# Migrating telemetry and security agents from dockershim — Identify DaemonSets that depend on Docker Engine

> If a pod wants to make calls to the dockerd running on the node, the pod must either mount the filesystem containing the Docker daemon's privileged socket, as a mount the specific path of the Docker daemon's privileged socket directly, also as a volume.

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## Knowledge

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If a pod wants to make calls to the dockerd running on the node, the pod must either

mount the filesystem containing the Docker daemon's privileged socket, as a mount the specific path of the Docker daemon's privileged socket directly, also as a volume.

For example: on COS images, Docker exposes its Unix domain socket at /var/run/docker.sock This means that the pod spec will include a hostPath volume mount of /var/run/docker.sock.

Here's a sample shell script to find Pods that have a mount directly mapping the Docker socket. This script outputs the namespace and name of the pod. You can remove the grep '/var/run/docker.sock' to review other mounts.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces \
-o=jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{"\n"}{.metadata.namespace}{":\t"}{.metadata.name}{":\t"}{range .spec.volumes[*]}{.hostPath.path}{", "}{end}{end}' \
| sort \
| grep '/var/run/docker.sock'
```

There are alternative ways for a pod to access Docker on the host. For instance, the parent directory /var/run may be mounted instead of the full path (like in this example). The script above only detects the most common uses.

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