diff --git a/playbooks/groups/osbs-orchestrator-cluster.yml b/playbooks/groups/osbs-orchestrator-cluster.yml
index f10c98129c..b5f1b155bc 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/osbs-orchestrator-cluster.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/osbs-orchestrator-cluster.yml
@@ -703,6 +703,12 @@
         - systemctl daemon-reload
         - restart docker
 
+    - name: ensure docker is running
+      service:
+        name: docker
+        state: started
+        enabled: yes
+
     - name: set nrpe read access for osbs.conf for nagios monitoring
       acl: name={{ osbs_client_conf_path }} entity=nrpe etype=user permissions=r state=present