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Docker

Score 19.4 / 100 50 providers +13 via APIs 22 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
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Providers using this tag (50)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Sonatype Nexus RepositoryArtifact ManagementDevOpsMaven2 APIs69.0Azure Container RegistryMicrosoft AzureContainer ImagesContainers4 APIs68.5Amazon ECSAmazonAmazon Web ServicesContainers18 APIs76.0Amazon ECRAmazon Web ServicesContainer ImagesContainer RegistryContainers10 APIs75.2
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
JFrog Container RegistryContainer ImagesContainersHelm1 API61.7PortainerContainer ManagementContainersKubernetes1 API57.1GitHub Container RegistryContainer ImagesContainersGitHubPackages2 APIs61.8
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DockerCloudContainersDeveloper ToolsDevOps1 API51.7Docker HubContainersDevOpsRegistry1 API48.7CloudovňaCompanyCloud HostingContainers1 API45.6DokployPlatform-as-a-ServiceSelf-HostedOpen Source1 API45.6CoolifyPlatform-as-a-ServiceSelf-HostingDeploymentOpen Source1 API48.9RomMCompanyOpen SourceRetro GamingMedia Management1 API41.0
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
DroneCI/CDContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeliveryDevOps1 API31.9PterodactylCompanyGame ServerOpen Source1 API30.3Weave NetContainersNetworkingKubernetes5 APIs27.5DepotContainer BuildsBuildKitRemote Cache1 API26.4VerdaccionpmRegistryPackage Managerprivate-registry1 API35.9ContainerdCloud-NativeContainer RuntimeCRI1 API30.5FileFlowsCompanyAutomationFile ProcessingSelf-Hosted1 API30.3BlacksmithCI/CDGitHub ActionsRunnersCaching1 API28.7PostalInstallationsOpen SourceDevOps2 APIs28.1ScorePlatform EngineeringCloud-NativeCNCFWorkload Specification3 APIs26.7
Emerging 17 Early or largely undocumented
LuminMonitoringDevOpsSoftware-as-a-Service2 APIs25.6Speedtest TrackerCompanySelf-HostedMonitoringSpeed Test2 APIs24.2Nginx Proxy ManagerCompanyOpen SourceNGINX2 APIs23.5GotenbergPDFConversionOpen Source1 API23.4EarthlyBuild AutomationCI/CDContainers22.9UnraidOperating SystemNetwork Attached StorageVirtual Machines21.2What's Up DockerCompanyContainer ManagementKubernetes1 API17.9TestcontainersTestingIntegration TestingContainers2 APIs17.5GluetunVPNOpen SourceWireGuard14.9BeszelServer MonitoringPodmanAlerts2 APIs13.7NixpacksBuild ToolsCloud Native BuildpacksOCI5 APIs13.5mailcowCompanyEmailOpen Source12.4DokkuPlatform-as-a-ServiceSelf-HostedContainers12.0MaintainerrCompanyMediaAutomationSelf-Hosted2 APIs23.3KamalDeploymentDevOpsContainers2 APIs19.3CoastsCompanyDeveloper ToolsCLIVersion Control18.1BazarrSubtitleMediaOpen SourceAutomation1 API11.2
Minimal 10 Almost no public developer surface
EasypanelServer Control PanelPlatform-as-a-ServiceSelf-Hosted7.7Docker SwarmClusteringContainer OrchestrationDevOps5.0DockerfileContainerizationDevOpsInfrastructure as Code5.0DCHQCompanyContainersContainer Management0.0wg-easyVPNWireGuardWeb UI9.5dash.MonitoringOpen SourceDashboardsServers1 API7.3linkdingCompanyBookmarkSelf-HostedOpen Source1 API6.5EspialCompanyBookmarkingOpen SourceHaskell5.5TeslaMate (self-hosted)CompanyOpen SourceData-LoggerTesla4.1DistelliCompanyDevOpsDeploymentContinuous Delivery0.0

APIs with this tag (22)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
OCI Container Registry APIREST APIs for managing Docker container images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry, a managed...70.4AWS Fargate APIAWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS re...68.5
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
IBM Cloud Container RegistryStore and distribute container images in a managed private registry for IBM Cloud Kubernetes and other cont...65.8JFrog Container RegistryJFrog Container Registry is a free, hybrid, and multi-cloud Docker registry and Helm chart repository for m...61.7Portainer Docker APIManage Docker resources57.1Swagger Codegen CLIThe Swagger Codegen command-line interface for generating code artifacts locally. Available as a JAR file a...56.5
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Highlight Self-Hosted DeploymentSelf-hosted deployment of the open-source Highlight stack. Three tiers — Dev (single-host docker-compose), ...54.1ControlPlane Docker APIThe Docker API from ControlPlane — 1 operation(s) for docker.51.8CoolifyThe Coolify platform - an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed, self-hostable PaaS written in PHP (Laravel) tha...48.9Dokploy Docker APIThe docker API from Dokploy — 12 operation(s) for docker.45.6
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
GitKraken Docker APIThe Docker API from GitKraken — 1 operation(s) for docker.38.9brightsec-com APIbrightsec-com API as documented publicly: 13 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API E...35.1spree-starter (Application Template)Reference Spree application template used to bootstrap new Spree installations - includes Docker Compose, t...32.6Blacksmith Docker BuildsAccelerated Docker image builds via Blacksmith's BuildKit and the useblacksmith/build-push-action and usebl...28.7Sliplane Control APIThe Sliplane Control API is a REST API at https://ctrl.sliplane.io/v0 for programmatically managing organiz...27.0Sliplane MCP ServerThe Sliplane MCP server exposes the Sliplane Control API as Model Context Protocol tools so AI assistants (...27.0
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Zeabur Services APICreate services from git repositories, uploaded zips, Dockerfiles, or prebuilt marketplace codes; restart, ...21.7Resurface ContainersOfficial Helm charts and container images for deploying the Resurface API security database on Kubernetes.19.9Kamal CLIThe Kamal CLI (`kamal`) is the primary command-line interface for packaging, shipping, and operating contai...19.3Testcontainers Cloud Agent APIThe Testcontainers Cloud Agent API enables CI/CD pipelines and desktop environments to allocate hosted Dock...17.5Testcontainers Open-Source LibrariesA family of open-source libraries providing a programmatic API for spinning up and tearing down Docker cont...17.5PolyScope X URCap SDKThe PolyScope X URCap SDK is the TypeScript/HTML extension framework for Universal Robots' next-generation ...15.9

Companies reaching this through an API (13)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Docker” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Amazon Web Services brightsec-com ControlPlane GitKraken Highlight (highlight.io) IBM Oracle Resurface Sliplane Spree Commerce Swagger Codegen Universal Robots Zeabur

Score breakdown

Frequency
47.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
28.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
11.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Containers 23 co-occurrences Platform-as-a-Service 8 co-occurrences Helm 5 co-occurrences Container Images 5 co-occurrences OCI 5 co-occurrences Self-Hosted 11 co-occurrences DevOps 22 co-occurrences PostgreSQL 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag50
Api tag21
Openapi tag4
Openapi op tag6

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
Container Registries (OCI Distribution)30%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 37 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Docker, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
37
of 50 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
32.8
+8.7 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
17.2
+3.1 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
0–76
median 27.5 · σ 20.8
How the 37 split by band
Exemplar 4Strong 3Developing 5Thin 9Emerging 11Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Operational Transparency 26.3 13.2 +13.1 37
Contract Quality 29.5 18.6 +10.9 37
Developer Ergonomics 34.7 24.5 +10.2 37
Contract Governance 14 9.7 +4.3 37
Access Clarity 33.6 30 +3.6 37
Discoverability 60.1 59.1 +1 37

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 19% 18% +1
MCP server (first-party) 16% 16% 0
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 14% 13% +1
Security 92% 99% -7
Arazzo workflows 5% 1% +4
Governance rules 59% 36% +23

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Amazon ECS 76
  2. 2 Amazon ECR 75.2
  3. 3 Sonatype Nexus Repository 69
  4. 4 Azure Container Registry 68.5
  5. 5 GitHub Container Registry 61.8
  6. 6 JFrog Container Registry 61.7
  7. 7 Portainer 57.1
  8. 8 Docker 51.7
  9. 9 Coolify 48.9
  10. 10 Docker Hub 48.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Amazon ECS 48.9
  2. 2 Cloudovňa 45.6
  3. 3 Portainer 36.9
  4. 4 Docker 32.6
  5. 5 Sonatype Nexus Repository 31.5
  6. 6 Dokploy 31.2
  7. 7 JFrog Container Registry 31.1
  8. 8 Docker Hub 30.8
  9. 9 RomM 30.4
  10. 10 Amazon ECR 29.6
All 50 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 37 carry a score (74%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 25 of 37 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 14 November 2026, across 41591 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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Tools for tags

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  • find_tagsBrowse and filter every tag in the catalog.
  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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