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NAME
dockerd - Enable daemon mode
SYNOPSIS
dockerd [--add-runtime[=[]]] [--allow-nondistributable-artifacts[=[]]] [--api-cors-
header=[=API-CORS-HEADER]] [--authorization-plugin[=[]]] [-b|--bridge[=BRIDGE]]
[--bip[=BIP]] [--cgroup-parent[=[]]] [--config-file[=path]] [--containerd[=SOCKET-PATH]]
[--data-root[=/var/lib/docker]] [-D|--debug] [--default-cgroupns-mode[=host]] [--default-
gateway[=DEFAULT-GATEWAY]] [--default-gateway-v6[=DEFAULT-GATEWAY-V6]] [--default-address-
pool[=DEFAULT-ADDRESS-POOL]] [--default-runtime[=runc]] [--default-ipc-mode=MODE]
[--default-shm-size[=64MiB]] [--default-ulimit[=[]]] [--dns[=[]]] [--dns-opt[=[]]] [--dns-
search[=[]]] [--exec-opt[=[]]] [--exec-root[=/var/run/docker]] [--experimental[=false]]
[--fixed-cidr[=FIXED-CIDR]] [--fixed-cidr-v6[=FIXED-CIDR-V6]] [-G|--group[=docker]]
[-H|--host[=[]]] [--help] [--http-proxy[""]] [--https-proxy[""]] [--icc[=true]]
[--init[=false]] [--init-path[=""]] [--insecure-registry[=[]]] [--ip[=0.0.0.0]] [--ip-
forward[=true]] [--ip-masq[=true]] [--iptables[=true]] [--ipv6] [--isolation[=default]]
[-l|--log-level[=info]] [--label[=[]]] [--live-restore[=false]] [--log-driver[=json-file]]
[--log-opt[=map[]]] [--mtu[=0]] [--max-concurrent-downloads[=3]] [--max-concurrent-
uploads[=5]] [--max-download-attempts[=5]] [--no-proxy[""]] [--node-generic-
resources[=[]]] [-p|--pidfile[=/var/run/docker.pid]] [--raw-logs] [--registry-mirror[=[]]]
[-s|--storage-driver[=STORAGE-DRIVER]] [--seccomp-profile[=SECCOMP-PROFILE-PATH]]
[--selinux-enabled] [--shutdown-timeout[=15]] [--storage-opt[=[]]] [--swarm-default-
advertise-addr[=IP|INTERFACE]] [--tls] [--tlscacert[=~/.docker/ca.pem]]
[--tlscert[=~/.docker/cert.pem]] [--tlskey[=~/.docker/key.pem]] [--tlsverify] [--userland-
proxy[=true]] [--userland-proxy-path[=""]] [--userns-remap[=default]] [--validate]
DESCRIPTION
dockerd is used for starting the Docker daemon (i.e., to command the daemon to manage
images, containers etc). So dockerd is a server, as a daemon.
To run the Docker daemon you can specify dockerd. You can check the daemon options using
dockerd --help. Daemon options should be specified after the dockerd keyword in the
following format.
dockerd [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--add-runtime=[]
Runtimes can be registered with the daemon either via the configuration file or using
the --add-runtime command line argument.
The following is an example adding 2 runtimes via the configuration:
{
"default-runtime": "runc",
"runtimes": {
"runc": {
"path": "runc"
},
"custom": {
"path": "/usr/local/bin/my-runc-replacement",
"runtimeArgs": [
"--debug"
]
}
}
}
This is the same example via the command line:
$ sudo dockerd --add-runtime runc=runc --add-runtime custom=/usr/local/bin/my-runc-replacement
Note: defining runtime arguments via the command line is not supported.
--allow-nondistributable-artifacts=[]
Push nondistributable artifacts to the specified registries.
List can contain elements with CIDR notation to specify a whole subnet.
This option is useful when pushing images containing nondistributable
artifacts to a registry on an air-gapped network so hosts on that network can
pull the images without connecting to another server.
Warning: Nondistributable artifacts typically have restrictions on how
and where they can be distributed and shared. Only use this feature to push
artifacts to private registries and ensure that you are in compliance with
any terms that cover redistributing nondistributable artifacts.
--api-cors-header=""
Set CORS headers in the Engine API. Default is cors disabled. Give urls like
"http://foo, http://bar, ...". Give "*" to allow all.
--authorization-plugin=""
Set authorization plugins to load
-b, --bridge=""
Attach containers to a pre-existing network bridge; use 'none' to disable
container networking
--bip=""
Use the provided CIDR notation address for the dynamically created bridge
(docker0); Mutually exclusive of -b
--cgroup-parent=""
Set parent cgroup for all containers. Default is "/docker" for fs cgroup
driver and "system.slice" for systemd cgroup driver.
--config-file="/etc/docker/daemon.json"
Specifies the JSON file path to load the configuration from. Default is
/etc/docker/daemon.json.
--containerd=""
Path to containerd socket.
--data-root=""
Path to the directory used to store persisted Docker data such as
configuration for resources, swarm cluster state, and filesystem data for
images, containers, and local volumes. Default is /var/lib/docker.
-D, --debug=true|false
Enable debug mode. Default is false.
--default-cgroupns-mode="host|private"
Set the default cgroup namespace mode for newly created containers. The argument
can either be host or private. If unset, this defaults to host on cgroup v1,
or private on cgroup v2.
--default-gateway=""
IPv4 address of the container default gateway; this address must be part of
the bridge subnet (which is defined by -b or --bip)
--default-gateway-v6=""
IPv6 address of the container default gateway
--default-address-pool=""
Default address pool from which IPAM driver selects a subnet for the networks.
Example: base=172.30.0.0/16,size=24 will set the default
address pools for the selected scope networks to {172.30.[0-255].0/24}
--default-runtime="runtime"
Set default runtime if there're more than one specified by --add-runtime.
--default-ipc-mode="private|shareable"
Set the default IPC mode for newly created containers. The argument
can either be private or shareable.
--default-shm-size=size
Set the daemon-wide default shm size for containers. Default is 64MiB.
--default-ulimit=[]
Default ulimits for containers.
--dns=""
Force Docker to use specific DNS servers.
--dns-opt=""
DNS options to use.
--dns-search=[]
DNS search domains to use.
--exec-opt=[]
Set runtime execution options. See RUNTIME EXECUTION OPTIONS.
--exec-root=""
Path to use as the root of the Docker execution state files. Default is
/var/run/docker.
--experimental=""
Enable the daemon experimental features.
--fixed-cidr=""
IPv4 subnet for fixed IPs (e.g., 10.20.0.0/16); this subnet must be nested in
the bridge subnet (which is defined by -b or --bip).
--fixed-cidr-v6=""
IPv6 subnet for global IPv6 addresses (e.g., 2a00:1450::/64)
-G, --group=""
Group to assign the unix socket specified by -H when running in daemon mode.
use '' (the empty string) to disable setting of a group. Default is docker.
-H, --host=[unix:///var/run/docker.sock]: tcp://[host:port] to bind or
unix://[/path/to/socket] to use.
The socket(s) to bind to in daemon mode specified using one or more
tcp://host:port, unix:///path/to/socket, fd://* or fd://socketfd.
--help
Print usage statement
--http-proxy""
Proxy URL for HTTP requests unless overridden by NoProxy.
--https-proxy""
Proxy URL for HTTPS requests unless overridden by NoProxy.
--icc=true|false
Allow unrestricted inter-container and Docker daemon host communication. If
disabled, containers can still be linked together using the --link option
(see docker-run(1)). Default is true.
--init
Run an init process inside containers for signal forwarding and process
reaping.
--init-path
Path to the docker-init binary.
--insecure-registry=[]
Enable insecure registry communication, i.e., enable un-encrypted and/or
untrusted communication.
List of insecure registries can contain an element with CIDR notation to
specify a whole subnet. Insecure registries accept HTTP and/or accept HTTPS
with certificates from unknown CAs.
Enabling --insecure-registry is useful when running a local registry.
However, because its use creates security vulnerabilities it should ONLY be
enabled for testing purposes. For increased security, users should add their
CA to their system's list of trusted CAs instead of using
--insecure-registry.
--ip=""
Default IP address to use when binding container ports. Default is 0.0.0.0.
--ip-forward=true|false
Enables IP forwarding on the Docker host. The default is true. This flag
interacts with the IP forwarding setting on your host system's kernel. If
your system has IP forwarding disabled, this setting enables it. If your
system has IP forwarding enabled, setting this flag to false
has no effect.
This setting will also enable IPv6 forwarding if you have both
--ip-forward=true and --fixed-cidr-v6 set. Note that this may reject
Router Advertisements and interfere with the host's existing IPv6
configuration. For more information, please consult the documentation about
"Advanced Networking - IPv6".
--ip-masq=true|false
Enable IP masquerading for bridge's IP range. Default is true.
--iptables=true|false
Enable Docker's addition of iptables rules. Default is true.
--ipv6=true|false
Enable IPv6 support. Default is false. Docker will create an IPv6-enabled
bridge with address fe80::1 which will allow you to create IPv6-enabled
containers. Use together with --fixed-cidr-v6 to provide globally routable
IPv6 addresses. IPv6 forwarding will be enabled if not used with
--ip-forward=false. This may collide with your host's current IPv6
settings. For more information please consult the documentation about
"Advanced Networking - IPv6".
--isolation="default"
Isolation specifies the type of isolation technology used by containers.
Note that the default on Windows server is process, and the default on
Windows client is hyperv. Linux only supports default.
-l, --log-level="debug|info|warn|error|fatal"
Set the logging level. Default is info.
--label="[]"
Set key=value labels to the daemon (displayed in docker info)
--live-restore=false
Enable live restore of running containers when the daemon starts so that they
are not restarted. This option is applicable only for docker daemon running
on Linux host.
--log-driver="json-file|syslog|journald|gelf|fluentd|awslogs|splunk|etwlogs|gcplogs|none"
Default driver for container logs. Default is json-file.
Warning: docker logs command works only for json-file logging driver.
--log-opt=[]
Logging driver specific options.
--mtu=0
Set the containers network mtu. Default is 0.
--max-concurrent-downloads=3
Set the max concurrent downloads. Default is 3.
--max-concurrent-uploads=5
Set the max concurrent uploads. Default is 5.
--max-download-attempts=5
Set the max download attempts for each pull. Default is 5.
--no-proxy="""
Comma-separated values specifying hosts that should be excluded from proxying.
--node-generic-resources=[]
Advertise user-defined resource. Default is [].
Use this if your swarm cluster has some nodes with custom
resources (e.g: NVIDIA GPU, SSD, ...) and you need your services to land on
nodes advertising these resources.
Usage example: --node-generic-resources "NVIDIA-GPU=UUID1"
--node-generic-resources "NVIDIA-GPU=UUID2"
-p, --pidfile="path"
Path to use for daemon PID file. Default is /var/run/docker.pid.
--raw-logs
Output daemon logs in full timestamp format without ANSI coloring. If this
flag is not set, the daemon outputs condensed, colorized logs if a terminal
is detected, or full ("raw") output otherwise.
--registry-mirror=://
Prepend a registry mirror to be used for image pulls. May be specified
multiple times.
-s, --storage-driver=""
Force the Docker runtime to use a specific storage driver.
--seccomp-profile=""
Path to seccomp profile.
--selinux-enabled=true|false
Enable selinux support. Default is false.
--shutdown-timeout=seconds
Set the shutdown timeout value in seconds. Default is 15.
--storage-opt=[]
Set storage driver options. See STORAGE DRIVER OPTIONS.
--swarm-default-advertise-addr=IP|INTERFACE
Set default address or interface for swarm to advertise as its
externally-reachable address to other cluster members. This can be a
hostname, an IP address, or an interface such as eth0. A port cannot be
specified with this option.
--tls=true|false
Use TLS; implied by --tlsverify. Default is false.
--tlscacert=~/.docker/ca.pem
Trust certs signed only by this CA.
--tlscert=~/.docker/cert.pem
Path to TLS certificate file.
--tlskey=~/.docker/key.pem
Path to TLS key file.
--tlsverify=true|false
Use TLS and verify the remote (daemon: verify client, client: verify daemon).
Default is false.
--userland-proxy=true|false
Rely on a userland proxy implementation for inter-container and
outside-to-container loopback communications. Default is true.
--userland-proxy-path=""
Path to the userland proxy binary.
--userns-remap=default|uid:gid|user:group|user|uid
Enable user namespaces for containers on the daemon. Specifying "default"
will cause a new user and group to be created to handle UID and GID range
remapping for the user namespace mappings used for contained processes.
Specifying a user (or uid) and optionally a group (or gid) will cause the
daemon to lookup the user and group's subordinate ID ranges for use as the
user namespace mappings for contained processes.
--validate
Validate daemon configuration and exit.
STORAGE DRIVER OPTIONS
Docker uses storage backends (known as "graphdrivers" in the Docker internals) to create
writable containers from images. Many of these backends use operating system level
technologies and can be configured.
Specify options to the storage backend with --storage-opt flags. The backends that
currently take options are devicemapper, zfs and btrfs. Options for devicemapper are
prefixed with dm., options for zfs start with zfs., and options for btrfs start with
btrfs..
Specifically for devicemapper, the default is a "loopback" model which requires no pre-
configuration, but is extremely inefficient. Do not use it in production.
To make the best use of Docker with the devicemapper backend, you must have a recent
version of LVM. Use lvm(8) to create a thin pool; for more information, see lvmthin(7).
Then, use --storage-opt dm.thinpooldev to tell the Docker engine to use that pool for
allocating images and container snapshots.
Devicemapper options
dm.thinpooldev
Specifies a custom block storage device to use for the thin pool.
If using a block device for device mapper storage, it is best to use lvm to create and
manage the thin-pool volume. This volume is then handed to Docker to exclusively create
snapshot volumes needed for images and containers.
Managing the thin-pool outside of Engine makes for the most feature-rich method of having
Docker utilize device mapper thin provisioning as the backing storage for Docker
containers. The highlights of the lvm-based thin-pool management feature include:
automatic or interactive thin-pool resize support, dynamically changing thin-pool
features, automatic thinp metadata checking when lvm activates the thin-pool, etc.
As a fallback if no thin pool is provided, loopback files are created. Loopback is very
slow, but can be used without any pre-configuration of storage. It is strongly recommended
that you do not use loopback in production. Ensure your Engine daemon has a --storage-opt
dm.thinpooldev argument provided.
Example use:
$ dockerd \
--storage-opt dm.thinpooldev=/dev/mapper/thin-pool
dm.directlvm_device
As an alternative to manually creating a thin pool as above, Docker can automatically
configure a block device for you.
Example use:
$ dockerd \
--storage-opt dm.directlvm_device=/dev/xvdf
dm.thinp_percent
Sets the percentage of passed in block device to use for storage.
Example:
$ sudo dockerd \
--storage-opt dm.thinp_percent=95
dm.thinp_metapercent
Sets the percentage of the passed in block device to use for metadata storage.
Example:
$ sudo dockerd \
--storage-opt dm.thinp_metapercent=1
dm.thinp_autoextend_threshold
Sets the value of the percentage of space used before lvm attempts to autoextend the
available space [100 = disabled]
Example:
$ sudo dockerd \
--storage-opt dm.thinp_autoextend_threshold=80
dm.thinp_autoextend_percent
Sets the value percentage value to increase the thin pool by when lvm attempts to
autoextend the available space [100 = disabled]
Example:
$ sudo dockerd \
--storage-opt dm.thinp_autoextend_percent=20
dm.basesize
Specifies the size to use when creating the base device, which limits the size of images
and containers. The default value is 10G. Note, thin devices are inherently "sparse", so a
10G device which is mostly empty doesn't use 10 GB of space on the pool. However, the
filesystem will use more space for base images the larger the device is.
The base device size can be increased at daemon restart which will allow all future images
and containers (based on those new images) to be of the new base device size.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.basesize=50G
This will increase the base device size to 50G. The Docker daemon will throw an error if
existing base device size is larger than 50G. A user can use this option to expand the
base device size however shrinking is not permitted.
This value affects the system-wide "base" empty filesystem that may already be initialized
and inherited by pulled images. Typically, a change to this value requires additional
steps to take effect:
$ sudo service docker stop
$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker
$ sudo service docker start
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.basesize=20G
dm.fs
Specifies the filesystem type to use for the base device. The supported options are ext4
and xfs. The default is ext4.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.fs=xfs
dm.mkfsarg
Specifies extra mkfs arguments to be used when creating the base device.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt "dm.mkfsarg=-O ^has_journal"
dm.mountopt
Specifies extra mount options used when mounting the thin devices.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.mountopt=nodiscard
dm.use_deferred_removal
Enables use of deferred device removal if libdm and the kernel driver support the
mechanism.
Deferred device removal means that if device is busy when devices are being
removed/deactivated, then a deferred removal is scheduled on device. And devices
automatically go away when last user of the device exits.
For example, when a container exits, its associated thin device is removed. If that device
has leaked into some other mount namespace and can't be removed, the container exit still
succeeds and this option causes the system to schedule the device for deferred removal. It
does not wait in a loop trying to remove a busy device.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.use_deferred_removal=true
dm.use_deferred_deletion
Enables use of deferred device deletion for thin pool devices. By default, thin pool
device deletion is synchronous. Before a container is deleted, the Docker daemon removes
any associated devices. If the storage driver can not remove a device, the container
deletion fails and daemon returns.
Error deleting container: Error response from daemon: Cannot destroy container
To avoid this failure, enable both deferred device deletion and deferred device removal on
the daemon.
dockerd --storage-opt dm.use_deferred_deletion=true --storage-opt
dm.use_deferred_removal=true
With these two options enabled, if a device is busy when the driver is deleting a
container, the driver marks the device as deleted. Later, when the device isn't in use,
the driver deletes it.
In general it should be safe to enable this option by default. It will help when
unintentional leaking of mount point happens across multiple mount namespaces.
dm.loopdatasize
Note: This option configures devicemapper loopback, which should not be used in
production.
Specifies the size to use when creating the loopback file for the "data" device which is
used for the thin pool. The default size is 100G. The file is sparse, so it will not
initially take up this much space.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.loopdatasize=200G
dm.loopmetadatasize
Note: This option configures devicemapper loopback, which should not be used in
production.
Specifies the size to use when creating the loopback file for the "metadata" device which
is used for the thin pool. The default size is 2G. The file is sparse, so it will not
initially take up this much space.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.loopmetadatasize=4G
dm.datadev
(Deprecated, use dm.thinpooldev)
Specifies a custom blockdevice to use for data for a Docker-managed thin pool. It is
better to use dm.thinpooldev - see the documentation for it above for discussion of the
advantages.
dm.metadatadev
(Deprecated, use dm.thinpooldev)
Specifies a custom blockdevice to use for metadata for a Docker-managed thin pool. See
dm.datadev for why this is deprecated.
dm.blocksize
Specifies a custom blocksize to use for the thin pool. The default blocksize is 64K.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.blocksize=512K
dm.blkdiscard
Enables or disables the use of blkdiscard when removing devicemapper devices. This is
disabled by default due to the additional latency, but as a special case with loopback
devices it will be enabled, in order to re-sparsify the loopback file on image/container
removal.
Disabling this on loopback can lead to much faster container removal times, but it also
prevents the space used in /var/lib/docker directory from being returned to the system for
other use when containers are removed.
Example use: dockerd --storage-opt dm.blkdiscard=false
dm.override_udev_sync_check
By default, the devicemapper backend attempts to synchronize with the udev device manager
for the Linux kernel. This option allows disabling that synchronization, to continue even
though the configuration may be buggy.
To view the udev sync support of a Docker daemon that is using the devicemapper driver,
run:
$ docker info
[...]
Udev Sync Supported: true
[...]
When udev sync support is true, then devicemapper and udev can coordinate the activation
and deactivation of devices for containers.
When udev sync support is false, a race condition occurs between the devicemapper and udev
during create and cleanup. The race condition results in errors and failures. (For
information on these failures, see docker#4036
⟨https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/4036⟩)
To allow the docker daemon to start, regardless of whether udev sync is false, set
dm.override_udev_sync_check to true:
$ dockerd --storage-opt dm.override_udev_sync_check=true
When this value is true, the driver continues and simply warns you the errors are
happening.
Note: The ideal is to pursue a docker daemon and environment that does support
synchronizing with udev. For further discussion on this topic, see docker#4036
⟨https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/4036⟩. Otherwise, set this flag for migrating
existing Docker daemons to a daemon with a supported environment.
dm.min_free_space
Specifies the min free space percent in a thin pool require for new device creation to
succeed. This check applies to both free data space as well as free metadata space. Valid
values are from 0% - 99%. Value 0% disables free space checking logic. If user does not
specify a value for this option, the Engine uses a default value of 10%.
Whenever a new a thin pool device is created (during docker pull or during container
creation), the Engine checks if the minimum free space is available. If the space is
unavailable, then device creation fails and any relevant docker operation fails.
To recover from this error, you must create more free space in the thin pool to recover
from the error. You can create free space by deleting some images and containers from tge
thin pool. You can also add more storage to the thin pool.
To add more space to an LVM (logical volume management) thin pool, just add more storage
to the group container thin pool; this should automatically resolve any errors. If your
configuration uses loop devices, then stop the Engine daemon, grow the size of loop files
and restart the daemon to resolve the issue.
Example use:: dockerd --storage-opt dm.min_free_space=10%
dm.xfs_nospace_max_retries
Specifies the maximum number of retries XFS should attempt to complete IO when ENOSPC (no
space) error is returned by underlying storage device.
By default XFS retries infinitely for IO to finish and this can result in unkillable
process. To change this behavior one can set xfs_nospace_max_retries to e.g. 0 and XFS
will not retry IO after getting ENOSPC and will shutdown filesystem.
Example use:
$ sudo dockerd --storage-opt dm.xfs_nospace_max_retries=0
dm.libdm_log_level
Specifies the maxmimum libdm log level that will be forwarded to the dockerd log (as
specified by --log-level). This option is primarily intended for debugging problems
involving libdm. Using values other than the defaults may cause false-positive warnings to
be logged.
Values specified must fall within the range of valid libdm log levels. At the time of
writing, the following is the list of libdm log levels as well as their corresponding
levels when output by dockerd.
┌────────────┬───────┬─────────────┐
│libdm Level │ Value │ --log-level │
├────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│_LOG_FATAL │ 2 │ error │
├────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│_LOG_ERR │ 3 │ error │
├────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│_LOG_WARN │ 4 │ warn │
├────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│_LOG_NOTICE │ 5 │ info │
├────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│_LOG_INFO │ 6 │ info │
├────────────┼───────┼─────────────┤
│_LOG_DEBUG │ 7 │ debug │
└────────────┴───────┴─────────────┘
Example use:
$ sudo dockerd \
--log-level debug \
--storage-opt dm.libdm_log_level=7
ZFS options
zfs.fsname
Set zfs filesystem under which docker will create its own datasets. By default docker
will pick up the zfs filesystem where docker graph (/var/lib/docker) is located.
Example use: dockerd -s zfs --storage-opt zfs.fsname=zroot/docker
Btrfs options
btrfs.min_space
Specifies the minimum size to use when creating the subvolume which is used for
containers. If user uses disk quota for btrfs when creating or running a container with
--storage-opt size option, docker should ensure the size cannot be smaller than
btrfs.min_space.
Example use: docker daemon -s btrfs --storage-opt btrfs.min_space=10G
Access authorization
Docker's access authorization can be extended by authorization plugins that your
organization can purchase or build themselves. You can install one or more authorization
plugins when you start the Docker daemon using the --authorization-plugin=PLUGIN_ID
option.
dockerd --authorization-plugin=plugin1 --authorization-plugin=plugin2,...
The PLUGIN_ID value is either the plugin's name or a path to its specification file. The
plugin's implementation determines whether you can specify a name or path. Consult with
your Docker administrator to get information about the plugins available to you.
Once a plugin is installed, requests made to the daemon through the command line or
Docker's Engine API are allowed or denied by the plugin. If you have multiple plugins
installed, each plugin, in order, must allow the request for it to complete.
For information about how to create an authorization plugin, see access authorization
plugin ⟨https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_authorization/⟩ section in the
Docker extend section of this documentation.
RUNTIME EXECUTION OPTIONS
You can configure the runtime using options specified with the --exec-opt flag. All the
flag's options have the native prefix. A single native.cgroupdriver option is available.
The native.cgroupdriver option specifies the management of the container's cgroups. You
can only specify cgroupfs or systemd. If you specify systemd and it is not available, the
system errors out. If you omit the native.cgroupdriver option,cgroupfs is used on cgroup
v1 hosts, systemd is used on cgroup v2 hosts with systemd available.
This example sets the cgroupdriver to systemd:
$ sudo dockerd --exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd
Setting this option applies to all containers the daemon launches.
HISTORY
Sept 2015, Originally compiled by Shishir Mahajan shishir.mahajan@redhat.com
⟨mailto:shishir.mahajan@redhat.com⟩ based on docker.com source material and internal work.