KPS - How can I connect inside a container as root?
Procedure to connect as root on a KPS container
With our KPS, the best way to connect into a container is to deploy a Portainer on the KPS instance.
Create a portainer container
Go into the app store
Search for Portainer

Deploy the Portainer service
Configure Portainer container
Enable Websocket support in HTTP Settings of the application configuration
Save & Restart the app
Wait 60 seconds for the service to restart
Enable HTTPS and add your custom domain in HTTP Settings of the application configuration

Connect to Portainer and ssh into a container
Go to you portainer web server url
Create your admin credentials for portainer

Go to Home and Click on Live connect on local
In the left menu, navigate to containers
Use the shell quick action to connect to the container of your choice

Use the correct Command ans User, try first with /bin/bash and if it is not working try /bin/sh. Use the user of your choice, if you require privileged in the container use root
Connect to the container


Updated on: 09/11/2024
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