Docker
Subscription developer platform for containers, cloud builds and security.
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Company facts
- Official name
- Docker, Inc.
- Entity type
- COMPANY
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- United States
- Company size
- 501–1,000
- Market role
- B2B SaaS Provider
- Official website
- docker.com
What Docker does
Docker operates a product-led B2B software model built around a widely adopted container workflow. It provides free and paid developer tooling, then expands accounts through team collaboration, enterprise security, governance, support and managed cloud execution. Value is created by standardising local development, image distribution, testing, builds and security checks across the software delivery lifecycle, reducing friction between individual developers and enterprise platform teams.
Category differentiation
Docker is the independent developer-tools company behind Docker Desktop and Docker Hub. It is not the former Docker Enterprise platform business, which was acquired by Mirantis.
Strategic context
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Docker, Inc. is a private B2B SaaS company that sells developer tooling for containerised application development, testing, image distribution, software supply chain security and cloud build execution. Its core commercial products include Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud, Testcontainers Cloud, hardened images and newer AI-oriented workflow products. The company serves individual developers, engineering teams, DevOps functions, security teams and larger enterprises that need governed, repeatable container workflows. Docker makes money through tiered per-seat subscriptions, packaged product bundles, and consumption-based charges for cloud build and runtime capacity. Its strategy is to convert broad developer adoption into paid team and enterprise accounts by adding collaboration, governance, SSO, security, compliance and scalable remote execution. Docker is not the same business as Docker Enterprise, which was divested to Mirantis; the current company is centred on developer productivity and cloud-native software delivery.
Company news briefing
Briefing updated:
Docker has strengthened its executive leadership with the appointments of Mat Velloso as Chief Product Officer and Vinh Le as Chief Financial Officer, supporting the company's expansion into securing and governing agentic workflows. Alongside this leadership transition, Docker has launched self-serve applications for the Docker Verified Publisher programme on Docker Hub. These strategic initiatives consolidate Docker's focus on securing AI agent deployments while streamlining developer access to trusted content.
Business model & monetisation
Docker monetises through tiered software subscriptions and usage-based cloud consumption. Core products such as Docker Desktop, Docker Hub and Docker Scout are bundled into paid per-user plans for professional, team and business customers. Incremental revenue comes from metered build minutes and cloud runtime usage in products such as Docker Build Cloud and Testcontainers Cloud, alongside premium enterprise features including security scanning, hardened images, governance, compliance controls and commercial support.
- Developer and team subscriptions
- Software Subscription
- Enterprise subscriptions with security, SSO and governance
- Software Subscription
- Cloud build minutes and runtime consumption
- Pay-per-Use
- Hardened images and compliance-oriented add-ons
- Software Subscription
- Commercial support and services
- Service Fee
Products & capabilities
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Products & market categories
Recent recorded signals
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Docker Verified Publisher Applications Are Now Self-Serve
Recorded impact score: 3.5/5
Apply to become a Docker Verified Publisher (DVP) now directly through Docker Hub. Get your verified content seen first by devs looking for trusted options.
Deploying SigNoz with ClickHouse v25 and OTel Gotchas
Application Performance Monitoring · Recorded impact score: 1/5
A developer describes troubleshooting and deployment patterns for self-hosting SigNoz in 2026, focusing on ClickHouse v25 configuration changes, OpenTelemetry Collector incompatibilities, and Docker network isolation. Key recommendations include using config.d/users.d for ClickHouse overrides (instead of replacing the main config), enforcing a deterministic docker-compose boot sequence with one-shot migrator containers (signoz_init_clickhouse and signoz_telemetrystore_migrator), updating exporter names and image tags for the OTel collector (use signozclickhousemetrics and include the 'v' prefix), and relying on internal Docker network isolation rather than per-component passwords to simplify connectivity. The post emphasizes that maintaining self-hosted observability infrastructure requires ongoing engineering effort.
- Author self-hosted SigNoz for Verne Software to control telemetry data.
- ClickHouse v25+ changes require using config.d/ and users.d/ for overrides instead of replacing the main config file.
Docker Strengthens Leadership Team With Appointments of Mat Velloso as Chief Product Officer and Vinh Le as Chief Financial Officer
Recorded impact score: 4.5/5
PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 18, 2026 – Docker, Inc.®, the trusted platform for building software in the agentic era, today announced the appointments of Mat Velloso as Chief Product Officer and Vinh Le as Chief Financial Officer, strengthening the company’s leadership team as it expands its role in helping organizations secure and govern agentic workflows.
Sandboxing AI Agents: Tool Guards and Credential Boundaries
Conversational AI & Chatbots · Recorded impact score: 2/5
A Senior Software Engineer describes production practices for securing conversational AI agents built with Spring Boot and Spring AI. The article covers four defenses: wrapping tool callbacks with a guard that enforces policy, treating tool output as data (not instructions) with prompt and eval safeguards, redacting and preventing secrets from appearing in agent traces after a paper showed chain-of-thought leaks, and using least-privilege credentials as the agent's sandbox boundary. The author contrasts microVM sandboxes (Docker Sandboxes) for coding agents with policy-and-credential-based cages for backend tool-calling agents and provides a checklist and test-driven approach to enforce the guard and tenant isolation.
- Docker released Docker Sandboxes, a microVM-based product referenced for coding-agent isolation.
- The author implements a guard by wrapping every Spring AI ToolCallback at startup (GuardedToolCallback) and enforces ToolPolicy rules such as requiring an approval token for checkout, scoping order lookups to a conversation, and capping add-to-cart quantities.
Resilient Real-Time Systems with WebSockets & Redis Pub/Sub
Infrastructure · Recorded impact score: 1/5
This technical guide explains how to build resilient, low-latency real-time systems by combining persistent WebSocket client-server connections with Redis as a central pub/sub broadcast layer, distributed state store, and cache. It describes architectural patterns for scaling (single server, multiple WebSocket servers + single Redis, and Redis Cluster), and explains when to integrate durable queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ/AWS SQS) for persistence and guaranteed delivery. The article includes a concrete Node.js example (ws and ioredis: server.js, publisher.js, client.html) and Docker, plus client reconnection best practices (exponential backoff) and session persistence in Redis to allow resuming on another instance. Operational topics covered are Redis high availability (Sentinel/Cluster), sharding and serialization, backpressure handling, load balancing, security, idempotency, and monitoring. It also discusses operational deployment patterns, monitoring metrics, and security practices for production environments.
- Combines persistent WebSocket client connections with Redis Pub/Sub as a broadcast layer and Redis as a distributed state store and cache.
- Covers scaling patterns: single server, multiple WebSocket servers + single Redis, and multiple servers with Redis Cluster for sharding and horizontal scale.
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Questions about Docker
What is Docker?
Docker is a B2B software company that provides container development, image distribution, cloud build, testing and security tools for developers and enterprises.
Who uses Docker?
Software developers, DevOps teams, platform engineers, security teams and enterprise IT organisations use Docker to build, test, secure and ship containerised applications.
How does Docker make money?
Docker makes money from per-seat subscriptions for developer and enterprise plans, plus usage-based charges for cloud build and runtime services and premium security or governance features.
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