r/docker is a subreddit with 319k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses docker, struggling, container, docker container, and docker compose, 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
: "ELI5 Can selinux policies be applied inside a docker container?"
19 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Is there a pre-Docker 101 guide?"
12 posts
#3
Ideas
: "iptables MASQUERADE not working in Docker Compose NAT Gateway simulator"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Why docker stop takes ten seconds on a container that's doing nothing"
2 posts
#5
Opportunities
: "[Hiring] [Freelance] Remote Code Review Opportunity – Software Engineers (India)"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I built DockScope: a 3D dependency graph of your Docker stack with live metrics, logs, and a terminal, all in the browser"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/docker
#1
Docker
: "Has anyone come back to Docker after using podman?"
133 posts
#2
Struggling
: "Unprecedented recourse usage between 2 identical containers"
51 posts
#3
Container
: "Why docker stop takes ten seconds on a Container that's doing nothing"
45 posts
#4
Docker Container
: "do you scale your production database using docker ?"
15 posts
#5
Docker Compose
: "Trilium and Docker Compose"
5 posts
#6
Help
: "Need Help with docker"
5 posts
#7
Containers
4 posts
#8
Setup
: "Moving my config to a bind mount"
4 posts
#9
Docker Update
: "Docker Update : source and destination path must have identical roots. Move will not work cross volumes."
4 posts
#10
Docker Networking
: "Wireguard to Nginx inside Docker"
4 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
Member Growth in r/docker
Yearly
+37k members(13.0%)
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Last updated: August 10, 2026