Ship containers.
Not configuration files.
One manifest file replaces fourteen browser tabs. Orchestrate, network, secure, and monitor — from a single terminal window.
// capability matrix
Every layer. One tool.
Scroll to see how deep Dock goes. Each capability is a single command away — not a 400-line Helm chart.
Orchestration
Zero-downtime deploys, rollbacks, and replica scaling — no YAML sprawl.
| capability | dock | docker | compose | k8s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling deploys | ||||
| Auto rollback on failure | ||||
| Replica scaling (1 command) | ||||
| Multi-region clusters | ||||
| Single manifest file | ||||
Networking
Overlay mesh, automatic TLS, service discovery — wired up at deploy time.
| capability | dock | docker | compose | k8s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overlay mesh networking | ||||
| Automatic TLS (Let's Encrypt) | ||||
| Service discovery (DNS) | ||||
| Ingress routing rules | ||||
| Port forwarding (dev mode) | ||||
Secrets
Encrypted at rest, injected at runtime. No plaintext in your repo, ever.
| capability | dock | docker | compose | k8s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encrypted secret store | ||||
| Vault / AWS SSM integration | ||||
| Per-environment secrets | ||||
| Secret rotation (zero-downtime) | ||||
| Audit log for secret access | ||||
Observability
Unified log stream, health checks, and metrics — one pane of glass.
| capability | dock | docker | compose | k8s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unified log aggregation | ||||
| Container health checks | ||||
| Metrics (CPU/mem/net) | ||||
| Alerting rules (YAML-free) | ||||
| Live topology view (CLI) | ||||
// from the terminal
Engineers who shipped with Dock
"Replaced our entire Kubernetes setup with a single dock.yaml. Onboarded three new engineers in an afternoon instead of a week."
Marcus Webb
Platform Lead · Meridian Cloud
"We hit a Saturday night outage at 2am. Dock's live topology view told me exactly which replica was down. Fixed in four minutes."
Priya Nair
Senior DevOps Engineer · Stacklane
"As a solo founder, Kubernetes was overkill and Compose wasn't enough. Dock is exactly the gap I needed filled."
Tom Okafor
Founder · Loopback.io
"Standardized 50 microservice deployments across 4 teams in one sprint. Every service uses the same dock.yaml schema."
Chen Wei
Engineering Manager · Vantage Systems
"The secrets injection alone was worth the switch. No more plaintext in .env files committed to repos by accident."
Aisha Okonkwo
Security Engineer · Fidelity Labs
"Our CI/CD pipeline went from 18 steps to 3. dock build, dock push, dock deploy. That's it."
Ryan Castellano
DevOps Lead · Patchwork
"Replaced our entire Kubernetes setup with a single dock.yaml. Onboarded three new engineers in an afternoon instead of a week."
Marcus Webb
Platform Lead · Meridian Cloud
"We hit a Saturday night outage at 2am. Dock's live topology view told me exactly which replica was down. Fixed in four minutes."
Priya Nair
Senior DevOps Engineer · Stacklane
"As a solo founder, Kubernetes was overkill and Compose wasn't enough. Dock is exactly the gap I needed filled."
Tom Okafor
Founder · Loopback.io
"Standardized 50 microservice deployments across 4 teams in one sprint. Every service uses the same dock.yaml schema."
Chen Wei
Engineering Manager · Vantage Systems
"The secrets injection alone was worth the switch. No more plaintext in .env files committed to repos by accident."
Aisha Okonkwo
Security Engineer · Fidelity Labs
"Our CI/CD pipeline went from 18 steps to 3. dock build, dock push, dock deploy. That's it."
Ryan Castellano
DevOps Lead · Patchwork
// install
One command. Everything running.
No account required. No credit card. No Kubernetes YAML. Just paste and press enter.
Install in 30 seconds · macOS, Linux, WSL2 · MIT license
// release notes
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