Welcome to the January 2025 edition of Docker Navigator. Missed an issue? Read past issues in our collection.
As we step into 2025, we’re taking a look back at the highlights that shaped Docker’s journey last year — from AI-powered tools to enhanced security and developer workflows. This month, we’re also diving into solutions for key software engineering challenges, tips to supercharge your builds, and guides to modernize your applications. Start the new year strong with the latest from Docker!
Docker 2024 highlights: Innovations in AI, security, and empowering development teams
Take a look back at Docker’s big moments of 2024 — from game-changing AI integrations to enhanced security and developer tools that made building and shipping apps faster than ever. See how Docker’s innovations are shaping the future of development.
Discover how Docker streamlines AI app development by containerizing Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling seamless integration of external data and tools into LLM applications.
Tackle these common software engineering challenges to boost efficiency with Docker
Explore the top most common software engineering challenges and how Docker’s tools streamline the inner loop of cloud-native workflows.
Docker News
Docker Desktop 4.37: AI Catalog and command-line efficiency
Docker Desktop 4.37 streamlines AI-driven development with the new AI Catalog integration, command-line management capabilities, upgraded components, and enhanced stability to empower modern developers.
Dive deep
Accelerate your Docker builds using AWS CodeBuild and Docker Build Cloud
Learn how integrating Docker Build Cloud into a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodeBuild can dramatically reduce build times and improve release frequency.
How to dockerize a React app: A step-by-step guide for developers
We show how to dockerize a React app to streamline your development process, eliminate “it works on my machine” problems, and ensure seamless deployments.
How to create and use an AI Git agent
We show how to create an AI Git agent and use it to understand PR branches for a variety of user personas — without needing to know the ins and outs of Git.
How AI assistants can decode GitHub repos for UI writers
Exploring AI-assisted tools for UI writers, we demonstrate how to enhance GitHub PR review workflows to identify user-facing text changes, and offer a step-by-step guide and insights into leveraging LLMs effectively.
From legacy to cloud-native: How Docker simplifies complexity and boosts developer productivity
Learn how the Docker suite of products — including Docker Desktop, Docker Scout, and Docker Hub — helps you accelerate development, modernize legacy applications, and work more efficiently and securely.
Building trust into your software with verified components
Enhance your software’s security by incorporating Docker’s verified components, ensuring a trusted foundation for your applications.
Around the Community
Check out the Docker Forums
On the Docker Forums, you can find interesting topics, post an idea, and engage with the Docker developer community.
Recent topics include:
- An active discussion thread about how DNS resolution works in Docker and what difference Docker Compose makes. This topic started as discussion about network priorities, but shows that when enough details are shared, the community continues searching for the best solution.
- Another active topic was about “accessing multiple containers via HTTPs” in which the community also provided suggestions about how Docker could be used together with virtual machines.
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