docker-desktop

Top 5 Docker Desktop Features Developers Must Know About

Tyler Charboneau
Apr 5 2022

Built atop Docker Engine—our open-source container runtime—Docker Desktop is ideal for developers needing greatly expanded Docker functionality, regardless of experience level. Docker Desktop is ready to use out of the box. It packages together Docker’s CLI, Docker...

Join our new Docker Desktop Developer Preview Program!

Ben De St Paer-Gotch
Apr 3 2020

Docker Desktop is getting ready to celebrate its fourth birthday in June this year. We have come a long way from our first version and have big plans of what we would like to do next. As part of our future plans we are going to be kicking off a new early access...

Helping You and Your Development Team Build and Ship Faster

Justin Graham
Mar 10 2020

I remember the first time one of my co-workers told me about Docker. There is a longer story behind it, but it ended with “it was so easy and saved me so much time.” That compelled me to install Docker and try it for myself. Yup, she was right. Easy, simple,...

Helping Developers Simplify Apps, Toolchains, and Open Source

Scott Johnston
Mar 9 2020

It’s been an exciting four months since we announced that Docker is refocusing on developers. We have spent much of that time listening to you, our developer community, in meetups, on GitHub, through social media, with our Docker Captains, and in face-to-face...

Docker Desktop for Windows Home is here!

Ben De St Paer-Gotch
Mar 5 2020

Last year we announced that Docker had released a preview of Docker Desktop with WSL 2 integration. We are now pleased to announce that we have completed the work to enable experimental support for Windows Home WSL 2 integration. This means that Windows Insider users...

Getting Started with Istio Using Docker Desktop

Elton Stoneman
Feb 18 2020

This is a guest post from Docker Captain Elton Stoneman, a Docker alumni who is now a freelance consultant and trainer, helping organizations at all stages of their container journey. Elton is the author of the book Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, and numerous...

Hack Week: How Docker Drives Innovation from the Inside

Robert Duffner
Feb 10 2020

Since its founding, Docker’s mission has been to help developers bring their ideas to life by conquering the complexity of app development. With millions of Docker developers worldwide, Docker is the de facto standard for building and sharing containerized apps. ...

Introducing the Docker Index: Insight from the World’s Most Popular Container Registry

John Kreisa
Feb 4 2020

8 billion pulls! Yes, that’s billion with a B! This number represents a little known level of activity and innovation happening across the community and ecosystem, all in just one average month. How do we know? From the number of pulls and most popular images to top...

Docker Desktop release 2.2 is here!

Ben De St Paer-Gotch
Jan 21 2020

We are excited to announce that we released a new Docker Desktop version today! Thanks to the user feedback on the new features initially released in the Edge channel, we are now ready to publish them into Stable. Before getting to each feature into detail,...