It also fits in with Linux's general "permission isolation" model. Instead of running all the time as a privileged user, your day-to-day operation is as an unprivileged normal user which then can be escalated as needed. While you can run as root 24/7, this is highly unadvisable because it has the potential to go really wrong really fast. 2 days ago · Thanks Edit: I tried changing the permissions anyway. sock from the host without the :ro on the end as soon as I added that I was good [[email protected] ~]$ docker run hello-world docker: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unixI try to use a NFS volume in docker for sharing / accessing container state ... Ran the Docker ps from the Jenkins conatiner and listed the available Containers. But when triggering a job from Jenkins it fails withe the below error + docker run hello-world docker: Got permission denied while trying to connect I tried solution provided to add the user to the group but it still fails....API version: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix The Docker daemon can have performances issues while it is trying to retrieve logs for 30 seconds, increasing this value gives more time to the Docker daemon to reply to the Datadog Agent.