DockerCLI/docs/reference/commandline/plugin_enable.md

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title: "plugin enable"
description: "the plugin enable command description and usage"
keywords: ["plugin, enable"]
advisory: "experimental"
---

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# plugin enable (experimental)

```markdown
Usage:  docker plugin enable PLUGIN

Enable a plugin

Options:
      --help   Print usage
```

Enables a plugin. The plugin must be installed before it can be enabled,
see [`docker plugin install`](plugin_install.md).


The following example shows that the `no-remove` plugin is installed,
but disabled:

```bash
$ docker plugin ls

NAME                  TAG                 DESCRIPTION                ENABLED
tiborvass/no-remove   latest              A test plugin for Docker   false
```

To enable the plugin, use the following command:

```bash
$ docker plugin enable tiborvass/no-remove

tiborvass/no-remove

$ docker plugin ls

NAME                  TAG                 DESCRIPTION                ENABLED
tiborvass/no-remove   latest              A test plugin for Docker   true
```

## Related information

* [plugin ls](plugin_ls.md)
* [plugin disable](plugin_disable.md)
* [plugin inspect](plugin_inspect.md)
* [plugin install](plugin_install.md)
* [plugin rm](plugin_rm.md)