Docker: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock

Question

I am new to docker. I just tried to use docker in my local machine(Ubuntu 16.04) with Jenkins.

I configured a new job with below pipeline script.

Answer 1

I added the jenkins user to root group and restarted the jenkins and it started working.

sudo usermod -a -G root jenkins
sudo service jenkins restart