Docker, Inc.

Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops productivity tools built around Docker, which automates the deployment of code inside software containers via OS-level virtualization. Major commercial products of the company are Docker Hub, a central repository of containers, and Docker Desktop, a GUI application for Windows, Linux and macOS to manage containers. The historic offering was Docker Enterprise PaaS business, acquired by Mirantis. The company is also an active contributor to various CNCF projects, such as containerd and runC. The main open source offering of the company are Docker Engine and buildkit, which are rebranded under the Moby umbrella project. The core specification, Dockerfile, still includes the company trademark, however. The company was founded as dotCloud in 2008 by Kamel Founadi, Solomon Hykes, and Sebastien Pahl in Paris, and incorporated in the United States in 2010. In July 2013, Benjamin Golub (formerly of Plaxo and Gluster) became chief executive. On September 19, 2013, dotCloud and Red Hat announced an alliance to integrate Docker with OpenShift, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. On October 29, 2013, dotCloud was renamed Docker.