Damn, that was a long, drawn out title….

Basics:

• As of this writing, I’m running TrueNAS 12.2

• While I really like TrueNAS, TrueNAS/FreeNAS doesn't support Docker containers.

• The TrueNAS team is working on TrueNAS SCALE, which is Linux-based, and support Docker containers, but it’s still in alpha.

• Once TrueNAS …

While testing out TrueNAS SCALE, I wanted to do some Docker-ing, and following best-practices, I tried to configure non-root access to the Docker daemon.

Fail !

I had added my username to the existing docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

But I was still unable to use Docker, unless I was root:

docker ps
Got …

By default Docker needs to be run as the root user.

Not practical or advisable in a production, or shared system to be consistently logged in as root (think running with scissors).

Out of the box, attempting to run Docker as a non-root user gets this error:

whoami
tom

docker run hello-world
docker: Got permission …

Doing some lab testing, and needed to add another interface on an Ubuntu server virtual machine.

Quickly added it via the host (TrueNAS), but it came unconfigured and uninitialized.

The interface is in a down state, so it doesn't show up in ifconfig without using a switch:

ifconfig
enp0s4: flags=4163< …

About the only Windows (any version) I use is in a virtual machine, and that's not that often.

Windows 10 by default has auto download/auto update configured.

When a few months (or longer) goes by and I need a quick test/check done on a Windows box, the system quickly appears to lock up downloading and cramming the …

Years ago, I soft-modded my Nintendo Wii, as I had a few games that the DVD got scratched up, and was pretty pissed at having to buy another copy.

After soft-modding the Wii, I could backup my DVDs to an external USB hard drive and put the physical DVD away from little smudgy, scratchy hands.

Added bonus of …