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MCP Server Docker

MCP Server Docker is an MCP server that adds cloud and DevOps tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. An MCP server for managing Docker with natural language. It has 749 GitHub stars, is released under the GPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx mcp-server-docker.

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Install MCP Server Docker

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-docker": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-docker"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCKER_HOST": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env DOCKER_HOST=your-value --transport stdio mcp-server-docker -- uvx mcp-server-docker

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-docker": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-docker"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCKER_HOST": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-server-docker": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-docker"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCKER_HOST": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
DOCKER_HOSTNoShown in the README's example configuration.

Tools (19)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • list_containers
  • create_container
  • run_container
  • recreate_container
  • start_container
  • fetch_container_logs
  • stop_container
  • remove_container
  • list_images
  • pull_image
  • push_image
  • build_image
  • remove_image
  • list_networks
  • create_network
  • remove_network
  • list_volumes
  • create_volume
  • remove_volume

About MCP Server Docker

An MCP server for managing Docker with natural language! A quick demo showing a WordPress deployment using natural language:

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How do I install the MCP Server Docker MCP server?

Add the command uvx mcp-server-docker to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is MCP Server Docker free?

The server is open source under the GPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is MCP Server Docker actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Aug 7, 2026. The latest release is v0.3.0, published Aug 7, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.