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Difference between PGID/PUID and GID/UID when setting up docker containers

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I'm new to Docker and I've seen that some scrips for running containerized software require to specify either of those to match certain user and group. So I was wondering what is the difference between both? Examples below to illustrate.

Jellyfin uses UID/GID pair:

docker run -d \
    --name="Jellyfin" \
    --restart=always \
    --network=host \
    -p 8096:8096 \
    -e UID=1000 \
    -e GID=1000 \
    -v /media:/media \
    -v $HOME/docker/jellyfin/config:/config \
    jellyfin/jellyfin:latest

While Calibre-web uses PUID/PGID set:

docker create --name=calibre-web --restart=always \
    -v ~/books:/books \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    -e PGID=1000 -e PUID=1000 \
    -p 8081:8083 \
    technosoft2000/calibre-web

While looking for info I even saw some random github repos that changed from the former to the later at some point; what's the difference between both options?


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