How to restart dockerd?

Question

Context

In my .devcontainer that, I run in GitHub Codespaces, I've installed minikube. Shortly after minikube start I get this message

Executing "docker container inspect minikube took an unusually long time: 10.566089734s*

Restarting the docker service may improve performance.

1. I'm using docker docker-in-docker feature.
2. The .devcontainer environment starts docker with dockerd cli.
3. systemctl is not present.

Question

I'd like to restart docker to improve performance. Is it possible to restart docker without stopping the docked process? Something like sudo systemctl restart docker but with dockerd?

Answer 1

To restart dockerd, restart the docker service itself. For example, sudo systemctl restart docker in ubuntu.