Docker is introducing new MCP-related choices to supply builders with instruments for working with the Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP).
Coming in Could, Docker MCP Catalog will probably be a market the place builders can uncover verified and curated MCP instruments. The corporate partnered with a number of firms to construct the catalog, together with Stripe, Elastic, Heroku, Pulumi, Grafana Labs, Kong, Neo4j, New Relic, and Proceed.dev.
The catalog incorporates over 100 instruments, and every instrument comes with writer verification, versioned releases, and curated collections.
In accordance with Docker, future releases of MCP Catalog will add options like the power for builders to publish and handle their very own MCP servers and secret storage in Docker Desktop.
Docker additionally introduced the Docker MCP Toolkit, which is able to permit builders to run, authenticate, and handle their MCP instruments in a method much like how they handle Docker photographs.
It’ll allow builders to rapidly spin up MCP servers and join them to shoppers akin to Docker AI Agent, Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Proceed.dev, and Google.
Key options embody built-in credentials and OAuth administration, a Gateway MCP Server, a CLI particularly designed for MCP interplay, and built-in reminiscence, community, and disk isolation.
“Again within the early days of the cloud, Docker introduced construction to chaos by making immutability and isolation the usual, constructing in authentication, and launching Docker Hub as a central discovery layer. It didn’t simply streamline deployment – it redefined how software program will get constructed, shared, and trusted. At the moment, Docker serves over 20 million builders and powers billions of picture pulls each month. If we convey that very same readability, belief, and scalability to MCP, we unlock a complete new era of clever brokers and real-world automation. That’s precisely what we’re doing – with Docker MCP Catalog and Docker MCP Toolkit,” Docker wrote in a weblog submit.