Permission Denied While Trying to Connect to the Docker Daemon Socket
January 7, 2022 - 3 mins read time - 497 words - garrardkitchen
docker,
linux,
github actions,
GHA,
self-hosted runner,
dotnet,
Azure Container Registry,
acr,
containers,
pods
Out of the blue today, my first day back after Christmas break, I got this when running a GH Actions Workflow on one of our Self-Hosted Linux Runners 😱: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get “http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/containers/json": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied We have several GitHub Self-Hosted Runners running on Linux and Windows O/S that produce, amongst other artefacts, Linux and Windows images. ...