Improved support for non-default users and advanced container artifact permission and ownership management capabilities

New Features

• Option to set permissions, user and group information for the artifacts included with the --include-* parameters.
• Option to overwrite the permissions and ownership info in the optimized image using the new --path-perms and path-perms-file parameters.

Improvements

• Option to run the containerized application using user and group information from the USER instruction.
• Ability to keep the permission and the ownership metadata for the artifacts copied to the optimized container image.
• Filter leftover PID files.
• UX enhancements for the containers created using Dockerfiles.
• Additional debugging information.

Bug Fixes

• Support for special install directories on Linux (to prevent failures when docker-slim is trying to save its state).

Binaries

Build them from source or download from a CDN location:

• Mac
• Linux
• Linux ARM