moby/docs/reference/commandline/plugin_enable.md

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title: "plugin enable" description: "the plugin enable command description and usage"

keywords: "plugin, enable"

plugin enable

Usage:  docker plugin enable [OPTIONS] PLUGIN

Enable a plugin

Options:
      --help          Print usage
      --timeout int   HTTP client timeout (in seconds)

Enables a plugin. The plugin must be installed before it can be enabled, see docker plugin install.

The following example shows that the no-remove plugin is installed, but disabled:

$ docker plugin ls

NAME                  TAG                 DESCRIPTION                ENABLED
tiborvass/no-remove   latest              A test plugin for Docker   false

To enable the plugin, use the following command:

$ docker plugin enable tiborvass/no-remove

tiborvass/no-remove

$ docker plugin ls

NAME                  TAG                 DESCRIPTION                ENABLED
tiborvass/no-remove   latest              A test plugin for Docker   true

Related information

• plugin create
• plugin disable
• plugin inspect
• plugin install
• plugin ls
• plugin push
• plugin rm
• plugin set