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- What is Docker
- Where to start
- Where to start (Windows)
- Projects
- Useful Resources
- Communities and Meetups
- Abandoned 💀
- Beta 🚧
- Monetized 💲
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
- 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 Docker Training Videos for all
- Docker Jumpstart: 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 💲
- Katacoda: Learn Docker using Interactive Browser-Based Labs
- Learn Docker 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.
Cheatsheets by
- @eon01
- @dimonomid (PDF)
- @JensPiegsa
- @wsargent (Most popular)
- 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
- 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
- Docker Images
- Docker Compose (Define and run multi-container applications with Docker)
- Docker Machine (Machine management for a container-centric world)
- Docker Registry (The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content)
- Docker Swarm (Swarm: a Docker-native clustering system)
- bocker (2) - Write Dockerfile completely in Bash. Extensible and simple. --> Reusable by @icy
- bocker (1) 💀 - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash by p8952
- box - Build Dockerfile images with a mruby DSL, includes flattening and layer manipulation
- Capitan - Composable docker orchestration with added scripting support by @byrnedo.
- compose_plantuml - Generate Plantuml graphs from docker-compose files by @funkwerk
- Composerize - Convert docker run commands into docker-compose files
- crowdr - Tool for managing multiple Docker containers (
docker-composealternative) by @polonskiy - docker-compose-graphviz - Turn a docker-compose.yml files into Graphviz .dot files by @abesto
- draw-compose - Utility to draw a schema of a docker compose by @Alexis-benoist
- elsy - An opinionated, multi-language, build tool based on Docker and Docker Compose
- habitus - A Build Flow Tool for Docker by @cloud66
- Maestro 💀 - 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 - A container run and build engine - runs inside docker.
- rocker-compose 💀 - Docker composition tool with idempotency features for deploying apps composed of multiple containers. By @grammarly
- rocker 💀 - Extended Dockerfile builder. Supports multiple FROMs, MOUNTS, templates, etc. by grammarly.
- Stacker - Docker Compose Templates. Stacker provides an abstraction layer over Docker Compose and a better DX (developer experience).
- Smalte – Dynamically configure applications that require static configuration in docker container. By @roquie
- Zodiac 💀 - A lightweight tool for easy deployment and rollback of dockerized applications. By @CenturyLinkLabs
- blackfish - a CoreOS VM to build swarm clusters for Dev & Production by @blackfish
- BosnD - BosnD, the boatswain daemon - A dynamic configuration file writer & service reloader for dynamically changing container environments.
- Centurion - 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 - 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 - Experimental deployment system for Docker by @ehazlett
- depcon - Depcon is written in Go and allows you to easily deploy Docker containers to Apache Mesos/Marathon, Amazon ECS and Kubernetes. By @ContainX
- deploy 💀 - Git and Docker deployment tool. A middle ground between simple Docker composition tools and full blown cluster orchestration by @ttiny
- dockit 💀 - Do docker actions and Deploy gluster containers! By @humblec
- gitkube - Gitkube is a tool for building and deploying docker images on Kubernetes using
git push. By @Hasura. - Grafeas - A common API for metadata about containers, from image and build details to security vulnerabilities. By grafeas
- Longshoreman 💀 - 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
- 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 - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. Created by @Google
- dockprom - Docker hosts and containers monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, cAdvisor, NodeExporter and AlertManager by @stefanprodan
- Docker-Alertd - Monitor and send alerts based on docker container resource usage/statistics
- Docker-Flow-Monitor - 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 💀 - packaged version of Graphite and Grafana, specifically targeted at metrics from Docker.
- DockProc - I/O monitoring for containers on processlevel.
- Dozzle - Monitor container logs in real-time with a browser or mobile device. @amir20
- Dynatrace 💲 - Monitor containerized applications without installing agents or modifying your Run commands
- Glances - 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 - InfluxDB Time series DB in combination with Grafana and cAdvisor by @vegasbrianc
- LogJam - 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
- Logspout - Log routing for Docker container logs by @gliderlabs
- NexClipper - NexClipper is the container monitoring and performance management solution specialized in Docker, Apache Mesos, Marathon, DC/OS, Mesosphere, Kubernetes by @Nexclipper
- Out-of-the-box Host/Container Monitoring/Logging/Alerting Stack - 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 - 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 - Monitor containers automatically using zabbix LLD feature.
- Calico-Docker - Calico is a pure layer 3 virtual network that allows containers over multiple docker-hosts to talk to each other.
- Flannel - Flannel is a virtual network that gives a subnet to each host for use with container runtimes. By @coreos
- netshoot - The netshoot container has a powerful set of networking tools to help troubleshoot Docker networking issues by @nicolaka
- Pipework - Software-Defined Networking for Linux Containers, Pipework works with "plain" LXC containers, and with the awesome Docker. By @jpetazzo
- Weave (The Docker network) - Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts.
- athena - An automation platform with a plugin architecture that allows you to easily create and share services.
- blimp 💀 - 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 - CloudSlang is a workflow engine to create Docker process automation
- clusterdock - Docker container orchestration to enable the testing of long-running cluster deployments
- ContainerShip A simple container management platform
- Crane - Control plane based on docker built-in swarm @Dataman-Cloud
- Docker Flow Swarm Listener - Docker Flow Swarm Listener project is to listen to Docker Swarm events and send requests when a change occurs. By @vfarcic
- gantryd 💀 - A framework for easy management of docker-based components across machines by @DevTable
- Haven - Haven is a simplified container management platform that integrates container, application, cluster, image, and registry managements. By @codeabovelab
- Helios - A simple platform for deploying and managing containers across an entire fleet of servers by @spotify
- Kontena - Application Containers for Masses website
- Kubernetes - Open source orchestration system for Docker containers by Google
- ManageIQ - Discover, optimize and control your hybrid IT. By ManageIQ
- Mantl - Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services
- Marathon - Marathon is a private PaaS built on Mesos. It automatically handles hardware or software failures and ensures that an app is "always on"
- Mesos - 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 - Easily deploy applications at any scale. A Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler by @hashicorp
- Panamax 💀 - An open-source project that makes deploying complex containerized apps as easy as Drag-and-Drop by @CenturyLinkLabs.
- Rancher - An open source project that provides a complete platform for operating Docker in production by @rancher.
- Atlantis 💀 - Atlantis is an Open Source PaaS for HTTP applications built on Docker and written in Go
- CaptainDuckDuck - 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 - Convox Rack is open source PaaS built on top of expert infrastructure automation and devops best practices.
- Dcw - 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 - A PaaS built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)
- Exoframe - A self-hosted tool that allows simple one-command deployments using Docker
- Flynn - 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 💲 - 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 - Tsuru is an extensible and open source Platform as a Service software
- Workflow - The open source PaaS for Kubernetes by Deis. Formerly Deis v1.
- ZEIT Now - A universal serverless single-command deploy for Node.js applications or any application with a Dockerfile.
- docker-flow-proxy - Reconfigures proxy every time a new service is deployed, or when a service is scaled. By @vfarcic
- docker-proxy 💀 - Transparent proxy for docker containers, run in a docker container. By @silarsis
- fabio - A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul. By @magiconair (Frank Schroeder)
- h2o-proxy 💀 - Automated H2O reverse proxy for Docker containers. An alternative to jwilder/nginx-proxy by @zchee
- Let's Encrypt Nginx-proxy Companion - A lightweight companion container for the nginx-proxy. It allow the creation/renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates automatically. By @JrCs
- muguet - 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 - Route DNS names to Swarm services based on labels. By @tpbowden
- Swarm Router - A «zero config» service name based router for docker swarm mode with a fresh and more secure approach. By @flavioaiello
- Træfɪk - Automated reverse proxy and load-balancer for Docker, Mesos, Consul, Etcd... By @EmileVauge
- Anchor Cloud 💲 - Hosted version of Anchor Engine by @Anchor
- Anchor Engine - 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 - AppArmor profile generator for Docker containers by @genuinetools
- CIS Docker Benchmark - 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 - Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in appc and docker containers. By @coreos
- Dagda - 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 - script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production. By @docker
- docker-explorer - A tool to help forensicate offline docker acquisitions by @Google
- notary - a server and a client for running and interacting with trusted collections. By @TUF
- oscap-docker - OpenSCAP provides oscap-docker tool which is used to scan Docker containers and images. By OpenSCAP
- Sysdig Falco - 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.
- Docker Grand Ambassador 💀 - This is a fully dynamic docker link ambassador. + Article by @cpuguy83
- docker-consul by @progrium
- etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system by @etcd-io (former part of CoreOS)
- istio - An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices by @IstioMesh
- proxy 💀 - lightweight nginx based load balancer self using service discovery provided by registrator. by @factorish
- registrator - Service registry bridge for Docker by @gliderlabs and @progrium
- Blockbridge - 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 - an open-source Docker volume driver that can snapshot, backup and restore Docker volumes anywhere. By @rancher
- Docker Machine NFS Activates NFS for an existing boot2docker box created through Docker Machine on OS X.
- Docker Unison 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 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 - S3 compatible object storage server in Docker containers
- Netshare 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 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)