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Developers love Docker. Docker is a suite of software development tools for creating, sharing and running containers. Developers use Docker to accelerate how they build, share, and run modern applications. This repository was built with a purpose. It is being used by Collabnix community internally to target the most popular developer tools and technique and coming up with the best practices around these tools.

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Types of Docker Developer Tools

Docker Integrated Developer Tools

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	docker build	Easily create and share portable Docker container images using open standards
2	docker buildx	Extended build capabilities with Buildkit
3	docker compose	Build and Manage multiple services in Docker containers
4	docker context	Manages multiple Swarm clusters, Kubernetes clusters and Docker nodes
5	docker sbom	Generate the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) of a container image
6	docker extensions	Use 3rd party tools within Docker Desktop to extend its functionality
7	docker trust	Manage trust on Docker Images
8	docker dev	Run Dev Envs via command line
9	docker scout	A Software Supply Chain Security for Developers
10	docker init	Initialize a project with the files necessary to run the project in a container.
11	docker debug	debug your images while they contain the bare minimum to run your application

Open Source Developer Tools

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	DockerSlim	Minify and Secure Docker containers
2	Minicon	Minimization of the filesystem for containers
3	Watchtower	A process for automating Docker container base image updates
4	Syft	CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
5	gitlab-ci-image-scanner (gcis)	executes security scan over all Docker images used in all CI files
6	Watchtower	A process for automating Docker container base image updates
7	dockcross	Cross compiling toolchains in Docker images.
8	fluentd	collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure
9	Logspout	Logspout is a log router for Docker containers that runs inside Docker
10	Packer	Packer is an automated system that helps create images for containers and virtual machines. It is a lightweight application and works with most major operating systems.
11	Flannel	Flannel is a networking tool that helps connect multiple docker containers. It creates an overlay mesh network that resolves the issues faced when creating subnets.
12	Whalewall	Automate management of firewall rules for Docker containers
13	Whale	Tool to automatically dockerize your application.
14	Consul	Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
15	Corrator	A tool to verify the versions of apps used inside docker containers.
16	sumologic	Setup image for the Sumologic Kubernetes Collection.
17	Dedockify	Reverse engineer Docker images into Dockerfiles.
18	Openresty	Docker tooling for OpenResty
19	Oxker	A simple gui to view & control docker containers.
20	Dockerdot	dockerdot shows dockerfile dependenciy graph. This is useful to understand how build dockerfile. This uses Go WebAssembly + BuildKit package..

Image Build Toolkit

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	BuildKit	Toolkit for converting source code to build artifacts in an efficient, expressive and repeatable manner
2	Dive	Tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
3	Docker-Squash	Squashing helps with organizing images in logical layers.
4	Docker-Diun	Docker image update notifier
5	Trivy	Trivy is a container image scanner which uncovers known vulnerabilities.
6	vbaksa/promoter	Docker Image promotion tool
7	Argo Watcher	A small tool that will wait for the specific docker image to be rolled out
8	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
9	PHPQA	Docker image that provides static analysis tools for PHP
10	Docker Registry Pruner	Tool to apply retention logic to docker images in a Docker Registry
11	tini	A tiny but valid init for containers
12	Modus	Modus is a language for building Docker/OCI container images.

Image Utilties

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Bing Daily Images -	A docker container that downloads bing daily images for you

Testing Tools

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Kurtosis - Kurtosis is a composable build system for reproducible test environments

Dockerfile Tools & Metrics

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	Haskell Dockerfile Linter	Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
2	ctop	Top-like interface for container metrics
3	Dfimage	Reverse-engineers a Dockerfile from a Docker image.
4	bctx	packing and uploading docker build contex
5	Buildg master	buildg is a tool to interactively debug Dockerfile based on BuildKit.

Debugger

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Gebug	A tool that makes debugging of Dockerized Go applications super easy by enabling Debugger and Hot-Reload features, seamlessly
2	Sidekick	Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running.

Image Security

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	TerraScan	Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure
2	Clair	Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers
3	Trivy	Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts, Suitable for CI - Aqua Security
4	DeepSource	Static Analysis for DockerFiles
5	DockerScan	A Docker analysis & hacking tools
6	Container-diff	container-diff is a tool for analyzing and comparing container images. container-diff can examine images along several different criteria.
7	SecretScanner	🔓 🔓 Find secrets and passwords in container images and file systems 🔓 🔓
8	TerraScan	Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure

Docker CLI

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	Docker Buildx	A CLI plugin that extends the docker command with the full support of the features provided by Moby BuildKit builder toolkit.
2	Regi	Regi is a CLI tool for managing your accessibility to multiple Docker registries.
3	Lazy Docker	A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library.
4	Kitt	Kitt is a container based portable shell environment.
5	Dredge	A Docker Registry Client CLI

DockerHub

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	DockerHub Scraper	Scraping DockerHub

Deployment Tool

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	Fleetform	A tool to apply docker container infrastructure as code in a very simple human readable way
2	Swarmsible	Simple Ansible based Tooling for setting up and managing a production grade Docker Swarm on Ubuntu 18.04/20.04.
3	Jenkins	Jenkins is a top open-source automation tool that empowers Docker developers around the globe to build, test, and deploy their software reliably.
4	TravisCI	Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Perforce, Apache Subversion, and Assembla
5	CircleCI	CircleCI has impeccable speed and is among the best CI tools. Its fast pipelines will help accelerate your business

Docker Volume

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Flocker	Data Volume Manager for your Dockerized applications.
2	offen/docker-volume-backup	Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3 or WebDAV compatible storage

Cloud-Job

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Launcha	Launcha is a docker-based cloud job launcher.

Runtime Security

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	Tracee	Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
2	CetusGuard	Tool that allows to protect the Docker daemon socket by filtering the calls to its API endpoints
3	Tetragon -	eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement
4	Falco	Runtime security and threat detection project

Container Orchestration

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	Miniboss	Manages container locally
2	Portainer	Making Docker management easy. https://www.portainer.io
3	Drone	Continuous delivery system built on container technology
4	Kubernetes	Most popular container orchestration engine
5	Amazon ECS	Highly scalable management service which allows developers to run containerized applications on EC2 instances.
6	Ryuk	Remove containers/networks/volumes/images by given filter after specified delay.
7	Traefik	Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy that’s easy to integrate with container workloads.
8	Docker Context	Makes it easy to switch between multiple Docker and Kubernetes environments.
9	luet	Container-based Package manager

Browser

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	kde-in-docker	Run KDE inside a browser
2	Portus	3D Docker containers viewer built with Electron, React and Three Fiber
3	snek	Snek simplifies the process of porting software to multiple platforms. Uses @docker 20.10.12+

Cluster Management

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Nebula	Designed to manage massive clusters at scale.

Machine Learning

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Paddle Serving	A flexible, high-performance carrier for machine learning models

Android app

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Android-Docker	A Docker image for building and testing Android apps.

Development Tool

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	envd	Development environment for AI/ML based on buildkit
2	Konveyor Move2Kube	Automatically create Dockerfiles, Kubernetes Yamls, Helm charts and other Infrastructure as Code Artifacts for your application.
3	Docksal	Tool for defining and managing web development environments.
4	Chartbrew	Chartbrew is an open-source web application that can connect directly to databases and APIs and use the data to create beautiful charts.
5	Conan Docker	Accelerating the development and Continuous Integration of C and C++ projects.
6	PHPQA	Docker image that provides static analysis tools for PHP
7	Jump	Jump is yet another self-hosted startpage for your server designed to be simple, stylish, fast and secure.

Workflow

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	An open source, general-purpose policy engine.	A Docker-inspired workflow for OPA policies

Networking

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL
1	Project Calico	Docker libnetwork plugin for Calico http://www.projectcalico.org
2	Libnetwork	Networking for containers
3	Caddy Gen	Automated Caddy reverse proxy for docker containers

Swarm

Serial No	Tool Name	Description with URL	GitHub Popularity
1	Orbiter	Autoscaler for Docker Swarm

Maintainer

Contributor

Mansi Mishra