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CODE dial-unix-docker-sock Docker Engine & Compose Medium

Permission Denied: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock

This error occurs when a non-root user executes the `docker` CLI command without having read/write permissions on the UNIX domain socket `/var/run/docker.sock`, or when the Docker systemd daemon service is not running.

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