Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is the docker daemon running on this host?

Jason De Paola
Jason De Paola
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Author: Jason De Paola

Date: April 18, 2024

Audience: Everyone

Environmental details: Self-hosted

Summary: 

Docker commands (e.g., docker ps) result in errors like below:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Solution:

This usually is due to the command being run as 'root user' or the user not having permissions on /var/run/docker.sock
Try running the command as "sudo" and using the account docker was installed with.

Additional Documentation

See the Docker community guide here, which discusses this topic.

 

 

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