AWS SAM: Build Failed Error: Docker is unreachable. Docker needs to be running to build inside a container

Question

Im running AWS SAM and using sam build --use-container then get the following error.

Starting Build inside a container Building function 'SamTutorialFunction Build Failed Error: Docker is unreachable. Docker needs to be running to build inside a container

I run sudo service docker start before and still get the same error.

Answer 1

sudo ln -s "$HOME/.docker/run/docker.sock" /var/run/docker.sock

work for me