diff --git a/handlers/main.yml b/handlers/main.yml
index fa26d2f..819b140 100644
--- a/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/handlers/main.yml
@@ -3,3 +3,9 @@
 #
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+- name: restart docker
+  service:
+    name: docker
+    state: restarted
+  ignore_errors: "{{ ansible_check_mode }}"