diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ee0213de..ea9bf9c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1012,12 +1012,14 @@ This module supports:
 * Debian 8.0
 * Debian 9.0
 * Debian 10
-* RedHat 7.0
+* RedHat 7.0 - limited support available
 * Ubuntu 14.04
 * Ubuntu 16.04
 * Ubuntu 18.04
 * Windows Server 2016 (Docker Enterprise Edition only)
 
+On RedHat 7 the default docker package installs docker server version 1.13.1. The default docker.service uses the docker-storage-service in this version and creates /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage based on the container-storage-setup configuration and /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage-setup file. As the puppetlabs-docker module manages both the docker-storage and docker-storage-setup files it causes a conflict with the container-storage-setup forcing a docker service restart, therefore a workaround was included in the service manifest that disables the service restart on storage configuration changes for this version of docker on RedHat 7. As a side effect of these changes, storage configuration changes with this docker version on RedHat 7 are not picked up by default by the docker.service. 
+
 ## Development
 
 If you would like to contribute to this module, see the guidelines in [CONTRIBUTING.MD](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-docker/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
diff --git a/manifests/service.pp b/manifests/service.pp
index 0cee85c1..fc5b9fc3 100644
--- a/manifests/service.pp
+++ b/manifests/service.pp
@@ -356,12 +356,25 @@
     default: {}
   }
 
+  #workaround for docker 1.13 on RedHat 7
+  if $facts['docker_server_version']{
+    if $facts['os']['family'] == 'RedHat' and $facts['docker_server_version'] =~ /1\.13.+/{
+      $_skip_storage_config = true
+    } else {
+      $_skip_storage_config = false
+    }
+  } else {
+    $_skip_storage_config = false
+  }
+
   if $storage_config {
-    file { $storage_config:
-      ensure  => file,
-      force   => true,
-      content => template($storage_config_template),
-      notify  => $_manage_service,
+    unless $_skip_storage_config {
+      file { $storage_config:
+        ensure  => file,
+        force   => true, #force rewrite storage configuration 
+        content => template($storage_config_template),
+        notify  => $_manage_service,
+      }
     }
   }