Inspired by [@sindresorhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus)' [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) and improved by these **[amazing contributors](https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker/graphs/contributors)**.
It's now a github project because it's considerably easier for other people to edit, fix and expand on Docker using Github. Just click [README.md](https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker/edit/master/README.md).
If this list is not complete, you can [contribute](https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker/edit/master/README.md) to make it so.
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> Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.
* [Getting Started with Docker](https://serversforhackers.com/articles/2014/03/20/getting-started-with-docker/) by [@fideloper](https://github.com/fideloper) -- [Servers For Hackers](https://serversforhackers.com/editions/) is valuable resource. At some point, every programmer finds themselves needing to know their way around a server.
* [Creating containers - Part 1](http://crosbymichael.com/creating-containers-part-1.html) This is part one of a series of blog posts detailing how docker creates containers. By [@crosbymichael](https://github.com/crosbymichael)
* [Using Fig and Flocker to build, test, deploy and migrate multi-server Dockerized apps](https://clusterhq.com/blog/fig-flocker-multi-server-docker-apps/)
* [blimp](https://github.com/tubesandlube/blimp) Uses Docker Machine to easily move a container from one Docker host to another, show containers running against all of your hosts, replicate a container across multiple hosts and more. By [@defermat](https://github.com/defermat) and [@schvin](https://github.com/schvin)
* [Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker](http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/03/25/automated-nginx-reverse-proxy-for-docker/) by [@jwilder](https://github.com/jwilder)
* [A Simple Way to Dockerize Applications](http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/10/13/a-simple-way-to-dockerize-applications) by [@jwilder](https://github.com/jwilder)
* [Make Your Docker Workflow Awesome With Fig.sh](http://www.syncano.com/docker-workflow-fig-sh/) Fig is a python application that helps you run groups of docker containers.
* [Docker and Phoenix: How to Make Your Continuous Integration More Awesome](http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2014/12/docker-and-phoenix-how-to-make-your-continuous-integration-more-awesome.html)
* [Building Docker Images for Static Go Binaries](https://medium.com/@kelseyhightower/optimizing-docker-images-for-static-binaries-b5696e26eb07) by [@kelseyhightower](https://github.com/kelseyhightower)
* [Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator](http://progrium.com/blog/2014/09/10/automatic-docker-service-announcement-with-registrator/)
* [Security Best Practices for Building Docker Images](http://linux-audit.com/tag/docker/)
* [Docker Security: Are Your Containers Tightly Secured to the Ship? SlideShare](http://fr.slideshare.net/MichaelBoelen/docker-security-are-your-containers-tightly-secured-to-the-ship)
* [Tuning Docker with the newest security enhancements](https://opensource.com/business/15/3/docker-security-tuning)
* [Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7](http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/08/19/performance-analysis-docker-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7/)
* [Distrubuted JMeter testing using Docker](http://srivaths.blogspot.fr/2014/08/distrubuted-jmeter-testing-using-docker.html?m=1)
* [nsinit: per-container resource monitoring of Docker containers on RHEL/Fedora](http://www.breakage.org/2014/09/03/nsinit-per-container-resource-monitoring-of-docker-containers-on-rhelfedora/)
* [Docker in Practice](http://manning.com/miell/?a_aid=zwischenzugs&a_bid=e0d48f62) by Ian Miell ([@ianmiell](https://github.com/ianmiell)) and Aidan Hobson Sayers ([@aidanhs](https://github.com/aidanhs)). ==> [Website](http://docker-in-practice.github.io/)
* [GoSu](https://github.com/tianon/gosu) ("run this specific application as this specific user and get out of the pipeline" -- entrypoint script tool) by [@tianon](https://github.com/tianon)
* [ns-enter](https://github.com/jpetazzo/nsenter) (no more ssh, enter name spaces of container) by [@jpetazzo](https://github.com/jpetazzo)
* [Squid-in-a-can](https://github.com/jpetazzo/squid-in-a-can) (in case of proxy problem) by [@jpetazzo](https://github.com/jpetazzo/)
* [docker-gen](https://github.com/jwilder/docker-gen) (Generate files from docker container meta-data) by [@jwilder](https://github.com/jwilder)
* [dockerize](https://github.com/jwilder/dockerize) (Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers) by [@jwilder](https://github.com/jwilder)
* [registrator](https://github.com/progrium/registrator) (Service registry bridge for Docker) by [@progrium](https://github.com/progrium)
* [Dockly](https://github.com/swipely/dockly): Dockly is a gem made to ease the pain of packaging an application in Docker.
* [docker-volumes](https://github.com/cpuguy83/docker-volumes) (Docker Volume Manager) by [@cpuguy83](https://github.com/cpuguy83)
* [dockerfile_lint](https://github.com/redhataccess/dockerfile_lint) (A rule-based 'linter' for Dockerfiles) by [@redhataccess](https://github.com/redhataccess)
* [Vagga](https://github.com/tailhook/vagga) (Vagga is a containerisation tool without daemons. It is a fully-userspace container engine inspired by Vagrant and Docker, specialized for development environments.) by [@tailhook](https://github.com/tailhook/)
* [Docker plugin for Jenkins](https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker-plugin/) - The aim of the docker plugin is to be able to use a docker host to dynamically provision a slave, run a single build, then tear-down that slave.
* [Giant Swarm](https://giantswarm.io/) - Simple microservice infrastructure. Deploy your containers in seconds.
* [Triton](https://www.joyent.com/) - Elastic container-native infrastructure by Joyent.
* [Amazon ECS](http://aws.amazon.com/ecs/) - A management service on EC2 that supports Docker containers.
* [Google Container Engine](https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/) - Docker containers on Google Cloud Computing powered by [Kubernetes][kubernetes].
* [Docker Registry Web](https://github.com/atc-/docker-registry-web) (A web UI for easy private/local Docker Registry integration) by [@atc-](https://github.com/atc-)
* [DockerUI](https://github.com/crosbymichael/dockerui) (DockerUI is a web interface to interact with the Remote API.) by [@crosbymichael](https://github.com/crosbymichael)
* [DockerBoard](https://github.com/dockerboard/dockerboard) (Simple dashboards, visualizations, managements for your dockers.) by [@dockerboard](https://github.com/dockerboard)
* [Shutit](http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/) (a tool for building and maintaining complex Docker deployments) by [@ianmiell](https://github.com/ianmiell)
* [OctoHost](http://www.octohost.io/) (Simple web focused Docker based mini-PaaS server. git push to deploy your websites as needed) by [@octohost](https://github.com/octohost)
* [Vagrant - Docker provider ](http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/docker/basics.html) a good starting point is [vagrant-docker-example](https://github.com/bubenkoff/vagrant-docker-example) by [@bubenkoff](https://github.com/bubenkoff)
* [Busybox](https://github.com/jpetazzo/docker-busybox) (with either `buildroot` or Ubuntu's `busybox-static`) by [@jpetazzo](https://github.com/jpetazzo)
* [Busybox](https://github.com/progrium/busybox) (with `opkg`) by [@progrium](https://github.com/progrium) [@deprecated use [docker-alpine](https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine) instead]
* [passenger-docker](https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker) (Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps) by [@phusion](https://github.com/phusion)
* [docker-alpine](https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine) (A super small Docker base image *(5MB)* using Alpine Linux) by [@gliderlabs](https://github.com/gliderlabs)
* [Dockerfile Project](http://dockerfile.github.io/) : Trusted Automated Docker Builds. Dockerfile Project maintains a central repository of Dockerfile for various popular open source software services runnable on a Docker container.
* [Sysdig](http://www.sysdig.org/): An open source troubleshooting tool that provides a rich set of real-time, system-level information. It has container-specific features and is very useful in Docker environments.
* [Zabbix Docker module](https://github.com/jangaraj/Zabbix-Docker-Monitoring): Zabbix module that provides discovery of running containers, CPU/memory/blk IO/net container metrics. Systemd Docker and LXC execution driver is also supported. It's a dynamically linked shared object library, so its performance is (~10x) better, than any script solution.
* [Weave][weave] (The Docker network) -- Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts.
## Logging
* [LogJam](https://github.com/gocardless/logjam) (Logjam is a log forwarder designed to listen on a local port, receive log entries over UDP, and forward these messages on to a log collecton server (such as logstash).)
* [Docker-Fluentd](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/kiyoto/docker-fluentd/): Docker container to Log Other Containers' Logs. One can aggregate the logs of Docker containers running on the same host using Fluentd.
* [Centurion](https://github.com/newrelic/centurion): Centurion is a mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. It takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings.
* [Clocker](https://github.com/brooklyncentral/clocker): Clocker creates and manages a Docker cloud infrastructure. Clocker supports single-click deployments and runtime management of multi-node applications that run as containers distributed across multiple hosts. It leverages [Weave][weave] for networking and [Brooklyn][boorklyn] for application blueprints.
* [Docket](https://github.com/netvarun/docket): Custom docker registry that allows for lightning fast deploys through bittorrent by [@netvarun](https://github.com/netvarun/)
* [Longshoreman](https://github.com/longshoreman/longshoreman): Longshoreman automates application deployment using Docker. Just create a Docker repository (or use a service), configure the cluster using AWS or Digital Ocean (or whatever you like) and deploy applications using a Heroku-like CLI tool.
* [Docker container on Mesos](https://mesosphere.com/learn/launch-docker-container-on-mesosphere/) (Docker plus Mesosphere provides an easy way to automate and scale deployment of containers in a production environment.)
* [Marathon](https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/docs/) (Marathon is a private PaaS built on Mesos. It automatically handles hardware or software failures and ensures that an app is "always on".)
* [Flocker](https://github.com/ClusterHQ/flocker) (Flocker is a data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool) by [@ClusterHQ](https://github.com/ClusterHQ)
* [Decking](http://decking.io/): (Decking aims to simplify the creation, organsation and running of clusters of Docker containers in a way which is familiar to developers.)
* [Maestro](https://github.com/toscanini/maestro): (Maestro provides the ability to easily launch, orchestrate and manage mulitiple Docker containers as single unit.)
* [Docker Grand Ambassador](https://github.com/cpuguy83/docker-grand-ambassador) This is a fully dynamic docker link ambassador. + [Article](http://docs.docker.com/articles/ambassador_pattern_linking/)
* [Docker for Developers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdkNAjjO5yQ) (54:26) by [@jpetazzo](https://github.com/jpetazzo) <== Good introduction, context, demo
