도커-mcp

🐳 docker-mcp

A powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Docker operations, enabling seamless container and compose stack management through Claude AI.

✨ Features

🚀 Container creation and instantiation
📦 Docker Compose stack deployment
🔍 Container logs retrieval
📊 Container listing and status monitoring

🎬 Demos

Deploying a Docker Compose Stack

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b5f6e40a-542b-4a39-ba12-7fdf803ee278

Analyzing Container Logs

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/da386eea-2fab-4835-82ae-896de955d934

🚀 Quickstart

To try this in Claude Desktop app, add this to your claude config files:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docker-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docker-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Installing via Smithery

To install Docker MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx @smithery/cli install docker-mcp --client claude

Prerequisites

UV (package manager)
Python 3.12+
Docker Desktop or Docker Engine
Claude Desktop

Installation

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add the server configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docker-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "<path-to-docker-mcp>",
        "run",
        "docker-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docker-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "docker-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

🛠️ Development

Local Setup

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/QuantGeekDev/docker-mcp.git
cd docker-mcp

Create and activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies:

uv sync

🔍 Debugging

Launch the MCP Inspector for debugging:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory <path-to-docker-mcp> run docker-mcp

The Inspector will provide a URL to access the debugging interface.

📝 Available Tools

The server provides the following tools:

create-container

Creates a standalone Docker container

{
    "image": "image-name",
    "name": "container-name",
    "ports": {"80": "80"},
    "environment": {"ENV_VAR": "value"}
}

deploy-compose

Deploys a Docker Compose stack

{
    "project_name": "example-stack",
    "compose_yaml": "version: '3.8'\nservices:\n  service1:\n    image: image1:latest\n    ports:\n      - '8080:80'"
}

get-logs

Retrieves logs from a specific container

{
    "container_name": "my-container"
}

list-containers

Lists all Docker containers

{}

🚧 Current Limitations

No built-in environment variable support for containers
No volume management
No network management
No container health checks
No container restart policies
No container resource limits

🤝 Contributing

Fork the repository from docker-mcp
Create your feature branch
Commit your changes
Push to the branch
Open a Pull Request

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

✨ Authors

Alex Andru - Initial work | Core contributor - @QuantGeekDev
Ali Sadykov - Initial work | Core contributor - @md-archive

Made with ❤️

Deploy Server

HTTP connection URL

security – no known vulnerabilities

license - permissive license

quality - confirmed to work

How are these scores calculated?

local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

Docker 작업을 위한 강력한 MCP(Model Context Protocol) 서버로, Claude AI를 통해 원활한 컨테이너 및 구성 스택 관리를 지원합니다.

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