How to fix docker: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket

Method1:

• Create the docker group.

sudo groupadd docker

• Add your user to the docker group.

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

• clean the docker cache
  

rm -rf ~/.docker

• update docker directory right
  

sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock


 

Method2:

You need to do the following:
To create the docker group and add your user:

• Create the docker group.

sudo groupadd docker

• Add your user to the docker group.

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

• You would need to override the docker permission

sudo chmod -R ugo+rw /var/run/docker.sock

sudo systemctl restart docker

sudo reboot / source ~/.bashrc

• Verify that you can run docker commands without sudo.

docker run hello-world