r/docker
ActiveDocker: An open source project to pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container
[Docker](http://www.docker.io) is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.
Members
225,535
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2013
July 26, 2013
Total posts
48.7K
archived
Total comments
284.1K
archived
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r/docker had 225,535 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.
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r/docker was created on July 26, 2013.
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