r/docker is a subreddit with 315k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses docker, struggling, container, containers, and setup, and they frequently recommend/review monitoring tool, hosting, and vpn solution.
Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.
Popular Themes in r/docker
#1
Solution Requests
: "I got tired of WSL2 never giving disk space back, so my open-source cleaner now compacts the vhdx for you"
21 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Noobie being lost..."
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "iptables MASQUERADE not working in Docker Compose NAT Gateway simulator"
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "DeprecationWarning for langchain_community.document_loaders"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/docker
#1
Docker
: "Docker Desktop has too many updates"
117 posts
#2
Struggling
: "Unprecedented recourse usage between 2 identical containers"
51 posts
#3
Container
: "trying to set up a scheduled PostgresDB backup inside a docker Container"
45 posts
#4
Containers
: "Lazy docker for apple Containers"
4 posts
#5
Setup
: "Moving my config to a bind mount"
4 posts
#6
Windows
: "Installing Docker in Windows vs Linux VM?"
4 posts
#7
Mysql
3 posts
#8
Nginx
3 posts
#9
Volume
: "Moving my config to a bind mount"
3 posts
#10
File
: "Any Docker Container Recommendation specifically for Private File Hosting?"
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/docker
Monitoring Tool
3 reviews
#1
CAdvisor
3.0★ from 1 review
#2
Netdata
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Prometheus
4.0★ from 1 review
Hosting
2 reviews
#1
Hetzner
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Fly.io
4.0★ from 1 review
Vpn Solution
2 reviews
#1
pfSense
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
WireGuard
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/docker
#1
Approved
: "Spent the past few weeks building a docker clone to learn how docker works internally"
1 post
Member Growth in r/docker
Yearly
+36k members(13.0%)
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Last updated: July 6, 2026