Hi jason10,
I’m interested in how you got your udev rules to work within a docker container. When I try echoing the rule like you’ve suggested I get an error that the /etc/udev/rules.d directory doesn’t exist.
I’m working on a project involving several containers that need to be able to communicate with hardware connected to my Ubuntu 18.04 host. I have set up udev rules to give my hardware aliases when they are connected to ensure that the path to the hardware will never change.
I can get the containers the see and communicate with the HW via the udev alias using a device tag in my docker-compose file. But if the containers are brought up before the hardware is powered on they will error out saying that a device with my alias doesn’t exist. I’m trying to design the containers to be robust enough to come up, wait for the hw to be connected, open a session with it, and even be able to recover if it is ever disconnected.
If I set the containers to be privileged instead of using a device tag, I can communicate with the hardware using their non-aliased paths (ttyUSB0 etc.), but when I try to open a session with the udev alias I created it can’t find the device.
Is there a way to communicate with a device’s udev alias from a container without using a device tag? Or is there a way to recover from the container crashing when the path in the device tag isn’t found?
Your solution looks like it may be what I’m looking for but I haven’t gotten it to work so far.
Thanks!