Docker, Inc

The main area of ​ ​ activity is the development of Docker - ON automation of deployment and application control in an environment virtualizations at the level. operating system Linux Docker is the developer of the open platform of the same name and the main sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators, which the latter use to create, implement, manage and integrate containers applications. Docker technologies will allow IT companies to reduce application time to market from months to minutes, easily distribute workloads between data centers and the cloud, and increase utilization of existing infrastructure by more than 50%. Docker's services have so far been downloaded more than 57 million times and are used by thousands of global companies - leaders in innovation, including eBay, Baidu, Yelp,, Spotify Yandex and Cambridge HealthCare.

Docker is a venture capital project supported by AME Cloud Ventures (Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang), Benchmark (Peter Fenton), Greylock Partners (Jerry Chen), Insight Venture Partners (Jerry Murdock), Sequoia Capital (Bill Coughran), SV Angel (Ron Conway), Trinity Ventures (Dan Scholnick), Y Combinator.

History

2024: Dismissal of 10% of employees due to lack of money

In October 2024, it became known that one of the world's largest manufacturers of IT containers Docker laid off 10% of employees due to lack of money. Information about massive cuts in the company was released a few months after its departure from the Russian market.

The Docker Hub platform ceased operation on the territory on May 30, 2024. Russia Docker has announced the blocking of all IP addresses from six countries, including,, Russia,,, and To cube Iran, North Korea Sudan without Syria prior notification to users.

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The restriction affects not only the ability to download and download images, but also receive technical support even for users with a valid subscription. The company has completely eliminated the possibility of acquiring subscriptions from these countries.

Specialists of the Ural Center for Security Systems warn of the increased risks of cyber attacks on supply chains in connection with the emergence of unofficial service mirrors. Experts recommend that organizations create their own container registry to store images locally.

To ensure security, developers are advised to use SHA hash image checking, implement the practice of signing containers and verifying signatures, as well as use the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) - a list of dependencies and components of the service.

As alternative solutions, experts suggest using open source tools such as Gitlab, Harbor and Artifactory to create their own repositories. It is recommended to use SCA analysis tools, including Snyk and Trivy, to check containers for vulnerabilities.

Docker did not make official statements about the blocking, with the exception of a publication in a corporate blog on March 8, 2022 about the company's reaction to events in Ukraine. Experts emphasize the importance of regularly updating and checking SBOMs before and after building applications, as well as when creating target images.

2022: Raising $105 million

Docker has raised more than $100 million in funding. This became known on April 7, 2022.

After the sale of Mirantis's corporate division in 2019, Docker rebuilt all its work, focusing primarily on developers of containerized applications.

Private equity firms Bain Capital Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, Citi Ventures and others have invested another $105 million in Docker. In 2019, Docker sold its corporate division to Mirantis, and since then the total amount of investments it has attracted has reached $163 million, and the company's valuation has reached $2.1 billion.

Docker was forced to rebuild all the work - a strategy for product development, entering the market, a business model - said Docker CEO Scott Johnston in an interview with InfoWorld. Now the company is focused primarily on developers of containerized applications. They support the Docker Hub container image repository, various container assembly tools and the Docker Desktop application, which the company made paid for corporate users in 2021. Further development of Docker's container platform will be primarily due to improved container security, as well as increased support for new application architectures - including serverless ones and using WebAssembly^[1] technology^[2].

2019: Mirantis acquires portion of Docker Enterprise platform business

On November 18, 2019, TAdviser became aware that Mirantis, specializing in the development and support of cloud solutions based on OpenStack, bought a key part of the Docker Enterprise platform business from Docker Inc. Read more here.

2014: IBM and Docker announce strategic partnership to build business applications in the cloud and locally

In December 2014, IBM and Docker announced a strategic partnership that will allow enterprises to more quickly and cost-effectively develop and run next-generation applications in the cloud using the IBM Cloud service and locally based on the Docker open platform. With the collaboration of IBM and Docker, enterprises will have the opportunity to leverage the achievements of both companies to create and manage a new generation of portable distributed applications that are quickly built on Docker container technologies, have a dynamic life cycle, and can be launched directly from the developer's laptop, as well as numerous hosting sites in the cloud.

As Docker's first end-to-end partner, IBM will become a leading provider of Docker Hub Enterprise (DHE), Docker's flagship enterprise market product. DHE allows enterprises to automate the creation and deployment of applications running on multiple servers, which in turn allows developers to focus on creating various services under firewall protection, as well as their integration with the best examples of Docker services, the number of which in the Docker Hub database currently exceeds 60 thousand.

By partnering with IBM, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions based on Synergy Research, both companies will be able to run on the open Docker platform and use new APIs to create and manage distributed applications. Development, implementation and maintenance of multi-content and multi-hosting applications in the cloud will also become more effective. In addition, this partnership will increase developer productivity and accelerate time to market for smart applications that, thanks to IBM technologies, will have a high level of security and integration with major existing enterprise systems, including service management and DevOps.

As part of the partnership agreement, IBM also announced the beta version of IBM Containers, a container service that is based on Docker and includes its original functions and interfaces, including new tools for harmonious interaction of services. As part of BlueMix - IBM's open cloud platform for application development - IBM Containers will allow enterprises to deploy Docker containers directly in the IBM cloud using IBM SoftLayer servers without a pre-installed operating system. With Docker's container technologies, organizations will get an easy-to-manage and more flexible user environment model with high utilization and performance, expanding the range of available applications that IBM Cloud supports.

IBM plans to promote Docker Hub Enterprise in conjunction with these end-to-end solutions and as a standalone product. IBM will demonstrate the first results of its integration with Docker at its DockerCon EU booth.

2013: Renamed Docker

The company started under the name dotCloud, in 2008. In October 2013, dotCloud was renamed Docker.