You can not install anything that requires root access. Sometimes you can workaround by installing things to your app-root/data directory.
Installing Citadel on Openshift
Solution
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OCP uses SCC which by default would be responsible to allocate random UID's for your applications pods, however, incase of particular apps needing specific UID or root as in your case, we can use SCC ANYUID instead of default RESTRICTED SCC. However, this is only possible to be done with cluster-admin privileges.
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