diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1187-docker.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1187-docker.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83794875
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/1187-docker.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "Docker CLI based modules - work around bug in Docker 29.0.0 that caused a breaking change in ``docker version --format json`` output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/issues/1185, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/1187)."
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/common_cli.py b/plugins/module_utils/common_cli.py
index ae175f2f..4d1c032d 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/common_cli.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/common_cli.py
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ class AnsibleDockerClientBase(object):
         self._info = None
 
         if needs_api_version:
-            if not isinstance(self._version.get('Server'), dict) or not isinstance(self._version['Server'].get('ApiVersion'), string_types):
+            api_version_string = self._version["Server"].get("ApiVersion") or self._version["Server"].get("APIVersion")
+            if not isinstance(self._version.get('Server'), dict) or not isinstance(api_version_string, string_types):
                 self.fail('Cannot determine Docker Daemon information. Are you maybe using podman instead of docker?')
-            self.docker_api_version_str = to_native(self._version['Server']['ApiVersion'])
+            self.docker_api_version_str = to_native(api_version_string)
             self.docker_api_version = LooseVersion(self.docker_api_version_str)
             min_docker_api_version = min_docker_api_version or '1.25'
             if self.docker_api_version < LooseVersion(min_docker_api_version):