Docker Extensions lets you use third-party tools within Docker Desktop to extend its functionality.
Why Developers need Docker Extension?
- Extensions allows developers to seamlessly connect their favorite development tools to your application development and deployment workflows
- Extension augments Docker Desktop with debugging, testing, security, and networking functionalities, and build custom add-ons using the Extensions SDK
- Extensions open a realm of possibilities for developers by adding a variety of tools to your development workflows
- Developers can now leverage their favorite tools directly from within Docker Desktop with one-click installation of extensions
- Developers can now discover new ways to implement and optimize workflows in the Marketplace with extensions from both official Extension partners and community members
Refer to this official link to learn more about Docker Extensions.
Here is a list of Docker extensions curated by the Collabnix community members:
List of Docker Marketplace Extensions
Here is a list of Docker Extensions available in Docker Hub:
| S.No. | Name of Extensions | Description | Docker Desktop | DockerHub | Popularity |
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| 1 | Disk Usage | View disk space used by Docker and reclaim space in one click | Install | Link |  |
| 2 | Logs Explorer | View all container logs in one place so you can debug and troubleshoot faster | Install | Link |  |
| 3 | Resource Usage | Monitor and manage live data stream for running containers | Install | Link |  |
| 4 | Volumes Backup & Share | Backup, clone, restore, and share Docker volumes effortlessly | Install | Link |  |
| 5 | Uffizzi | Uffizzi lets you create and manage full-stack previews in the cloud from Docker Compose | Install | Link |  |
| 6 | Portainer | Docker container management made simple, with the world’s most popular GUI-based container management platform | Install | Link |  |
| 7 | Okteto | Remote Development for Docker Compose | Install | Link |  |
| 8 | Ambassador Telepresence | Instantly bridge your workstation with Kubernetes clusters in the cloud | Install | Link |  |
| 9 | Snyk | Scan your remote or local image and detect any contained vulnerabilities | Install | Link |  |
| 10 | Slim.AI | Deep dive into the construction of your images. Know what's in your containers | Install | Link |  |
| 11 | Lacework Scanner | Minimize the vulnerabilities before the images go into production | Install | Link |  |
| 12 | Anchore | Content and security analysis for container images | Install | Link |  |
| 13 | Calyptia Core | Use Calyptia Core within Docker Desktop to manage observability | Install | Link |  |
| 14 | InterSystems | Access InterSystems Container Registry, public and private images of such products as IRIS and IRIS for Health and many others in one place | Install | Link |  |
| 15 | Ddosify | High-performance, open-source and simple load testing tool, written in Golang | Install | Link |  |
| 16 | OpenShift | Easily deploy and test applications onto OpenShift | Install | Link |  |
| 17 | Epinio | Push from source to Kubernetes in one step | Install | Link |  |
| 18 | Jfrog | Scan your Docker images for vulnerabilities with JFrog Xray. | Install | Link |  |
| 19 | vcluster | Manage your vclusters running on docker-desktop. | Install | Link |  |
| 20 | Newman | Run your Postman collections from Docker Desktop | Install | Link |  |
| 21 | Lens | Run Lens Kubernetes on your Docker Desktop | Install | Link |  |
| 22 | Microcks | API Mocking and Testing for REST, GraphQL, gRPC and AsyncAPI | Install | Link |  |
| 23 | Open Source management tool for PostgreSQL | Docker Extension for using an embedded PGAdmin4 Open Source management tool for PostgreSQL | Install | Link |  |
| 24 | Mini Cluster | "Mini Cluster" enables you run a local Apache Mesos cluster | Install | Link |  |
| 25 | Gosh | Build your decentralized and secure software supply chain with Docker and Git Open Source Hodler | Install | Link |  |
| 26 | Drone CI | Run Continuous Integration & Delivery Pipelines (CI/CD) from within Docker Desktop. | Install | Link |  |
| 27 | Aqua Trivy | Run unlimited vulnerability scans against remote or locally stored images | Install | Link |  |
| 28 | Meshery | Meshery is the open source, cloud native manager that enables the adoption, operation, and management of Kubernetes, any service mesh, and their workloads. | Install | Link |  |
| 29 | Oracle SQLcl client tool | Docker Extension for using an embedded version of Oracle SQLcl client tool | Install | Link |  |
| 30 | Tailscale | Tailscale lets you securely connect to your Docker containers without exposing them to the public internet. | Install | Link |  |
| 31 | Akita API | Drop in Agent for API Monitoring and Observability | Install | Link |  |
| 32 | Dive-In | Explore docker images, layer contents, and discover ways to shrink the size of your Docker/OCI image | Install | Link |  |
| 33 | Harpoon | Docker Extension for the No Code Kubernetes platform | Install | Link |  |
Table of Contents
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Categories
- 🧑💻 Development
- 🧰 Utilities
- 🫙 Container Management and Orchestration
- 🌐 Networking
- 🗄️ Database
- 💾 Storage
- 🔒 Security
- 🪵 Logging
- 🎮 Gaming
- 🧪 Testing
- 🏗️ Infrastructure
- ⚙️ API
- How to Install Docker Extensions
- 📹 Videos
- 💬 Support and Community
- References
Categories
🧑💻 Development
spurin/webden-extension - Open source mobile and tablet friendly alternative to JSFiddle and JSBin
🧰 Utilities
docker/disk-usage-extension - View disk space used by Docker and what it's used for. Reclaim disk space in one click
rumpl/docker-extension-golang-playground - Golang playground in Docker Desktop
noelm/swagger-editor-extension - Swagger Editor Docker Extension for Docker Desktop
peacecwz/github-registry-docker-desktop-extension - Docker Extension for Github Registry
caretdev/docker-intersystems-extension - View Docker Images from Intersystems Docker Extension
cedricziel/dd-extension-lgtm - OpenTelemetry enabled Grafana LGTM stack
docker/volumes-backup-extension - Back up, clone, restore, and share Docker volumes effortlessly.
efejjota/counter-extension - Counter extension Showcasing data persistency, backend commands, vanilla JS UI and Docker multistage builds
felipecruz91/bind-mount-extension - Bind mount Extension which bind a dir to the extension container and list the contents of the bind mounted file
tomwillfixit/docker-extension - Turn any script into a Docker Extension in about 3 minutes
jatin711-debug/request-docker-extension - Docker Desktop Request Mapper
awaldow/docker-desktop-healthchecks-ui- Docker Desktop Extension to show container healthchecks output.
harness/drone-desktop-docker-extension - A Docker Desktop extension to run and manage drone pipelines.
lucbpz/graph-view-docker-extension - Docker extensions that displays all your containers, volumes, images etc. in a network graph.
thiyagu06/asyncapi-studio-docker-extension - AsyncAPI studio Docker Extension for Docker Desktop
🫙 Container Management and Orchestration
Lens Extension by Mirantis for Kubernetes- developers can now conveniently access Kubernetes clusters in seconds within their familiar Docker Desktop environment
Ambassador Labs Telepresence - Develop and test your Docker containers with Kubernetes
AVENTER-UG/docker-mesos-extension - Apache Mesos Extension for Docker Desktop
vmware/vmware-tanzu-community-edition-extension-for-docker-desktop - VMware Tanzu Community Edition Extension for Docker Desktop
portainer/portainer-docker-extension:2.13.1 - Docker container management made simple, with the world’s most popular GUI-based container management platform
OpenShift Docker Extension - OpenShift Extension for Docker desktop
splatform/epinio-docker-desktop - The Application Development Engine for Kubernetes
meshery/docker-extension-meshery - Extends Docker Desktop’s position as the cloud native developer’s go-to Kubernetes environment with easy access to the next layer of cloud native infrastructure: service meshes
loft-sh/vcluster-dd-extension - Manages vclusters quickly and easily through the Docker Desktop interface.
spurin/k9s-dd-extension - k9s UI preconfigured to run against Docker Desktop Kubernetes
AlfrescoLabs/alfresco-docker-extension - Single "Run" button to deploy Alfresco platform with Docker
Gefyra Docker Extension - Blazingly-fast, rock-solid, local application development with Kubernetes!
🌐 Networking
tailscale/docker-extension - Docker Extension adding Tailscale networking
🗄️ Database
PGAdmin4 extension for Docker Desktop - PostgreSQL Admin Extension
OracleXE 21c Docker Extension - Docker Extension for using OracleXE 21c
SQLCL Docker Extension - Docker Extension for using an embedded version of Oracle SQLcl client tool
Docker Extension for Percona Monitoring and Management - Docker Extension for Percona Monitoring and Management
RedisInsight Docker Extension for Docker Desktop - RedisInsight Docker Extension
💾 Storage
Storj Docker Extension - A Resilient Cloud Object Storage with blazing Performance and Zero-trust Security.
🔒 Security
snyk/snyk-docker-desktop-extension - Docker Extension for running Snyk scan on images
slimdotai/dd-ext - Slim.AI Docker Extensions
jfrog/jfrog-docker-desktop-extension - 🐸 Scans any of your local Docker images for security vulnerabilities 🐋
aquasecurity/trivy-docker-extension - Docker Extensions for Trivy
l6khq/lacework-docker-extension - Docker Image Scanner
🪵 Logging
docker/logs-explorer-extension - View all your container logs in one place so you can debug and troubleshoot faster
🎮 Gaming
Flappy Dock - A forked copy of nebez/floppybird
🧪 Testing
uffizzi/docker-desktop-extension - Lets you create and manage full-stack previews in the cloud using a Docker Compose file
ddosify/ddosify - High-performance load testing tool, written in Golang.
🏗️ Infrastructure
kubesail/docker-extension - Self-hosting/running internet software on computers you own.
spurin/diveintoansible-extension - Let's you create Ansible Lab Environment with an Ansible control node
⚙️ API
loopDelicious/docker-extension - Postman collection run
microcks/microcks-docker-desktop-extension - Kubernetes native tool for mocking and testing API and microservices
samoht/docker-extension-ocaml - Docker Extensions in OCaml. OCaml is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language which extends the Caml dialect of ML with object-oriented features.
How to install Docker Extensions
Using GitHub
Step 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/<repo-name>/<name-of-your-extension>
Step 2. Build the Docker Extension
Navigate into the cloned repository and run:
make build-extension
The above command generates a Docker image named after the Docker Hub repository.
Step 3. Install Docker Extensions
To install the extension in Docker Desktop, run:
docker extension install <repo-name>/<name-of-your-extension>
Step 4. List the Extension
You can also check that the extension has been installed successfully using the following CLI command:
docker extension ls
Using Docker Hub
Step 1. Pull the image
docker pull <Docker-Hub-username>/<image-name>
Step 2. Install Docker Extensions
To install the extension in Docker Desktop, run:
docker extension install <Docker-Hub-username>/<image-name>
📹 Videos
| Docker Extension for GOSH | Docker Extension for Slim.ai |
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| Docker Extension for Snyk | Docker Extension for VMware Tanzu |
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| Docker Extension for Anchore | Docker Extension for Okteto |
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| Docker Extension for Uffizzi | Docker Extension for Meshery |
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| Docker Extension for Trivy | Docker Extension for Telepresence |
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| Docker Extension for Red Hat OpenShift | Docker Extension for JFrog |
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💬 Support and Community
If you do get enough interest to build a Docker Extension, the team at Docker is available to support you.
You can find us in the Docker Community Slack in #extensions, post issues on our SDK repo, or reach us via email extensions(AT)docker.com.
References:
- Introducing Docker Extensions - YouTube
- Introduction to Docker Extensions
- How to create your own Docker Extensions
- Create Your First Extensions
- Minimal frontend extensions tutorial
- Minimal React Extensions tutorial
- Minimal Docker CLI Extensions tutorial
- Creating Docker Extensions (James Spurin) - YouTube
- Introducing Docker Extensions: DevOps and Docker Live Show (Ep 174) (Bret Fisher) - YouTube
Getting Help
Have a question about Docker Extensions? Search the Docker Forum Docker Extensions tag for answers, or post a question in our Docker Community Forum.
Top comments (8)
Thanks for the list. I'm trying to build an extension and there is not enough documentation. But this helps a lot ;)
Hi Nicolas,
We would love to hear more about your experience in building a Docker extension and help you where we can. If you have the time please feel free to pick a timeslot in this link: calendly.com/mel-manohar/docker-ex...
wonderful list thanks for sharing!
i dont know how i feel about the idea of docker extensions tbh. I dread opening DockerDesktop because the UI is very clunky, unresponsive and runs into issues alll the time. Going into the DockerDashboard is not a good feeling, I only go there when theres a problem. Now if we start stuffing that with other tools ... I dont know.
I already have PG admin etc, so why would i need to put that inside docker desktop? I guess you want to make docker a one stop shop , but this kind of going overboard imo.
Docker I like because its lean and i just want it to work...but ill check these out, thanks
Thanks for the feedback.
Did you try the latest version of Docker Desktop? The latest version of Docker support VirtioFS that improves the overall performance of Docker Desktop. Give a try and let me know your thoughts.
Regarding Docker Extension query, here are my thoughts - Most of the time you spend time in setting up your software stack. For example, I heavily used RedisInsight - a Redis UI tool in the past. The tool helped me in inserting Redis keys, query, visualize and manipulate Graph data which was difficult to browse via CLI, connect to remote Elasticache instance, perform memory profiling, slowlog browsing etc. Now there was a challenge to bring the latest version of RedisMod Docker container everytime it is released as it needs to be compiled and tested. One way to tackle this problem is using Extension.
Imagine there is a RedisInsight Docker extension that is provided and supported by Docker, Inc. I don't really to burn out extra hours to bring it up and running. Just one click and I am done.
Look at ready-to-use Docker image provided by Docker Desktop. You can bring up multiple instance of Redis, Mongo, Elasticache, Memcached etc instance in a single click.
thank you very much for the thoughtful response!
I can see what you mean now that you explained it and I'll have to use it before commenting further.
I really like the one click deploy aspect aswell! with potential auto config..interesting
Never heard about swagger-editor-docker-extension ! Thanks
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