[alexellisuk]

There is a misconception that Kaniko means non-root, but in order to build a container it has to work with layers which requires root.

Using Kaniko also doesn't solve for:

How do you run containers within that build in order to test them? How do you run KinD/K3s within that build to validate the containers e2e?

[goodoldneon]

The benefit of Kaniko (relative to Docker-in-Docker) is that you don't need to run in privileged mode.

We test our containers in our Dev environment after deploying

[alexellisuk]

That is a benefit over DIND and socket sharing, however it doesn't allow for running containers or K8s itself within a job. Any tooling that depends on running "docker" (the CLI) will also break or need adapting.

This also comes to mind: "root in the container is root on the host" - https://suraj.io/post/root-in-container-root-on-host/

[mattbillenstein]

This reminds me of the erlang map-reduce "did you just tell me to fuck myself" meme