Docker MCP Gateway
Docker's MCP gateway — run MCP servers as containers.
About
Docker's MCP gateway (docker/mcp-gateway, MIT) is the containerized way to run MCP servers: a gateway plus catalog for discovering and running MCP servers in Docker containers.
The isolation story is the point — each MCP server runs sandboxed in its own container. High issue count (158) reflects real usage and rough edges; watch the releases. Useful if you run many MCP servers and want them contained.
What it can do
- Containerized MCP servers
- Sandboxed isolation
- MCP catalog
- Official Docker
- MIT open source
Setup
- Install Docker Desktop with MCP support.
- Browse the MCP catalog.
- Enable servers; they run as containers.
- Point your agent at the gateway.
Prerequisites
Docker Desktop; an MCP-compatible agent.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Official Docker, MIT, useful isolation story — but a high open-issue count (158 vs ~1.6k stars) shows rough edges. Metrics tier.
★ 1,595 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.3/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.7/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.1/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 1,595 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 20d ago; 34 releases/12mo; 158 open issues
- · manual review: Docker's MCP gateway/catalog for containerized MCP servers; high issue count; license: MIT
Sources
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