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Avoiding the need for sudo when running docker commands
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- Name
- Yair Mark
- @yairmark
On Linux when running Docker commands you normally have to run them as sudo which can be annoying for example:
sudo docker ps
To avoid having to be sudo, add your user to the docker group as follows:
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami) && su - ${USER}
You will likely need to logout/restart your machine for this to take affect but once doing this you will not need to run docker commands as sudo instead just run them for example:
docker ps