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Docker

Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Enterprises use Docker to build agile software delivery pipelines to ship new features faster, more securely and with confidence for both Linux and Windows Server apps.

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Y Combinator
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Y Combinator

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Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Enterprises use Docker to build agile software delivery pipelines to ship new features faster, more securely and with confidence for both Linux and Windows Server apps.

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Companies similar to Docker

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Heroku

match 75

Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.

shared extracted concept terms: enterprise; shared product terms: container, developer, run, manage; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Nestybox

match 71

Nestybox creates software that enables Linux containers to act like virtual machines. This increases the use cases for containers and gives enterprises a less expensive and more flexible alternative to virtual machines in many scenarios. Our first product is a "container runtime", the software that creates the containers. It's called "Sysbox" and integrates with the popular Docker and Kubernetes engines, enabling these tools to deploy containers that act like virtual machines. This technology pr

shared extracted concepts: enterprises; shared product terms: docker, container, machine, enterprise; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Dagger

match 67

Dagger is a programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers. Develop your pipelines as code, in the same programming language as your application. Choose your SDK and start coding! Dagger executes your pipelines entirely as standard OCI containers. This has several benefits: - Instant local testing - Portability: the same pipeline can run on your local machine, a CI runner, a dedicated server, or any container hosting service. - Superior caching: every operation is cached by def

shared extracted concept terms: container; shared product terms: pipeline, container, code, run; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Webiny

match 49

When the public cloud appeared migration was easy. Existing apps running on physical servers could just be moved to virtual machines running in the cloud. The cloud is now moving towards serverless, and serverless is not backward compatible. New tools need to be created and existing apps need to be rewritten. Webiny provides developers with everything they need to build those serverless apps. We are a 100% remote team.

shared product terms: developer, machine, when, apps; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Depot

match 46

Depot is a build acceleration platform making builds up to 40x faster for Docker containers and GitHub Actions. Companies like PostHog, Wistia, Appsmith, and Secoda use Depot to save tens of hours of build time every day. We offer a remote container build service for building Intel & Arm Docker images, from your CI or local machine, up to 40x faster. Our container builds come with in-depth build insights, ephemeral registries, and instant cache sharing across your team. Finally, we also offer ou

shared extracted concept terms: container; shared product terms: faster, docker, container, machine; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Coasts

match 46

A Coast (containerized host) is a local development runtime. Coasts let you run multiple isolated environments for the same project on one machine. As AI coding agents increasingly work in parallel across git worktrees, developers hit painful conflicts — clashing ports, duplicated databases, and fragile per-branch setup. Coasts solve this by giving each worktree its own fully isolated runtime, so multiple agents can build and test side by side without stepping on each other.

shared product terms: run, isolat, machine, developer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator