r/docker

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Docker: 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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Frequently asked questions about r/docker

How many members does r/docker have?

r/docker had 225,535 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.

Is r/docker dead?

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When was r/docker created?

r/docker was created on July 26, 2013.

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