Permission denied -rw-r--r-- 1 root root ... Is this what you see when accessing files that were created from within your Docker container? The user of the container (root in the worst case) is completely different than the one on the host. The file permissions and ownership are all wrong. One frequent solution, is to “chown” your shared folder again and again. It’s tedious and there is a better way: read on to learn learn how to build, configure and run your Docker containers correctly...