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 sample-volume-plugin plugin is installed, but disabled:

$ docker plugin ls

ID                  NAME                             TAG                 DESCRIPTION                ENABLED
69553ca1d123        tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin   latest              A test plugin for Docker   false

To enable the plugin, use the following command:

$ docker plugin enable tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin

tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin

$ docker plugin ls

ID                  NAME                             TAG                 DESCRIPTION                ENABLED
69553ca1d123        tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin   latest              A test plugin for Docker   true

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