# Docker privileged containers

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-privileged-containers/16142>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 8, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-privileged-containers/16142 "2014-09-08T08:07:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Abed\_Halawi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Abed\_Halawi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Abed_Halawi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-privileged-containers/16142/1 "2014-09-08T08:07:07Z")

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I am using a playbook task to run a docker containers, it’s running correctly except that it is not running with the `--privileged` option although I am choosing `privileged=yes`:

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-privileged-containers/16142/2 "2014-09-08T21:38:48Z")

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Can you share the output of ansible --version ?

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**Author:** ![Alvaro\_Gil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Alvaro\_Gil](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alvaro_Gil)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-privileged-containers/16142/3 "2016-08-01T14:53:31Z")

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Same here with `docker_container`, completely ignores `privileged: true`.