{"id":23336,"date":"2021-08-19T05:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=23336"},"modified":"2025-07-12T05:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:41:43","slug":"how-to-change-the-cgroup-driver-from-cgroupfs-systemd-in-docker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-change-the-cgroup-driver-from-cgroupfs-systemd-in-docker\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the cgroup driver from cgroupfs systemd in docker?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How to change the cgroup driver from cgroupfs to systemd in RHEL\/Centos?<\/li><li>How to change the cgroup driver from cgroupfs to systemd in Ubuntu<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"PHP\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"php\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-php\">Resolving the problem\nChange the Docker cgroup to systemd by editing the Docker service with the following command:\n\n$ systemctl status docker\nCheck following section \nLoaded: loaded (\/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)\n\n$ vi \/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/docker.service\nModify this line\nExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/dockerd -H fd:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ --containerd=\/run\/containerd\/containerd.sock<\/span>\nTo\nExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/dockerd -H fd:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ --containerd=\/run\/containerd\/containerd.sock --exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd<\/span>\n\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\">#Restart the Docker service by running the following command:<\/span>\n$ systemctl daemon-reload\n$ systemctl restart docker\n\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># Verify the cgroups driver to systemd<\/span>\n$ docker info\n<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">PHP<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">php<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_50842\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_48210\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_50842\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to change the cgroup driver from cgroupfs to systemd in RHEL\/Centos? How to change the cgroup driver from cgroupfs to systemd in Ubuntu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24213,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions\/24213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}