Docker related issues

[goodoldme]

I have a couple of minor docker issues everytime I upgrade.

1. influxdb container does not have the user: "${PWD_USER:-1000:1000}" specified in powerwall.yml. Not sure if this is by design. This is causing all files being created as root, which in turn causes my backups to fail.
2. I run Powerwall-Dashboard in a separate docker network (powerwall-net).

I manually update powerwall.yml to fix these after an upgrade. Wondering if there's a better way to do this

[jasonacox]

We could add it but we would need to add logic to the upgrade script to fix permission issues with older install (would require sudo). Can you share the changes you make to powerwall.yml?

[goodoldme]

Only the first one - user: "${PWD_USER:-1000:1000}" to influxdb container. Without it, influxdb creates the files as root, which in turn is causing issues with my backups. As the user directive is not used for influxdb, wanted to check if its meant to run as root. Could you please advise?

[jasonacox]

No, this is really a bug we have had since the beginning. The original powerwall.yml didn't have any user params and we added them tot he ones that didn't write data. To make this change, we would need to add logic to upgrade.sh so that when it updates, it resets the permissions on files in influxdb to the right user id before it runs the update. It will require sudo access (we can prompt the user for sudo). I'm trying to think of the edge cases that would break.

Current workaround is for users to have root run the backup jobs.

[goodoldme]

Thanks, @jasonacox. I'll take a look at the upgrade script and see if I can figure out a solution for this.