[Java]feat: Run auto-instrumentation init container as non-root user#1368
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Could you confirm the behavior when USER 65534:65534 can copy the ADOT jar file during initContainer phase without permission issue? My understanding is that K8s emptyDir volumes default to root:root 0755, so the init container may not be able to write javaagent.jar to the shared volume which would affect existing customers. I'd like we can confirm this. Thanks
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Problem
Customers enforcing
runAsNonRoot: truevia Pod Security Standards cannot use ADOT auto-instrumentation. Kubernetes checks the image metadata for a USER directive, finds none (defaults to UID 0 / root), and rejects the pod with:Error: container has runAsNonRoot and image will run as rootSummary
Enables customers using the Kubernetes Restricted Pod Security Standard to use ADOT auto-instrumentation
Without this change, customers enforcing runAsNonRoot: true at the namespace or pod level cannot use ADOT auto-instrumentation because Kubernetes rejects the init container with:
container has runAsNonRoot and image will run as rootFollows the upstream OTel Operator fix (open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator#2272)
Changes
Add
USER 65534:65534to the auto-instrumentation Dockerfile so the init container runs as non-root by defaultTesting
Validated on EKS cluster (us-east-1, EKS v1.34.6) with CW Observability add-on v5.3.1
For more in-depth analysis please see Test Results
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