Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more. To use docker as a limited user, add your user to the 'docker' group: # usermod -a -G docker The group should be created upon installing the package, if it does not already exist. Adding the user to the group will require logging out and back in and also restarting docker daemon.