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Docker Developer Tools

The fastest way to securely build, test, and share cloud-ready modern applications from your desktop.
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Integrate Docker With Your Development Environment

Docker’s developer tools are a set of Docker CLI plugins that make it easier than ever to build, test, and share containerized applications and microservices. Extending the functionality of Docker Engine, Compose and other core Docker APIs, these developer tools enhance collaboration, simplify how you manage Docker Apps, images and registries, and help you hand-off your finished code to CI/CD tools and your operations team. Docker’s development tools augment your normal code-build-test cycles and integrate directly with your preferred development environment.

Compose V2

Compose V2 accelerates your daily local development, build and run of multi-container applications. It provides an easy way for cloud deployment, tuning your application to different use-cases and environments and GPU support. This allows for a shorter development cycle and easy switch from development environment to the production environment.
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

Gain better visibility and understanding of what’s inside your container images with the Docker SBOM. Developed in open collaboration with Anchore using their Syft project, the Docker SBOM makes container images more transparent so you can easily see what is inside them. Quickly generate your SBOM at build time and that will be included as part of the image artifact, even if you move images between registries.
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Rapidly build, test and collaborate

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One Development and Delivery Platform

Docker’s developer tools extend the Docker platform to accelerate the building of containerized applications both existing and new. These tools are fully-integrated with Docker Desktop and registry tools to enable you to build, share and run the same applications everywhere.

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Any app, Any language

Docker developer tools give you the freedom to work with your preferred tools, application stacks, and deployment environments for each project.

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High-Velocity Innovation

Developers should not need to be Docker or Kubernetes experts to do their job. Docker developer tools make it easy to get up and running in minutes, even if you have never seen a single Dockerfile and have no time to learn it.

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Build and share applications that can run anywhere

Open, portable images

Docker Build is at the core of what makes Docker so popular. Easily create and share portable Docker container images using open standards. Create images for multiple CPU and OS architectures and share them in your private registry or on Docker Hub.

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Multi-environment support

Docker Context makes it easy to switch between multiple Docker and Kubernetes environments. Go from your workstation environment to test, staging, and production with a simple command instead of remembering complicated connection strings.

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Integrated with Docker Hub

Easily build Docker images with Docker Desktop and store them in Docker Hub. A single UI view in Docker Desktop to view images stored in multiple Docker Hub repositories. Configure a complete CI/CD container workflow with automated builds and actions triggered after each successful push to the Docker Hub registry.

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Choose a plan that’s right for you

Docker isn’t just for personal projects. Discover the perfect plan to empower your team and streamline your workflow.
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