Docker

About Docker

Docker, Inc. is a privately held software company associated with the Docker container-development ecosystem. Docker's own history marks March 15, 2013, when founder Solomon Hykes publicly demonstrated Docker at PyCon, as the beginning of the modern Docker product story. The company helped make container-based application packaging and development widely accessible to software teams and became closely associated with the developer workflow of building, sharing, and running applications in consistent environments. Docker's corporate history includes a major strategic reset in 2019. The company sold its enterprise platform business to Mirantis and completed a recapitalization backed by existing investors. Docker said at the time that the remaining business would focus on developer workflows, especially Docker Desktop and Docker Hub. That transaction matters when evaluating the company today because older references to Docker Enterprise describe a business that was transferred to Mirantis rather than the current Docker, Inc. product strategy. Docker is led by Chief Executive Officer Don Johnson, who took the role on February 12, 2025, succeeding Scott Johnston. Docker strengthened its leadership team again on August 18, 2026 by appointing Mat Velloso as Chief Product Officer and Vinh Le as Chief Financial Officer. The company framed those appointments around its expansion into AI-powered developer tooling, secure agent workflows, and platform governance. Docker's current corporate positioning extends its original container-development mission into AI-native and agentic software development. The company says more than 20 million developers use Docker and describes its role as helping development teams and enterprises simplify the complexity of AI-native development while applying governance and security throughout the software lifecycle. This strategy uses Docker's existing strength in isolated, reproducible environments as a foundation for newer workloads such as AI models and autonomous development agents. Docker's business model combines subscriptions with usage-based cloud services. The company sells commercial access and enterprise capabilities to individual professionals, teams, and large organizations while continuing to support a substantial open source ecosystem. Docker Engine and projects in the Moby ecosystem remain distinct from Docker's commercial subscription services, creating a business model in which widely adopted open technology coexists with paid productivity, collaboration, hosted, security, and governance services. The company's 2019 restructuring is also relevant to its approach to open source and commercial software. Docker retained its developer-facing business after selling the enterprise platform division and continued investing in tooling that developers use directly. For buyers, this means Docker should be assessed as a developer-platform vendor with both open source roots and commercial services rather than as a conventional enterprise infrastructure suite. Security and governance have become increasingly important to Docker's corporate strategy. Docker maintains public trust, privacy, compliance, data-processing, and vulnerability-disclosure resources. Its legal and privacy documents identify Docker, Inc. as the contracting and data-controller entity for relevant services. Organizations considering Docker broadly should review these company-level commitments together with the service-specific controls that apply to the products they intend to deploy. Docker's current legal documentation lists its U.S. address as 3790 El Camino Real, Suite 1052, Palo Alto, California 94306. Its January 2026 privacy policy publishes +1 415-941-0376. These details are taken from Docker-controlled legal materials rather than inferred from third-party business directories. Docker remains a private company, so public financial disclosure is more limited than it is for listed software vendors. The company does not publish the same recurring audited revenue, workforce, or segment information available from public-company SEC filings. BrandLigo therefore leaves employee-size information unset rather than estimating it from third-party databases. For organizations evaluating Docker as a long-term vendor, the company-level questions include strategic dependence on Docker-operated services, the balance between open source components and commercial products, enterprise support expectations, data-processing obligations, security governance, and the pace at which Docker is expanding into newer AI and agent use cases. Detailed product architecture, plan entitlements, pricing, and Docker Desktop capabilities are covered separately on the Docker brand and Docker Desktop pages to avoid duplicating the same information across the catalogue.

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