Introducing the New Docker Homepage

Coming with Getting a new container up and running from scratch can feel overwhelming, regardless o

Coming with Getting a new container up and running from scratch can feel overwhelming, regardless of whether you’re working in a large enterprise or starting your own personal project. You might be thinking: Our newest Docker Desktop release helps answer these questions thanks to the new homepage on Docker Desktop. The new homepage helps you containerize your application by introducing fundamental concepts, in a developer friendly way, to get your containers up and running faster. When you , you’ll be able to one-click run four of the most popular to help you tackle common challenges faced when using containers. The best part about the new homepage? You finally have a clear path to run your first image without leaving Docker Desktop and being sent to the CLI. This is only the first release of the new homepage with a goal to collect feedback from the community. We plan to add more Featured Images, and the ability to search for images, in subsequent releases. Let us know what else you’d like to see on the new homepage! Let’s introduce one of our Featured Images! NGINX is one of the most popular web servers in the world, that’s why we included it as a one-click run option. Before introducing the one-click run functionality, serving custom static content required the user to navigate to the command line and enter a string similar to Now, if you’d like to be able to run a static website on your local machine, just click RUN and select your local folder in which the static content exists. When running NGINX from the new homepage, Docker will automatically: mount the static content into a volume, expose a port to the host, and start running so you can click a link and view the web page in your browser. To read more on how to use this image outside the homepage see our past blog . As mentioned earlier, in the first iteration of the homepage, we’ll have four images available to one-click run. We love partnering with our community, so please share any feedback on the new homepage via our . Have other ideas for the Docker Dashboard? Leave feedback via the new “Give Feedback” button right in the Dashboard, there’s one on every tab!