Docker : failed to get default registry endpoint from daemon, permission denied

If you are getting error while running docker commands by non root user like


Warning: failed to get default registry endpoint from daemon (Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.26/info: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied). Using system default: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.26/images/create?fromImage=alpine&tag=latest: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied


Add the non-root-user to group docker by updating /etc/group file or by running following command


usermod -aG docker non-root-user