Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix var run docker sock Is the docker daemon running

Question

Hi Team,

I am trying to add one manager in Docker swarm. But it is showing me the below error.

$ docker swarm join --token xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx33m7g3xfg8o0gyl1rgkxkliq8kq2ov-bf2inz84bhwbdzp9ddvxrbfoi 172.31.11.98:2377
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

It seems the docker service is not running in your system. You need to start the docker service using the below command.

$ systemctl start docker