If you need a container to be mutable for a while, you can. Mount an NFS volume and run from there. You can even checkout your code, edit in vim and re-deploy.

If you need a container to be mutable for a while, you can. Mount an NFS volume and run from there. You can even checkout your code, edit in vim and re-deploy. Crazy talk for production of course, but if you need it, it is possible. Basically it is not that far off from running a binary on a server if you need it to be.