# \[duplicate\] Plugins/docker unable to access docker socket

**URL:** <https://drone.discourse.group/t/duplicate-plugins-docker-unable-to-access-docker-socket/10268>\
**Category:** Drone Support\
**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/duplicate-plugins-docker-unable-to-access-docker-socket/10268 "2021-03-15T14:28:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![puckettgw](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/puckettgw/32/2873_2.png) [@puckettgw](https://drone.discourse.group/u/puckettgw)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/duplicate-plugins-docker-unable-to-access-docker-socket/10268/1 "2021-03-15T14:28:15Z")

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Hello,

I recently scaled-up my kube cluster and removed my old small nodes (this was a bad idea without testing Drone first, but let’s not go there for a moment)

Previously I had been using the plugins/docker image to build images and it worked flawlessly. However after I upgraded, now I’m getting the following error on all builds using plugins/docker:

- /usr/local/bin/dockerd --data-root /var/lib/docker --host=unix:///var/run/docker.sock

- /usr/local/bin/docker version  
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

It was my understanding that Drone runs the plugins/docker image as privileged by default, and thus I shouldn’t be having this issue. I’m sure there’s a simple answer but I can’t find it after many hours of googling and I’m starting to get stressed out. Can you help me figure out why this is happening? I haven’t changed my pipeline config at all.

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**Author:** ![puckettgw](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/puckettgw/32/2873_2.png) [@puckettgw](https://drone.discourse.group/u/puckettgw)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/duplicate-plugins-docker-unable-to-access-docker-socket/10268/2 "2021-03-15T14:32:23Z")

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For reference, here’s my yaml:

```auto

---
kind: pipeline
type: kubernetes
name: default

steps:
- name: Clone helm template
  image: alpine/git
  commands:
    - git submodule add -b rolling_deploy https://github.com/REDACTED
    - cp helm-template/Dockerfile .

- name: build
  image: plugins/docker
  settings:
    registry: registry.digitalocean.com
    repo: registry.digitalocean.com/REDACTED/${DRONE_REPO_NAME}
    tags:
      - ${DRONE_COMMIT_SHA:0:7}
      - ${DRONE_COMMIT_BRANCH}
      - latest
    force_tag: true
    use_cache: true
    username: 
      from_secret: username
    password:
      from_secret: password
  volumes:
    - name: docker
      path: /var/lib/docker   

- name: deploy
  image: alpine/helm
  commands:
    - helm list
    - apk add git
    - cd helm-template && find . -type f -exec sed -i "s/REPLACE/`echo ${DRONE_REPO_NAME}| tr '.' '-'`/g" {} \; && find . -type f -exec sed -i "s/DOMAIN/${DRONE_REPO_NAME}/g" {} \; && helm upgrade --install `echo ${DRONE_REPO_NAME}| tr '.' '-'` . -n wordpress -f ../override-values.yaml

image_pull_secrets:
   - dockerconfigjson
   
---
kind: secret
name: dockerconfigjson
get:
  path: secret/data/dockerconfigjson
  name: dockerconfigjson

---
kind: secret
name: username
get:
  path: secret/data/dockerrepo
  name: username

---
kind: secret
name: password
get:
  path: secret/data/dockerrepo
  name: password

```

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**Author:** ![bradrydzewski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/bradrydzewski/32/3513_2.png) [@bradrydzewski](https://drone.discourse.group/u/bradrydzewski)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/duplicate-plugins-docker-unable-to-access-docker-socket/10268/3 "2021-03-15T14:48:43Z")

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Moving conversation to existing thread at [[solved] K8S runner problem with volumes](http://discuss.harness.io/t/solved-k8s-runner-problem-with-volumes/8632)

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**Author:** ![bradrydzewski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/bradrydzewski/32/3513_2.png) [@bradrydzewski](https://drone.discourse.group/u/bradrydzewski)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/duplicate-plugins-docker-unable-to-access-docker-socket/10268/4 "2021-03-15T14:49:31Z")

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