Rootless containers using user namespaces was merged into runc in March 2017: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/774 https://github.com/opencontainers/

Rootless containers using user namespaces was merged into runc in March 2017: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/774 https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/774 A week ago Docker gained support for running dockerd as non-root: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/38050 https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/38050 And there is this project for running Kubernetes as non-root: https://github.com/rootless-containers/usernetes https://github.com/rootless-containers/usernetes