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Docker MCP

Exposes the local Docker socket as tools: list containers, read logs, inspect images, start and stop services. Genuinely useful for local development, and dangerous enough that the socket access deserves a deliberate decision rather…

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Use it for

Inspecting local containers, images, and compose services from an agent

Skip it if

Remote clusters — this is a local Docker socket, which is a large blast radius

What it is

Exposes the local Docker socket as tools: list containers, read logs, inspect images, start and stop services. Genuinely useful for local development, and dangerous enough that the socket access deserves a deliberate decision rather than a quick install.

Install

Terminal
docker mcp gateway run

Client configuration

Paste this into your MCP client config, then restart the client.

MCP client config (JSON)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avbbc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "docker mcp gateway run"]
    }
  }
}

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  • 03
    AWS MCP ServersOfficial

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Head-to-head

All comparisons

Docker MCP vs Kubernetes MCP

Local Docker is one machine's containers; Kubernetes is a cluster with its own permission model.

Comparison

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