Developing apps today is not just about writing code. There are multiple languages, frameworks, architectures, and discontinuous interfaces between tools for each lifecycle stage creates enormous complexity. Docker today simplifies and accelerates your workflow, while giving developers the freedom to innovate with their choice of tools, application stacks, and deployment environments for each project.
Docker is a suite of software development tools for creating, sharing and running containers. Developers love Docker because it helps them to accelerate how they build, share, and run modern applications. Moreover, 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.
Docker developer tools falls into two major categories:
- Docker-Integrated developer Tools
- Open Source Developer Tools
Docker-Integrated Developer Tools
docker build – Easily create and share portable Docker container images using open standards
docker buildx – Extended build capabilities with Buildkit
docker compose – Build and Manage multiple services in Docker containers
docker scan – Quickly detect and learn how to remediate CVEs in your Docker image
docker context – Manages multiple Swarm clusters, Kubernetes clusters and Docker nodes
docker sbom – Generate the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) of a container image
docker extensions – Use 3rd party tools within Docker Desktop to extend its functionality
docker trust – Manage trust on Docker Images
Open Source Developer Tools
Image Slim
DockerSlim – Minify and Secure Docker containers
Minicon – Minimization of the filesystem for containers
Watchtower – A process for automating Docker container base image updates
Syft – CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
Image Build Toolkit
BuildKit – Toolkit for converting source code to build artifacts in an efficient, expressive and repeatable manner
Dive – Tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
Docker-Squash – Squashing helps with organizing images in logical layers.
Docker-Diun – Docker image update notifier
Trivy – Trivy is a container image scanner which uncovers known vulnerabilities.
vbaksa/promoter – Docker Image promotion tool
Argo Watcher – A small tool that will wait for the specific docker image to be rolled out
Terrier – Terrier is a Image and Container analysis tool that can be used to scan Images and Containers to identify and verify the presence of specific files according to their hashes
PHPQA – Docker image that provides static analysis tools for PHP
Docker Registry Pruner – Tool to apply retention logic to docker images in a Docker Registry
tini – A tiny but valid init for containers
Image Utilties
Bing Daily Images – A docker container that downloads bing daily images for you
Dockerfile Tools & Metrics
Haskell Dockerfile Linter – Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
ctop – Top-like interface for container metrics
Image Security
TerraScan –Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure
Clair – Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers
Trivy – Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts, Suitable for CI – Aqua Security
DeepSource – Static Analysis for DockerFiles
DockerScan – A Docker analysis & hacking tools
Container-diff – container-diff is a tool for analyzing and comparing container images. container-diff can examine images along several different criteria.
Docker CLI
Docker Buildx – a CLI plugin that extends the docker command with the full support of the features provided by Moby BuildKit builder toolkit.
Lazy Docker – A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library.
DockerHub
DockerHub Scraper – Scraping DockerHub
Deployment Tool
Fleetform – A tool to apply docker container infrastructure as code in a very simple human readable way
Docker Volume
Flocker – Data Volume Manager for your Dockerized applications.
offen/docker-volume-backup – Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3 or WebDAV compatible storage
Cloud-Job
Launcha – Launcha is a docker-based cloud job launcher.
Runtime Security
Tracee – Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
CetusGuard – Tool that allows to protect the Docker daemon socket by filtering the calls to its API endpoints
Container Orchestration
Miniboss – Manages container locally
Portainer – Making Docker management easy. https://www.portainer.io
Drone – continuous delivery system built on container technology
Kubernetes – most popular container orchestration engine
Amazon ECS – highly scalable management service which allows developers to run containerized applications on EC2 instances.
Ryuk – Remove containers/networks/volumes/images by given filter after specified delay.
Traefik – Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy that’s easy to integrate with container workloads.
Docker Context – Makes it easy to switch between multiple Docker and Kubernetes environments.
Browser
kde-in-docker – Run KDE inside a browser
Portus – 3D Docker containers viewer built with Electron, React and Three Fiber
Cluster Management
Nebula – designed to manage massive clusters at scale.
Machine Learning
Paddle Serving – A flexible, high-performance carrier for machine learning models
Android app
Android-Docker – A Docker image for building and testing Android apps.
Development
Konveyor Move2Kube – Automatically create Dockerfiles, Kubernetes Yamls, Helm charts and other Infrastructure as Code Artifacts for your application.
Docksal – tool for defining and managing web development environments.
Chartbrew – Chartbrew is an open-source web application that can connect directly to databases and APIs and use the data to create beautiful charts.
Conan Docker – accelerating the development and Continuous Integration of C and C++ projects.
Workflow
Open Policy Registry – A Docker-inspired workflow for OPA policies
Networking
Libnetwork – Docker libnetwork plugin for Calico http://www.projectcalico.org
Libnetwork – networking for containers
Caddy Gen – Automated Caddy reverse proxy for docker containers
Swarm
Orbiter – Autoscaler for Docker Swarm
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