> **Please**, help organize these resources so that they are _easy to find_ and _understand_ for new comers. See how to **[Contribute](https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)**
> 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)
* [Understanding Modern Service Discovery with Docker](http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/29/understanding-modern-service-discovery-with-docker/)
* [Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator](http://progrium.com/blog/2014/09/10/automatic-docker-service-announcement-with-registrator/)
* [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/)
* [Shutit](http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/) (a tool for building and maintaining complex Docker deployments) by [@ianmiell](https://github.com/ianmiell)
* [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)
* [dockerize](https://github.com/jwilder/dockerize) (Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers) by [@jwilder](https://github.com/jwilder)
* [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)
* [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)
* [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.
* [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)
* [Launch 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 mulitple Docker containers as single unit.
* [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 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/)
* [confd](http://www.confd.io/): Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
## Deployment and Infrastructure
* [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.
* [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.
* [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.
