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What is Docker

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.

Source: What is Docker

Where to start

Basics – Docker, Containers, Hypervisors, CoreOS
Dive Into Docker: From “What is Docker?” to “Hello World” (60:25) by @nickjanetakis
Docker Curriculum: A comprehensive tutorial for getting started with Docker. Teaches how to use Docker and deploy dockerized apps on AWS with Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic Container Service.
Docker Documentation
Docker for all - Developers, Testers, DevOps, Product Owners + Videos ★63 ⏳1Y Docker Training Videos for all
Docker Jumpstart ★2746 ⏳2Y: a quick introduction
Docker Toolbox - Quick setup and launch of a Docker environment on older Mac (10.10 and below) and Windows (8.1 and below) systems. On newer systems it’s recommended to use the Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows.
Docker Training - Includes a free self-paced hands-on tutorial (free registration required or sign-in with DockerHub ID)
Katacoda: Learn Docker using Interactive Browser-Based Labs
Learn Docker ★67 ⏳2Y Full environment set up, screenshots, step-by-step tutorial and more resources (video, articles, cheat sheets) by @dwyl
Play With Docker - PWD is a great way to get started with Docker from beginner to advanced users. Docker runs directly in your browser.
Play With Moby - PWM is a web based Moby playground which allows you to try different components of the platform in seconds. It gives you the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the cloud where you can build and run Moby projects and even create clusters to experiment.
Practical Introduction to Container Terminology The landscape for container technologies is larger than just docker. Without a good handle on the terminology, It can be difficult to grasp the key differences between docker and (pick your favorites, CRI-O, rkt, lxc/lxd) or understand what the Open Container Initiative is doing to standardize container technology.

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Where to start (Windows)

A Comparative Study of Docker Engine on Windows Server vs Linux Platform Comparing the feature sets and implementations of Docker on Windows and Linux
Build And Run Your First Docker Windows Server Container Walkthrough installing Docker on Windows 10, building a Docker image and running a Windows container
Docker on Windows behind a firewall by @kaitoedter
Docker Reference Architecture: Modernizing Traditional .NET Framework Applications - You will learn to identify the types of .NET Framework applications that are good candidates for containerization, the “lift-and-shift” approach to containerization.
Docker with Microsoft SQL 2016 + ASP.NET Demonstration running ASP.NET and SQL Server workloads in Docker
Exploring ASP.NET Core with Docker in both Linux and Windows Containers Running ASP.NET Core apps in Linux and Windows containers, using Docker for Windows
Running a Legacy ASP.NET App in a Windows Container Steps for Dockerizing a legacy ASP.NET app and runnning as a Windows container
Windows Containers and Docker: The 101 - A 20-minute overview, using Docker to run PowerShell, ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET apps
Windows Containers Quick Start Overview of Windows containers, drilling down to Quick Starts for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

Projects

Moby = open source development
Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker CE.

Docker EE is on the same code base as Docker CE, so also built from Moby, with commercial components added, such as “docker data center / universal control plane”

Moby ★49330
Docker Images
Docker Compose ★12941 (Define and run multi-container applications with Docker)
Docker Machine ★4711 (Machine management for a container-centric world)
Docker Registry (The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content)
Docker Swarm ★5141 (Swarm: a Docker-native clustering system)

Container Operations

Container Composition

bocker ★69 ⏳1Y (2) - Write Dockerfile completely in Bash. Extensible and simple. –> Reusable by @icy
bocker ★5011 (1) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash by p8952
box ★220 - Build Dockerfile images with a mruby DSL, includes flattening and layer manipulation
Capitan ★16 ⏳1Y - Composable docker orchestration with added scripting support by @byrnedo.
compose_plantuml - Generate Plantuml graphs from docker-compose files by @funkwerk
Composerize ★132 - Convert docker run commands into docker-compose files
crowdr ★75 ⏳2Y - Tool for managing multiple Docker containers (docker-compose alternative) by @polonskiy
docker-compose-graphviz ★31 ⏳2Y - Turn a docker-compose.yml files into Graphviz .dot files by @abesto
draw-compose ★47 ⏳1Y - Utility to draw a schema of a docker compose by @Alexis-benoist
elsy ★38 - An opinionated, multi-language, build tool based on Docker and Docker Compose
habitus ★826 - A Build Flow Tool for Docker by @cloud66
Maestro ★615 ⏳4Y - Maestro provides the ability to easily launch, orchestrate and manage mulitiple Docker containers as single unit by @tascanini
percheron - Organise your Docker containers with muscle and intelligence by @ashmckenzie
plash ★24 - A container run and build engine - runs inside docker.
rocker-compose ★419 - Docker composition tool with idempotency features for deploying apps composed of multiple containers. By @grammarly
rocker ★1269 - Extended Dockerfile builder. Supports multiple FROMs, MOUNTS, templates, etc. by grammarly.
Stacker ★48 ⏳1Y - Docker Compose Templates. Stacker provides an abstraction layer over Docker Compose and a better DX (developer experience).
Zodiac ★177 ⏳2Y - A lightweight tool for easy deployment and rollback of dockerized applications. By @CenturyLinkLabs

Deployment and Infrastructure

blackfish - a CoreOS VM to build swarm clusters for Dev & Production by @DataMC
Centurion ★1706 - Centurion is a mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. It takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings. By @newrelic
Clocker ★427 - Clocker creates and manages a Docker cloud infrastructure. Clocker supports single-click deployments and runtime management of multi-node applications that run as containers distributed across multiple hosts, on both Docker and Marathon. It leverages Calico and Weave for networking and Brooklyn for application blueprints. By @brooklyncentral
Conduit ★99 ⏳1Y - Experimental deployment system for Docker by @ehazlett
depcon ★86 - Depcon is written in Go and allows you to easily deploy Docker containers to Apache Mesos/Marathon, Amazon ECS and Kubernetes. By @ContainX
deploy ★45 ⏳1Y - Git and Docker deployment tool. A middle ground between simple Docker composition tools and full blown cluster orchestration by @ttiny
dockit ★103 ⏳3Y - Do docker actions and Deploy gluster containers! By @humblec
gitkube ★1843 - Gitkube is a tool for building and deploying docker images on Kubernetes using git push. By @Hasura.
Grafeas ★545 - A common API for metadata about containers, from image and build details to security vulnerabilities. By Grafeas
Longshoreman ★426 ⏳3Y - Longshoreman automates application deployment using Docker. Just create a Docker repository (or use a service), configure the cluster using AWS or Digital Ocean (or whatever you like) and deploy applications using a Heroku-like CLI tool. By longshoreman

Monitoring

Axibase Collector - Axibase Collector streams performance counters, configuration changes and lifecycle events from the Docker engine(s) into Axibase Time Series Database for roll-up dashboards and integration with upstream monitoring systems.
cAdvisor ★7473 - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. Created by @Google
Docker-Alertd ★66 - Monitor and send alerts based on docker container resource usage/statistics
Docker-Flow-Monitor ★36 - Reconfigures Prometheus when a new service is updated or deployed automatically by @vfarcic
Docker-Fluentd - Docker container to Log Other Containers’ Logs. One can aggregate the logs of Docker containers running on the same host using Fluentd by @kiyoto
Dockerana ★192 ⏳3Y - packaged version of Graphite and Grafana, specifically targeted at metrics from Docker.
Dynatrace - Monitor containerized applications without installing agents or modifying your Run commands
Glances ★10096 - A cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python by @nicolargo
Grafana Docker Dashboard Template - A template for your Docker, Grafana and Prometheus stack @vegasbrianc
InfluxDB, cAdvisor, Grafana ★365 - InfluxDB Time series DB in combination with Grafana and cAdvisor by @vegasbrianc
LogJam ★121 ⏳2Y - Logjam is a log forwarder designed to listen on a local port, receive log entries over UDP, and forward these messages on to a log collection server (such as logstash) by @gocardless
Logsene for Docker Monitoring of Metrics, Events and Logs implemented in Node.js. Integrated logagent-js ★201 to detect and parse various log formats. @sematext
Logspout ★3244 - Log routing for Docker container logs by @gliderlabs
Out-of-the-box Host/Container Monitoring/Logging/Alerting Stack ★288 - Docker host and container monitoring, logging and alerting out of the box using cAdvisor, Prometheus, Grafana for monitoring, Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash for logging and elastalert and Alertmanager for alerting. Set up in 5 Minutes. Secure mode for production use with built-in Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy (jwilder’s).
Zabbix Docker module ★715 - Zabbix module that provides discovery of running containers, CPU/memory/blk IO/net container metrics. Systemd Docker and LXC execution driver is also supported. It’s a dynamically linked shared object library, so its performance is (~10x) better, than any script solution.
Zabbix Docker ★34 - Monitor containers automatically using zabbix LLD feature.

Networking

Calico-Docker - Calico is a pure layer 3 virtual network that allows containers over multiple docker-hosts to talk to each other.
Flannel ★3129 - Flannel is a virtual network that gives a subnet to each host for use with container runtimes. By @coreos
netshoot ★347 - The netshoot container has a powerful set of networking tools to help troubleshoot Docker networking issues by @nicolaka
Weave (The Docker network) - Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts.

Orchestration

athena ★67 ⏳1Y - An automation platform with a plugin architecture that allows you to easily create and share services.
blimp ★17 ⏳3Y - Uses Docker Machine to easily move a container from one Docker host to another, show containers running against all of your hosts, replicate a container across multiple hosts and more by @defermat and @schvin
CloudSlang ★181 - CloudSlang is a workflow engine to create Docker process automation
clusterdock ★20 - Docker container orchestration to enable the testing of long-running cluster deployments
ContainerShip ★222 A simple container management platform
Crane ★714 - Control plane based on docker built-in swarm @Dataman-Cloud
Docker Flow Swarm Listener ★91 - Docker Flow Swarm Listener project is to listen to Docker Swarm events and send requests when a change occurs. By @vfarcic
gantryd ★274 ⏳1Y - A framework for easy management of docker-based components across machines by @DevTable
Haven ★161 - Haven is a simplified container management platform that integrates container, application, cluster, image, and registry managements. By @codeabovelab
Helios ★1923 - A simple platform for deploying and managing containers across an entire fleet of servers by @spotify
Kontena ★1355 - Application Containers for Masses website
Kubernetes ★38089 - Open source orchestration system for Docker containers by Google
ManageIQ ★662 - Discover, optimize and control your hybrid IT. By ManageIQ
Mantl ★3028 - Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services
Marathon ★3674 - Marathon is a private PaaS built on Mesos. It automatically handles hardware or software failures and ensures that an app is “always on”
Mesos ★3734 - Resource/Job scheduler for containers, VM’s and physical hosts @apache
Mesosphere DC/OS - Integrated platform for data and containers built on Apache Mesos by @mesosphere
Nebula - A Docker orchestration tool designed to manage massive scale distributed clusters.
Nomad ★3579 - Easily deploy applications at any scale. A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler by @hashicorp
Panamax ★1454 ⏳2Y - An open-source project that makes deploying complex containerized apps as easy as Drag-and-Drop by @CenturyLinkLabs.
Rancher ★8709 - An open source project that provides a complete platform for operating Docker in production by @rancher.
Swarmpit ★474 - Lightweight Docker Swarm orchestration. Swarmpit provides clean way to manage your Docker Swarm cluster with various handful features such Service management, smart search, shared access and private registries.

PaaS

Atlantis ★375 ⏳2Y - Atlantis is an Open Source PaaS for HTTP applications built on Docker and written in Go
CaptainDuckDuck ★3269 - Open source Heroku-like platform with a one-liner installer and a GUI for managing apps - with serveral one-click databases and apps.
Convox Rack ★1679 - Convox Rack is open source PaaS built on top of expert infrastructure automation and devops best practices.
Dcw ★5 ⏳1Y - Docker-compose SSH wrapper: a very poor man PaaS, exposing the docker-compose and custom-container commands defined in container labels.
Dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications (originally by @progrium)
Empire ★2411 - A PaaS built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)
Flynn ★6714 - A next generation open source platform as a service
Jelastic - An advanced PaaS for developers that simplifies clustering and complex cloud deployments with powerful web UI and usage-only pricing
Nanobox ★1241 - An application development platform that creates local environments that can then be deployed and scaled in the cloud.
OpenShift - An open source PaaS built on Kubernetes and optimized for Dockerized app development and deployment by Red Hat
Tsuru ★2789 - Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software
Workflow ★1139 - The open source PaaS for Kubernetes by Deis. Formerly Deis v1.
ZEIT Now ★2118 - A universal serverless single-command deploy for Node.js applications or any application with a Dockerfile.

Reverse Proxy

docker-flow-proxy ★616 - Reconfigures proxy every time a new service is deployed, or when a service is scaled. By @vfarcic
docker-proxy ★190 - Transparent proxy for docker containers, run in a docker container. By @silarsis
fabio ★4798 - A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul. By @magiconair (Frank Schroeder)
h2o-proxy ★37 ⏳2Y - Automated H2O reverse proxy for Docker containers. An alternative to jwilder/nginx-proxy by @zchee
Let’s Encrypt Nginx-proxy Companion ★2983 - A lightweight companion container for the nginx-proxy. It allow the creation/renewal of Let’s Encrypt certificates automatically. By @JrCs
muguet ★154 ⏳1Y - DNS Server & Reverse proxy for Docker environments. By @mattallty
nginx-proxy - Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen by @jwilder
Swarm Ingress Router ★172 ⏳1Y - Route DNS names to Swarm services based on labels. By @tpbowden
Swarm Router ★15 - A «zero config» service name based router for docker swarm mode with a fresh and more secure approach. By @flavioaiello
Træfɪk ★16029 - Automated reverse proxy and load-balancer for Docker, Mesos, Consul, Etcd… By @EmileVauge

Security

Anchor Cloud - Hosted version of Anchor Engine by @Anchor
Anchor Engine ★288 - Analyze images for CVE vulnerabilities and against custom security policies by @Anchor
Aqua Security - Securing container-based applications from Dev to Production on any platform
bane ★564 - AppArmor profile generator for Docker containers by @genuinetools
CIS Docker Benchmark ★112 - This InSpec compliance profile implement the CIS Docker 1.12.0 Benchmark in an automated way to provide security best-practice tests around Docker daemon and containers in a production environment. By @dev-sec
Clair ★3687 - Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in appc and docker containers. By @coreos
Dagda ★371 - Dagda is a tool to perform static analysis of known vulnerabilities, trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats in docker images/containers and to monitor the docker daemon and running docker containers for detecting anomalous activities. By @eliasgranderubio
docker-bench-security ★3777 - script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production. By @docker
docker-explorer ★163 - A tool to help forensicate offline docker acquisitions by @Google
notary ★1392 - a server and a client for running and interacting with trusted collections. By @TUF
oscap-docker ★322 - OpenSCAP provides oscap-docker tool which is used to scan Docker containers and images. By RedHat
Sysdig Falco ★809 - Sysdig Falco is an open source container security monitor. It can monitor application, container, host, and network activity and alert on unauthorized activity.
Sysdig Secure - Sysdig Secure addresses run-time security through behavioral monitoring and defense, and provides deep forensics based on open source Sysdig for incident response.
Twistlock - Twistlock Security Suite detects vulnerabilities, hardens container images, and enforces security policies across the lifecycle of applications.

Service Discovery

Docker Grand Ambassador ★193 ⏳3Y - This is a fully dynamic docker link ambassador. + Article by @cpuguy83
docker-consul ★1023 by @progrium
etcd ★18952 - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery by @coreOS
istio ★8548 - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices by @IstioMesh
proxy ★49 ⏳3Y - lightweight nginx based load balancer self using service discovery provided by registrator. by @factorish
registrator ★3648 - Service registry bridge for Docker by @gliderlabs and @progrium

Volume Management / Data

Blockbridge ★72 - The Blockbridge plugin is a volume plugin that provides access to an extensible set of container-based persistent storage options. It supports single and multi-host Docker environments with features that include tenant isolation, automated provisioning, encryption, secure deletion, snapshots and QoS. By @blockbridge
Convoy ★990 ⏳1Y - an open-source Docker volume driver that can snapshot, backup and restore Docker volumes anywhere. By @rancher
Docker Machine NFS ★726 Activates NFS for an existing boot2docker box created through Docker Machine on OS X.
Docker Unison ★164 ⏳1Y A docker volume container using Unison for fast two-way folder sync. Created as an alternative to slow boot2docker volumes on OS X. By @leighmcculloch
Local Persist ★367 Specify a mountpoint for your local volumes (created via docker volume create) so that files will always persist and so you can mount to different directories in different containers.
Minio ★30 - S3 compatible object storage server in Docker containers
Netshare ★670 Docker NFS, AWS EFS, Ceph & Samba/CIFS Volume Plugin. By @ContainX
portworx - Decentralized storage solution for persistent, shared and replicated volumes.
quobyte - fully fault-tolerant distributed file system with a docker volume driver
REX-Ray ★1222 provides a vendor agnostic storage orchestration engine. The primary design goal is to provide persistent storage for Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos. By@thecodeteam (DELL Technologies)

User Interface

Desktop

Native desktop applications for managing and montoring docker hosts and clusters

Captain - Manage containers from the MacOSX menu bar by @RickWong
Dockeron ★332 - A project built on Electron + Vue.js for Docker on desktop. @fluency03
DockStation ★423 - A developer centric UI to configure, monitor, and manage services and containers @dock_station
Lifeboat ★82 - An easy way to launch Docker projects with a graphical interface on your Mac. @jplhomer

Terminal

captain ★48 - Easily start and stop docker compose projects from any directory. By @jenssegers
ctop (1) ★373 - A command line / text based Linux Containers monitoring tool that works just like you expect (Python) by @yadutaf
ctop (2) ★7091 - Top-like interface for container metrics (Golang) by @bcicen
dext-docker-registry-plugin ★1 ⏳1Y - Search the Docker Registry with the Dext smart launcher.
docker-ls ★240 - CLI tools for browsing and manipulating docker registries by @mayflower
Docker-mon ★748 ⏳2Y - Console-based Docker monitoring by @icecrime
docker.el ★256 Manage docker from Emacs by Silex
dockercraft ★4872 - Docker + Minecraft = Dockercraft by @docker
dockerfile-mode ★257 An emacs mode for handling Dockerfiles by spotify
dockersql ★85 ⏳3Y - A command line interface to query Docker using SQL by @crosbymichael
dockly ★1024 - An interactive shell UI for managing Docker containers by @lirantal
dry ★1105 - An interactive CLI for Docker containers by @moncho
DVM ★463 - Docker version manager by @howtowhale
MultiDocker ★6 - Create a secure multi-user Docker machine, where each user is segregated into an indepentent container.
ns-enter ★1965 ⏳1Y - no more ssh, enter name spaces of container by @jpetazzo
Powerline-Docker ★30 ⏳1Y - A Powerline segment for showing the status of Docker containers by @adrianmo
proco ★34 - Proco will help you to organise and manage Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes projects of any complexity using simple YAML config files to shorten the route from finding your project to initialising it in your local environment. by @shiwaforce
reg ★458 - Docker registry v2 command line client by @genuinetools
scuba ★28 - Transparently use Docker containers to encapsulate software build environments, by @JonathonReinhart
sen ★695 - Terminal user interface for docker engine, by @TomasTomecek
supdock ★8 - Allows for slightly more visual usage of Docker with an interactive prompt by @segersniels
tsaotun ★30 - Python based Assistance for Docker by @qazbnm456
wharfee ★569 - Autocompletion and syntax highlighting for Docker commands. by @j-bennet

Web

Docker Registry Browser ★47 - Web Interface for the Docker Registry HTTP API v2 by @klausmeyer
Docker Registry UI ★778 - A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration by @squidnyan
docker-registry-web ★309 - Web UI, authentication service and event recorder for private docker registry v2 by @mkuchin
docker-swarm-visualizer ★2213 - Visualizes Docker services on a Docker Swarm (for running demos).
dockering-on-rails ★13 ⏳2Y - Simple Web-Interface for Docker with a lot of features by @Electrofenster
DockerSurfer ★2 - A web service for analyze and browse dependencies between Docker images in the Docker registry, by @Simone-Erba
OctoLinker ★2734 - A browser extension for GitHub that makes the image name in a Dockerfile clickable and redirect you to the related Docker Hub page.
Portainer ★8169 - A lightweight management UI for managing your Docker hosts or Docker Swarm clusters by @portainer
Portus ★1879 - Authorization service and frontend for Docker registry (v2) by @SUSE
Rapid Dashboard ★72 - A simple query dashboard to use Docker Remote API by @ozlerhakan
Seagull ★1739 - Friendly Web UI to monitor docker daemon. by @tobegit3hub
Swirl ★138 - Swirl is a web management tool for Docker, focused on swarm cluster By @cuigh

Docker Images

Base Tools

Tools and applications that are either installed inside containers or designed to be run as a sidecar

amicontained ★332 - Container introspection tool. Find out what container runtime is being used as well as features available by @genuinetools
autodock ★44 - Daemon for Docker Automation by @prologic
Chaperone ★138 - A single PID1 process designed for docker containers. Does user management, log management, startup, zombie reaping, all in one small package. by @garywiz
CoreOS - Linux for Massive Server Deployments
docker-alpine - A super small Docker base image (5MB) using Alpine Linux by @gliderlabs
docker-gen ★2845 - Generate files from docker container meta-data by @jwilder
dockerize ★1890 - Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers by @jwilder
GoSu ★2208 - Run this specific application as this specific user and get out of the pipeline (entrypoint script tool) by @tianon
is-docker ★52 ⏳1Y - Check if the process is running inside a Docker container by @sindresorhus
lstags ★177 - sync Docker images across registries by @ivanilves
NVIDIA-Docker ★5880 - The NVIDIA Container Runtime for Docker by @NVIDIA
su-exec ★417 - This is a simple tool that will simply execute a program with different privileges. The program will be excuted directly and not run as a child, like su and sudo does, which avoids TTY and signal issues. Why reinvent gosu? This does more or less exactly the same thing as gosu but it is only 10kb instead of 1.8MB. By ncopa
supercronic ★410 - crontab-compatible job runner, designed specifically to run in containers by @aptible
TrivialRC ★22 - A minimalistic Runtime Configuration system and process manager for containers @vorakl

Builder

Applications designed to help or simplify building new images

buildah ★761 - A tool that facilitates building OCI images by @projectAtomic
container-diff ★1706 - An image tool for comparing and analzying container images by @GoogleContainerTools
container-factory ★54 ⏳3Y - Produces Docker images from tarballs of application source code by @mutable
copy-docker-image ★11 - Copy a Docker image between registries without a full Docker installation by @mdlavin
Derrick ★210 - A tool help you to automate the generation of Dockerfile and dockerize application by scanning the code. By @alibaba.
dlayer ★71 - Stats collector for Docker layers by @wercker
docker-companion ★22 - A command line tool written in Golang to squash and unpack docker images by @mudler
docker-make ★66 - Build, tag,and push a bunch of related docker images via a single command.
docker-replay ★130 - Generate docker runcommand and options from running containers. By bcicen
DockerSlim ★1456 shrinks fat Docker images creating the smallest possible images.
Dockly ★199 - Dockly is a gem made to ease the pain of packaging an application in Docker by @swipely
dockramp ★264 ⏳2Y - Proof of Concept: A Client Driven Docker Image Builder by @jlhawn
flyimg - Docker image resizing, cropping, and compression on the fly.
img ★1535 - Standalone, daemon-less, unprivileged Dockerfile and OCI compatible container image builder by @genuinetools
kaniko ★1584 - Build Container Images In Kubernetes. By @GoogleContainerTools
MicroBadger - Analyze the contents of images and add metadata labels
packer - Hashicorp tool to build machine images including docker image integrated with configuration management tools like chef, puppet, ansible
portainer ★128 ⏳1Y - Apache Mesos framework for building Docker images by @duedil-ltd
runlike ★138 🚧 - Generate docker runcommand and options from running containers by @lavie
SkinnyWhale ★173 - Skinnywhale helps you make smaller (as in megabytes) Docker containers.
Whaler ★305 - Program to reverse Docker images into Dockerfiles by @P3GLEG.
Whales ★97 - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications by @icalialabs.

Dockerfile

chaperone-docker ★46 - A set of images using the Chaperone process manager, including a lean Alpine image, LAMP, LEMP, and bare-bones base kits.
Dockerfile Generator
Dockerfile Project : Trusted Automated Docker Builds. Dockerfile Project maintains a central repository of Dockerfile for various popular open source software services runnable on a Docker container.
Vektorcloud - A collection of minimal, Alpine-based Docker images

Examples by:

Linter

dockerfile_lint ★220 - A rule-based ‘linter’ for Dockerfiles by @projectatomic
Dockerfilelint ★283 - A node module that analyzes a Dockerfile and looks for common traps, mistakes and helps enforce best practices by @replicatedhq
dockfmt ★212 - Dockerfile formatter and parser by @jessfraz
Hadolint ★987 - A Dockerfile linter that checks for best practices, common mistakes, and is also able to lint any bash written in RUN instructions; by @lukasmartinelli
Whale-linter ★30 - A simple and small Dockerfile linter written in Python3+ without dependencies by @jeromepin

Metadata

opencontainer - A convention and shared namespace for Docker labels defined by OCI Image Spec.

Registry

Services to securely store your Docker images.

Amazon EC2 Container Registry - Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
Azure Container Registry - Manage a Docker private registry as a first-class Azure resource
CargoOS ★4 ⏳1Y - A bare essential OS for running the Docker Engine on bare metal or Cloud. By @RedCoolBeans
Cycle.io - Bare-metal container hosting.
cleanreg ★15 - A small tool to delete image manifests from a Docker Registry implementing the API v2, dereferencing them for the GC by @hcguersoy
Docker Hub provided by Docker Inc.
Docker Registry v2 - The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content
Docket ★616 ⏳3Y - Custom docker registry that allows for lightning fast deploys through bittorrent by @netvarun
Europa ★101 - Private docker registry with support for image pipelines and webhooks. By @puppetlabs
GCE Container Registry Fast, private Docker image storage on Google Cloud Platform
GitLab Container Registry - Repositories focused on using it images in GitLab CI
JFrog Artifactory - Artifact Repository Manager, can be used as private Docker Registry as well
Private Docker Registry - Dedicated Conainer Registry Service with unlimited private repositories, users, teams, namespaces together with enterprise grade authentication LDAP/AD/OAuth/SAML.
Quay.io (part of CoreOS) - Secure hosting for private Docker repositories
Rescoyl ★10 ⏳1Y - Private Docker registry (free and open source) by @noteed
Sonatype Nexus - Repository with Universal Support, also for Docker images
TreeScale - Build and Distribute container based applications. By @tigranbs
VMWare Harbor Project Harbor by VMWare is an enterprise-class registry server that stores and distributes Docker images. Harbor extends the open source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by an enterprise, such as security, identity and management.

Development with Docker

API Client

ahab ★117 - Docker event handling with Python by @instacart
Docker Client for JVM ★55 - A Docker remote api client library for the JVM, written in Groovy by @gesellix
Docker Client TypeScript - Docker API client for JavaScript, automatically generated from Swagger API definition from moby repository. By @masaeedu
docker-it-scala ★303 - Docker integration testing kit with Scala by @whisklabs
docker-maven-plugin ★871 - A Maven plugin for running and creating Docker images by @fabric8io
Docker-PowerShell ★257 - PowerShell Module for Docker
Docker.DotNet ★550 - C#/.NET HTTP client for the Docker remote API by @ahmetalpbalkan
dockerfile-maven ★771 - A Maven plugin for building and pushing Docker images by @spotify
dockerode ★1815 - Docker Remote API node.js module by @apocas
DoMonit ★53 ⏳1Y - A simple Docker Monitoring wrapper For Docker API
go-dockerclient ★1290 - Go HTTP client for the Docker remote API by @fsouza
Gradle Docker plugin ★71 - A Docker remote api plugin for Gradle by @gesellix
libcompose ★516 - Go library for Docker Compose.
sbt-docker-compose ★127 - Integrates Docker Compose functionality into sbt by @kurtkopchik
sbt-docker ★566 - Create Docker images directly from sbt by @marcuslonnberg

CI/CD

Buddy - The best of Git, build & deployment tools combined into one powerful tool that supercharged our development.
Captain ★642 - Convert your Git workflow to Docker containers ready for Continuous Delivery by @harbur.
Cyclone ★545 - A cloud native CI/CD platform built for container workflow by @caicloud.
Docker plugin for Jenkins ★365 - The aim of the docker plugin is to be able to use a docker host to dynamically provision a slave, run a single build, then tear-down that slave.
Drone ★14753 - Continuous integration server built on Docker and configured using YAML files.
GitLab CI - GitLab has integrated CI to test, build and deploy your code with the use of GitLab runners.
GOCD-Docker ★98 ⏳1YGo Server and Agent in docker containers to provision.
Microservices Continuous Deployment ★122 - Continuous deployment of a microservices application.
mu ★361 - Tool to configure CI/CD of your container applications via AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild and ECS @Stelligent
Screwdriver - Yahoo’s OpenSource buildplatform designed for Continous Delivery.
Skipper ★21 - Easily dockerize your Git repository by @Stratoscale
SwarmCI ★42 ⏳1Y - Create a distributed, isolated task pipeline in your Docker Swarm.
Watchtower ★2076 - Automatically update running Docker containers by @CenturyLinkLabs

Development Environment

Binci ★582 - Containerize your development workflow. (formerly DevLab by @TechnologyAdvice)
Boot2Docker ★7431 - Docker for OSX and Windows
construi ★19 - Run your builds inside a Docker defined environment by @lstephen
Devstep ★201 - Development environments powered by Docker and buildpacks by @fgrehm
Dinghy ★1785 - An alternative way to use Docker on Mac OS X using Docker Machine with virtualbox, vmware, xhyve or parallels
DLite ★2403 - Simplest way to use Docker on OSX, no VM needed. By @nlf
dobi ★147 - A build automation tool for Docker applications. By @dnephin
Docker Missing Tools ★10 - A set of bash commands to shortcut typical docker dev-ops. An alternative to creating typical helper scripts like “build.sh” and “deploy.sh” inside code repositories. By @NandoQuintana.
Docker osx dev ★1439 - A productive development environment with Docker on OS X by @brikis98
Docker-Arch ★18 - Generate Web/CLI projects Dockerized development environments, from 1 simple YAML file. By @Ph3nol
Docker-sync - Drastically improves performance (50-70x) when using Docker for development on Mac OS X/Windows and Linux while sharing code to the container. By @EugenMayer
docker-vm ★33 ⏳1Y - Simple and transparent alternative to boot2docker (backed by Vagrant) by @shyiko
Dusty - Managed Docker development environments on OS X
Eclipse Che - Developer workspace server with Docker runtimes, cloud IDE, next-generation Eclipse IDE
EnvCLI ★5 - Replace your local installation of Node, Go, … with project-specific docker containers. By @PhilippHeuer
forward2docker ★77 ⏳2Y - Utility to auto forward a port from localhost into ports on Docker containers running in a boot2docker VM by @bsideup
Lando ★786 - Lando is for developers who want to quickly specify and painlessly spin up the services and tools needed to develop their projects. By Tandem
Vagga ★1410 - Vagga is a containerisation tool without daemons. It is a fully-userspace container engine inspired by Vagrant and Docker, specialized for development environments by @tailhook

Garbage Collection

caduc ★9 - A docker garbage collector cleaning stuff you did not use recently
Docker Clean ★958 - A script that cleans Docker containers, images and volumes by @zzrotdesign
Docker-cleanup ★511 - Automatic Docker image, container and volume cleanup by @meltwater
docker-custodian ★279 - Keep docker hosts tidy. By @Yelp
docker-garby ★28 - Docker garbage collection script by @konstruktoid.
docker-gc ★4252 - A cron job that will delete old stopped containers and unused images by @spotify
sherdock ★111 ⏳2Y - Automatic GC of images based on regexp by @rancher

Serverless

AMP ★73 - The open source unified CaaS/FaaS platform for Docker, batteries included. By @Appcelerator
Apache OpenWhisk ★3232 - a serverless, open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale. By @apache
Docker-Lambda ★2278 - Docker images and test runners that replicate the live AWS Lambda environment. By @lamb-ci
Funker ★16 ⏳1Y - Functions as Docker containers example voting app. By @bfirsh
IronFunctions ★2216 - The serverless microservices platform FaaS (Funcitons as a Service) which uses Docker containers to run Any language or AWS Lambda functions
OpenFaaS ★10353 - A complete serverless functions framework for Docker and Kubernetes. By OpenFaaS
SCAR ★266 - Serverless Container-aware Architectures (SCAR) is a serverless framework that allows easy deployment and execution of containers (e.g. Docker) in Serverless environments (e.g. Lambda) by @grycap

Testing

Container Structure Test ★709 - A framework to validate the structure of an image by checking the outputs of commands or the contents of the filesystem. By @GoogleContainerTools
dgoss - A fast YAML based tool for validating docker containers.
DockerSpec ★154 - A small Ruby Gem to run RSpec and Serverspec, Infrataster and Capybara tests against Dockerfiles or Docker images easily. By @zuazo
Dockunit ★43 ⏳2Y - Docker based integration tests. A simple Node based utility for running Docker based unit tests. By @dockunit
InSpec - InSpec is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy requirements. By @chef
Pumba ★907 - Chaos testing tool for Docker. Can be deployed on kubernetes and CoreOS cluster. By @alexei-led

Wrappers

Ansible - Manage the life cycle of Docker containers. By RedHat
Azk ★855 ⏳1Y - Orchestrate development enviornments on your local machine by @azukiapp
Beluga ★167 - CLI to deploy docker containers on a single server or low amount of servers. By @cortextmedia
dexec ★292 ⏳1Y - Command line interface written in Go for running code with Docker Exec images.
docker-do ★15 ⏳2Y - hassle-free docker run, like env but for docker by @benzaita
Dray ★342 ⏳2Y - An engine for managing the execution of container-based workflows by @CenturyLinkLabs
FuGu ★140 ⏳2Y - Docker run wrapper without orchestration by @mattes
SaltStack Docker module - SaltStack Docker module
Shutit - Tool for building and maintaining complex Docker deployments by @ianmiell
subuser ★691 - Makes it easy to securely and portably run graphical desktop applications in Docker
Turbo ★12 ⏳1Y - Simple and Powerful utility for docker. By @ramitsurana
udocker ★315 - A tool to execute simple docker containers in batch or interactive systems without root privileges by @inidigo-dc
Vagrant - Docker provider - Good starting point is vagrant-docker-example ★94 ⏳2Y by @bubenkoff

Services based on Docker ()

CI Services

CircleCI - Push or pull Docker images from your build environment, or build and run containers right on CircleCI.
CodeFresh - Everything you need to build, test, and share your Docker applications. Provides automated end to end testing.
CodeShip - Work with your established Docker workflows while automating your testing and deployment tasks with our hosted platform dedicated to speed and security.
ConcourseCI - A CI SaaS platform for developers and DevOps teams pipeline oriented.
IBM Bluemix Continous Delivery - Continuous delivery using a pipeline deployment onto IBM containers on Bluemix.
Semaphore CI — A high-performance cloud solution that makes it easy to build, test and ship your containers to production.
Shippable - A SaaS platform for developers and DevOps teams that significantly reduces the time taken for code to be built, tested and deployed to production.
TravisCI - A Free github projects continuous integration Saas platform for developers and Devops.
Wercker - A Docker-Native continous integration & deployment Automation platform for Kubernetes & Microservice Deployments.

CaaS

Amazon ECS - A management service on EC2 that supports Docker containers.
Arukas - Heroku-inspired CaaS
Azure AKS - Simplify Kubernetes management, deployment, and operations. Use a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service.
Cloud 66 - Full-stack hosted container management as a service
Codenvy - One-click Docker environments and cloud workspace for development teams
ContainerShip Cloud - Multi-Cloud Container Hosting Automation Platform.
Docker Cloud - Former Tutum
Dockhero - Dockhero is a Heroku add-on which turns a Docker image into a microservice attached to the Heroku app. Currently in beta.
Giant Swarm - Simple microservice infrastructure. Deploy your containers in seconds.
Google Container Engine - Docker containers on Google Cloud Computing powered by Kubernetes.
Hyper_ - Secure container hosting service with “nano-containers” and per-second billing.
IBM Bluemix Container Service - Run Docker containers in a hosted cloud environment on IBM Bluemix.
Jelastic Cloud - “Easy-to-use” container hosting platfrom with automatic vertical and horizontal scaling. Available over 50+ hosting providers worldwide.
OpenShift Dedicated - A hosted OpenShift cluster for running your Docker containers managed by Red Hat.
Sloppy.io - all-in-one solution for container deployment and hosting – made and hosted in Germany
Triton - Elastic container-native infrastructure by Joyent.

Monitoring Services

AppDynamics - AppDynamics gives enterprises real-time insights into application performance, user performance, and business performance so they can move faster in an increasingly sophisticated, software-driven world.
Axibase Time-Series Database - Long-term retention of container statistics and built-in dashboards for Docker. Collected with native Google cAdvisor storage driver.
CA Technologies Docker Monitoring - Agile Operations solutions from CA deliver the modern Docker monitoring businesses need to accelerate and optimize the performance of microservices and the dynamic Docker environments running them. Monitor both the Docker environment and apps that run inside them.
Collecting docker logs and stats with Splunk
CoScale - Full stack monitoring for containerized applications and microservices. Powered by anomaly detection to find performance problems faster.
Datadog - Datadog is a full-stack monitoring service for large-scale cloud environments that aggregates metrics/events from servers, databases, and applications. It includes support for Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos.
Meros - Analyzes containers resources, captures logs, remote web SSH terminal and powerful DevOps alerts.
Prometheus - Open-source service monitoring system and time series database
Site24x7 - Docker Monitoring for DevOps and IT is a SaaS Pay per Host model
SPM for Docker - Monitoring of host and container metrics, Docker events and logs. Automatic log parser. Anomaly Detection and alerting for metrics and logs. @sematext
Sysdig Monitor - Sysdig Monitor can be used as either software or a SaaS service to monitor, alert, and troubleshoot containers using system calls. It has container-specific features for Docker and Kubernetes.

Useful Resources

Valuable Docker Links High quality articles about docker! MUST SEE
Cloud Native Landscape ★2734
Docker Weekly Huge resource
Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Docker

Blogs by

Awesome Lists

Awesome CI/CD ★683 - Not specific to docker but relevant.
Awesome Kubernetes ★2766 by @ramitsurana
Awesome Linux Container ★555 more general about container than this repo, by @Friz-zy.
Awesome Selfhosted ★23808 list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally by running in a classical way (setup local web server and run applications from there) or in a Docker container. By @Kickball
Awesome Sysadmin ★6727 by @n1trux
ToolsOfTheTrade ★7194 a list of SaaS and On premise applications by @cjbarber

Good Tips

Dealing with linked containers dependency in docker-compose by @rochacbruno
Docker Caveats What You Should Know About Running Docker In Production (written 11 APRIL 2016) MUST SEE
Docker Containers on the Desktop - The funniest way to learn about docker by @jessfraz who also gave a presentation about it @ DockerCon 2015
Docker vs. VMs? Combining Both for Cloud Portability Nirvana
Don’t Repeat Yourself with Anchors, Aliases and Extensions in Docker Compose Files by @King Chung Huang
GUI Apps with Docker by @fgrehm

Raspberry Pi & ARM

Docker Pirates ARMed with explosive stuff Huge resource on clustering, swarm, docker, pre-installed image for SD card on Raspberry Pi
Get Docker up and running on the RaspberryPi in three steps
git push docker containers to linux devices Modern DevOps for IoT, leveraging git and Docker.
Installing, running, using Docker on armhf (ARMv7) devices

Security

Videos

Contributing to Docker by Andrew “Tianon” Page (InfoSiftr) (34:31)
Deploying and scaling applications with Docker, Swarm, and a tiny bit of Python magic (3:11:06) by @jpetazzo
Docker and SELinux by Daniel Walsh from Red Hat (40:23)
Docker for Developers (54:26) by @jpetazzo <== Good introduction, context, demo
Docker in Production by @jpetazzo (36:05)
Docker: How to Use Your Own Private Registry (15:01)
Extending Docker with Plugins (15:21)
From Local Docker Development to Production Deployments by @jpetazzo @ AWS re:Invent 2015
Immutable Infrastructure with Docker and EC2 by Michael Bryzek (Gilt) (42:04)
Introduction to Docker and containers (3:09:00) by @jpetazzo
Logging on Docker: What You Need to Know (51:27)
Performance Analysis of Docker - Jeremy Eder (1:36:58)
Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes Free Udacity course
State of containers: a debate with CoreOS, VMware and Google (27:38)
SysAdminCasts: Introduction to Docker (15:49)

Communities and Meetups

Brazilian

Docker BR on Slack - Auto invite url
Docker BR on Telegram

Chinese

DockerOne Docker Community (in Chinese) by @LiYingJie

English

Russian

Docker Russian-speaking Community

This list is a copy of veggiemonk/awesome-docker with ranks

Ranked awesome lists, all in one place

Awesome Docker ★87749

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Contents

Legend

What is Docker

Where to start

Where to start (Windows)

Projects

Container Operations

Container Composition

Deployment and Infrastructure

Monitoring

Networking

Orchestration

PaaS

Reverse Proxy

Security

Service Discovery

Volume Management / Data

User Interface

Desktop

Terminal

Web

Docker Images

Base Tools

Builder

Dockerfile

Linter

Metadata

Registry

Development with Docker

API Client

CI/CD

Development Environment

Garbage Collection

Serverless

Testing

Wrappers

Services based on Docker ()

CI Services

CaaS

Monitoring Services

Useful Resources

Awesome Lists

Good Tips

Raspberry Pi & ARM

Security

Videos

Communities and Meetups

Brazilian

Chinese

English

Russian