Docker MCP Catalog, Toolkit & Gateway
https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/
Docker's catalog of containerized MCP servers with a Desktop toolkit and an open-source MCP Gateway (docker mcp CLI plugin). An enterprise gateway authenticates users, scopes servers and tools, applies per-call policy and supplies credentials.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 19 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T3
- Section
- MCP gateways & registries
- Created
- 2025-04-22 repo fix
- Latest release
- last commit 2026-10-26 repo fix
- License
- proprietary; mcp-gateway MIT vendor fix
- GitHub
- https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway (1616★) repo fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-client, mcp-server repo fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, iso27001, iso27701, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
searched not found
Cons
searched not found
Claims & capabilities
Start typing to search the documentation
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- searched not found
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- searched not found
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- yes
Alternatives to Docker MCP Catalog, Toolkit & Gateway → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support
Similar systems
Other mcp gateways & registries in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Cloudflare MCP server portals T3
Cloudflare One feature that puts multiple MCP servers behind a single HTTP endpoint secured by Cloudflare Access, with customized tools and per-user policies for MCP clients.
- Ghost Beacon T4
Zero-dependency Node.js MCP server (npx -y github:moecanales/agent-oracle-beacon) exposing nine tools: GitHub-Issue context rollover and comment-mutex extraction (GBR-2500), board-game rules lookup over bundled CC0 datasets, an agent transcript scanner, and A2A discovery with DNS/TLS checks. Submitted by its author (issue #194); GBR-2500 (issue #299) is one of its tools in the same repository, not a separate system.
- Glama MCP T3
Searchable directory of more than 112,000 MCP servers with license, quality and maintenance grades, plus an MCP directory API and connectors for agents.
- IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway T3
Open-source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A and REST/gRPC APIs behind one endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails, governance and plugins.
- Kong AI Gateway T3
Kong's gateway for governing LLM, MCP and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic in one place. It controls access, data leakage and token usage for LLM calls, and generates and secures MCP servers for agents.
- Lunar.dev MCPX T3
Enterprise MCP and AI gateway (MCPX) that secures and governs AI applications and agents with policy enforcement, cost management and observability. Boomi acquired Lunar.dev in July 2026.
Sources (18 cited facts, 0 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Product vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Docker's catalog of containerized MCP servers with a Desktop toolkit and an open-source … vendor
- Claims / benefits Start typing to search the documentation vendor
- Created 2025-04-22 repo
- Latest release last commit 2026-10-26 repo
- License proprietary; mcp-gateway MIT vendor
- GitHub https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway (1616★) repo
- Mindshare 1616 GitHub stars repo
- OTel yes vendor
- Project & sources https://docs.docker.com/ai/mcp-catalog-and-toolkit/ ; https://github.com/docker/mcp-gate… vendor
- obs-opentelemetry yes vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications gdpr,iso27001,iso27701,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages go repo
- protocol-support mcp-client,mcp-server repo
- maturity beta vendor
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-30 Added to the catalog #347
Related systems
References (9)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Claude Desktop. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Claude Code (Anthropic) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Claude Code. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Continue.dev integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Continue. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cursor (IDE) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Cursor. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Goose (Block) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Goose. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit page: management interface to run containerized MCP servers and connect them to MCP clients. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Codex CLI integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Codex. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Opencode (SST) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for OpenCode. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zed (Agentic Editing) integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Zed. (verified 2026-10-29)