Docker

Docker makes the tools many developers use to build, share and run software in containers. The company has extended that work to AI agents, running each agent session in an isolated microVM and giving security teams one console for policy and audit logs.

What Docker offers

• Docker Desktop — builds and runs containerised applications on a developer's own machine.
• Docker Hub — a registry for finding and sharing container images.
• Sandboxes and AI Governance — locked-down environments for coding agents, local or in the cloud, with policy controls across teams.
• MCP tooling and Model Runner — a gateway for Model Context Protocol tools and local inference for large language models.
• Hardened Images and Scout — minimal, signed and regularly patched base images plus supply-chain analysis.
• Offload — moves heavy workloads off the laptop.

Who it works with

Docker serves individual developers on a free Personal plan as well as professionals, teams and enterprise security staff. It also publishes documentation, training and an extensions SDK.

Key facts

• Standards: OCI-compliant and platform-independent
• Supply chain: hardened images meet SLSA Level 3
• Isolation: microVM sandboxes for agent sessions