diff --git a/pkg/drivers/kic/oci/network_create.go b/pkg/drivers/kic/oci/network_create.go
index cde14b2b05..d12e56f09b 100644
--- a/pkg/drivers/kic/oci/network_create.go
+++ b/pkg/drivers/kic/oci/network_create.go
@@ -172,8 +172,12 @@ type networkInspect struct {
 }
 
 var dockerInsepctGetter = func(name string) (*RunResult, error) {
-	cmd := exec.Command(Docker, "network", "inspect", name, "--format", `{"Name": "{{.Name}}","Driver": "{{.Driver}}","Subnet": "{{range .IPAM.Config}}{{.Subnet}}{{end}}","Gateway": "{{range .IPAM.Config}}{{.Gateway}}{{end}}","MTU": {{if (index .Options "com.docker.network.driver.mtu")}}{{(index .Options "com.docker.network.driver.mtu")}}{{else}}0{{end}},{{$first := true}} "ContainerIPs": [{{range $k,$v := .Containers }}{{if $first}}{{$first = false}}{{else}}, {{end}}"{{$v.IPv4Address}}"{{end}}]}`)
+	// hack -- 'support ancient versions of docker again (template parsing issue) #10362' and resolve 'Template parsing error: template: :1: unexpected "=" in operand' / 'exit status 64'
+	// note: docker v18.09.7 and older use go v1.10.8 and older, whereas support for '=' operator in go templates came in go v1.11
+	cmd := exec.Command(Docker, "network", "inspect", name, "--format", `{"Name": "{{.Name}}","Driver": "{{.Driver}}","Subnet": "{{range .IPAM.Config}}{{.Subnet}}{{end}}","Gateway": "{{range .IPAM.Config}}{{.Gateway}}{{end}}","MTU": {{if (index .Options "com.docker.network.driver.mtu")}}{{(index .Options "com.docker.network.driver.mtu")}}{{else}}0{{end}}, "ContainerIPs": [{{range $k,$v := .Containers }}"{{$v.IPv4Address}}",{{end}}]}`)
 	rr, err := runCmd(cmd)
+	// remove extra ',' after the last element in the ContainerIPs slice
+	rr.Stdout = *bytes.NewBuffer(bytes.ReplaceAll(rr.Stdout.Bytes(), []byte(",]"), []byte("]")))
 	return rr, err
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/docker/docker.go b/pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/docker/docker.go
index 70603efce8..6639cea221 100644
--- a/pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/docker/docker.go
+++ b/pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/docker/docker.go
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ func status() registry.State {
 	}
 
 	klog.Infof("docker version: %s", o)
-	if s := checkDockerVersion(string(o)); s.Error != nil {
+	if s := checkDockerVersion(strings.TrimSpace(string(o))); s.Error != nil { // remove '\n' from o at the end
 		return s
 	}