Docker MCP Server

A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Docker operations, providing complete Docker functionality through Claude AI and other MCP clients. Built with .NET 8 and designed for production use.

Features

This Docker MCP Server provides complete Docker functionality that significantly surpasses all existing implementations:

🚀 Container Operations

• ✅ Create containers with full configuration support (35+ options)
• ✅ Start, stop, restart containers with timeout controls
• ✅ Remove containers with force and volume options
• ✅ List containers with advanced filtering and sizing
• ✅ Get container logs with timestamps, follow, and filtering
• ✅ Inspect containers for detailed information
• ✅ Execute commands in running containers
• ✅ Get real-time statistics for monitoring

🖼️ Image Operations

• ✅ List images with filtering options
• ✅ Pull images from registries with platform support
• ✅ Remove images with force options
• ✅ Build images from Dockerfiles with build args
• ✅ Tag images for repository management
• ✅ Inspect images for detailed information
• ✅ Get image history and layer information
• ✅ Prune unused images with dangling/all options
• ✅ Search images in Docker Hub
• ✅ Push images to registries

🌐 Network Operations

• ✅ List networks with complete information
• ✅ Create networks with custom drivers and IPAM
• ✅ Remove networks safely
• ✅ Connect/disconnect containers to/from networks
• ✅ Inspect networks for configuration details
• ✅ Prune unused networks
• ✅ Subnet configuration with gateway support

💾 Volume Operations

• ✅ List volumes with filtering
• ✅ Create volumes with custom drivers and options
• ✅ Remove volumes with force options
• ✅ Inspect volumes for detailed information
• ✅ Prune unused volumes
• ✅ Volume filtering by labels and metadata

🐳 Docker Compose Operations

• ✅ Deploy Compose stacks from YAML with environment injection
• ✅ Remove Compose stacks with cleanup options
• ✅ List Compose stack containers
• ✅ Get Compose stack logs (all services or specific)
• ✅ Start/stop/restart stacks
• ✅ Scale services in stacks
• ✅ Execute commands in Compose services

🛠️ System Operations

• ✅ Check Docker availability and connectivity
• ✅ Get system information and capabilities
• ✅ Get version information for daemon and API
• ✅ System-wide pruning with selective cleanup
• ✅ Disk usage information and monitoring
• ✅ Event monitoring with filtering
• ✅ Process information for containers

🎯 Advanced Container Configuration

• ✅ Full volume mount support (bind mounts, named volumes, tmpfs)
• ✅ Environment variables with validation
• ✅ Port mappings (multiple ports, TCP/UDP protocols)
• ✅ Resource limits (CPU, memory, PID limits)
• ✅ Security options (capabilities, AppArmor, SELinux, seccomp)
• ✅ Device mappings with permissions
• ✅ DNS configuration and custom resolvers
• ✅ Extra hosts for /etc/hosts entries
• ✅ Tmpfs mounts for temporary filesystems
• ✅ Ulimits (file descriptors, processes, memory locks)
• ✅ Labels and metadata management
• ✅ Restart policies (no, always, unless-stopped, on-failure)
• ✅ Network modes (bridge, host, none, container)
• ✅ User and working directory specification
• ✅ Auto-removal support (--rm equivalent)
• ✅ Interactive and TTY modes
• ✅ Read-only filesystems for security
• ✅ Privileged containers with safety controls

Installation and Setup

Prerequisites

• .NET 8.0 SDK or Runtime
• Docker Desktop or Docker Engine
• MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, etc.)

Option 1: Use Pre-built Binaries (Recommended)

Download the latest release for your platform from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/jamesburton/Doc

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