# Docker, Inc.

> Docker, Inc. builds the toolchain that put containers into the daily vocabulary of software development. From Docker Desktop to Docker Hub to Docker Scout, the company helps roughly 20 million developers package, share, and run applications anywhere - and is now extending that same packaging logic to AI models and agents.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Solomon Hykes (Co-founder, former CTO), Sebastien Pahl (Co-founder), Kamel Founadi (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~950
- **Products:** Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud, Docker Compose
- **Notable:** Created the container format and runtime that became an industry standard, now stewarded by the OCI., Hit 100,000 downloads within seven months of launch in 2013., Reached unicorn status in 2015.

## Products & services

- **Docker Desktop** — The one-click developer environment for building and running containers on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
- **Docker Hub** — The world's largest public registry of container images, with billions of monthly pulls.
- **Docker Scout** — Supply-chain and vulnerability insights for container images.
- **Docker Build Cloud** — Remote, shared build cache that speeds up CI and local image builds.
- **Docker Compose** — A spec and tool for defining multi-container apps - now extended to AI agent stacks.
- **Docker Hardened Images** — Minimal, signed, attested base images for enterprise security teams.
- **Docker Model Runner** — Run open-weight AI models locally with the same workflow as containers.
- **Docker MCP Catalog & Toolkit** — A catalog and runtime for Model Context Protocol servers used by AI agents.

## Achievements

- Created the container format and runtime that became an industry standard, now stewarded by the OCI.
- Hit 100,000 downloads within seven months of launch in 2013.
- Reached unicorn status in 2015.
- Donated runc and containerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
- Powered the container layer behind Kubernetes' early adoption.
- Returned to growth post-2019 with a developer-first subscription model.

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Don Johnson named CEO, succeeding Scott Johnston after nearly a decade.
- **2025-03** — Mark Cavage joins as President and COO from Oracle Cloud.
- **2025-04** — Docker Model Runner and MCP Toolkit expand the AI developer stack.
- **2024-10** — Docker Hardened Images announced for enterprise security teams.

## Links

- Website: https://www.docker.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/docker
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/docker
- GitHub: https://github.com/docker
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DockerIo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/docker.run

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