Note that although your specific Python web application when run will run as the non root user www-data, the Apache server itself will initially start up as the root user. Some Docker runtime environments however may be set up so as to prohibit you running your container as the root user and require a non root user from the outset.
But in my container, I see the following processes running under root and whiskey:
Pulled from README:
But in my container, I see the following processes running under
root
andwhiskey
:Did I misunderstand where the user
www-data
should be present?