Control and configure Docker with systemd Many Linux distributions use systemd to start the Docker daemon. This document shows a few examples of how to customize Docker’s settings. Starting the Docker daemon Once Docker is installed, you will need to start the Docker daemon. $ sudo systemctl start docker
# or on older distributions, you may need to use
$ sudo service docker start
If you want Docker to start at boot, you should also: $ sudo systemctl enable docker
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