Docker MCP Server
Updated June 2026✓ Official⭐ FeaturedThe Docker MCP server, built by Docker, provides the Docker MCP server connects your AI assistant directly to your local or remote Docker daemon, exposing container lifecycle management and image orchestration as Model Context Protocol tools. It is officially maintained and best for Cloud.
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The Docker MCP server connects your AI assistant directly to your local or remote Docker daemon, exposing container lifecycle management and image orchestration as Model Context Protocol tools. With this integration, developers can prompt Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf to inspect running containers, view real-time logs, build new images from Dockerfiles, start and stop services using Docker Compose, and prune unused system resources through natural language. Rather than switching to a terminal to type complex docker inspect commands, you can simply ask your AI to "find out why the postgres container keeps crashing" or "tail the last 100 lines of the frontend container logs and find the React error". This is a game-changer for DevOps engineers, backend developers, and system administrators who want to streamline container debugging, automate compose cluster orchestration, and troubleshoot networking issues faster. The server interacts securely with the Docker Engine API, meaning it can both read system state and execute commands like port binding or volume inspection. It works cross-platform wherever Docker Desktop or the Docker daemon is running. Docker's official implementation ships as the Docker MCP Gateway (docker/mcp-gateway), a `docker mcp` CLI plugin that acts as a single secure gateway in front of many containerized MCP servers from the Docker MCP Catalog — each downstream server runs in its own isolated container with resource limits and secret injection, so an assistant connects once to the gateway instead of wiring up dozens of individual servers. Start it with `docker mcp gateway run`, then point Claude Desktop, Cursor, or another client at the gateway; `docker mcp server enable <name>` toggles which catalog servers (including the Docker/container-management tools) are exposed. This container-per-server isolation is the key security benefit over running MCP servers directly on the host.
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