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The Moby Project
Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable and accelerate software containerization.
It provides a "Lego set" of toolkit components, the framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems, and a place for all container enthusiasts and professionals to experiment and exchange ideas. Components include container build tools, a container registry, orchestration tools, a runtime and more, and these can be used as building blocks in conjunction with other tools and projects.
Principles
Moby is an open project guided by strong principles, aiming to be modular, flexible and without too strong an opinion on user experience. It is open to the community to help set its direction.
- Modular: the project includes lots of components that have well-defined functions and APIs that work together.
- Batteries included but swappable: Moby includes enough components to build fully featured container system, but its modular architecture ensures that most of the components can be swapped by different implementations.
- Usable security: Moby provides secure defaults without compromising usability.
- Developer focused: The APIs are intended to be functional and useful to build powerful tools. They are not necessarily intended as end user tools but as components aimed at developers. Documentation and UX is aimed at developers not end users.
Audience
The Moby Project is intended for engineers, integrators and enthusiasts looking to modify, hack, fix, experiment, invent and build systems based on containers. It is not for people looking for a commercially supported system, but for people who want to work and learn with open source code.
Relationship with Docker
The components and tools in the Moby Project are initially the open source components that Docker and the community have built for the Docker Project. New projects can be added if they fit with the community goals. Docker is committed to using Moby as the upstream for the Docker Product. However, other projects are also encouraged to use Moby as an upstream, and to reuse the components in diverse ways, and all these uses will be treated in the same way. External maintainers and contributors are welcomed.
The Moby project is not intended as a location for support or feature requests for Docker products, but as a place for contributors to work on open source code, fix bugs, and make the code more useful. The releases are supported by the maintainers, community and users, on a best efforts basis only, and are not intended for customers who want enterprise or commercial support; Docker EE is the appropriate product for these use cases.
Legal
Brought to you courtesy of our legal counsel. For more context, please see the NOTICE document in this repo.
Use and transfer of Moby may be subject to certain restrictions by the United States and other governments.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your use and/or transfer does not violate applicable laws.
For more information, please see https://www.bis.doc.gov
Licensing
Moby is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.
Directories
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types
Package types is used for API stability in the types and response to the consumers of the API stats endpoint.
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Package types is used for API stability in the types and response to the consumers of the API stats endpoint. |
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types/filters
Package filters provides tools for encoding a mapping of keys to a set of multiple values.
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Package filters provides tools for encoding a mapping of keys to a set of multiple values. |
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types/swarm/runtime
Package runtime is a generated protocol buffer package.
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Package runtime is a generated protocol buffer package. |
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cli
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daemon
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Package dockerversion is auto-generated at build-time
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Package dockerversion is auto-generated at build-time |
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Package errdefs defines a set of error interfaces that packages should use for communicating classes of errors.
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Package errdefs defines a set of error interfaces that packages should use for communicating classes of errors. |
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Package layer is package for managing read-only and read-write mounts on the union file system driver.
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Package layer is package for managing read-only and read-write mounts on the union file system driver. |
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locker
Package locker provides a mechanism for creating finer-grained locking to help free up more global locks to handle other tasks.
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Package locker provides a mechanism for creating finer-grained locking to help free up more global locks to handle other tasks. |
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parsers/kernel
Package kernel provides helper function to get, parse and compare kernel versions for different platforms.
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Package kernel provides helper function to get, parse and compare kernel versions for different platforms. |
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plugins
Package plugins provides structures and helper functions to manage Docker plugins.
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Package plugins provides structures and helper functions to manage Docker plugins. |
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pools
Package pools provides a collection of pools which provide various data types with buffers.
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Package pools provides a collection of pools which provide various data types with buffers. |
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stringid
Package stringid provides helper functions for dealing with string identifiers
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Package stringid provides helper functions for dealing with string identifiers |
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tarsum
Package tarsum provides algorithms to perform checksum calculation on filesystem layers.
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Package tarsum provides algorithms to perform checksum calculation on filesystem layers. |
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term
Package term provides structures and helper functions to work with terminal (state, sizes).
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Package term provides structures and helper functions to work with terminal (state, sizes). |
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useragent
Package useragent provides helper functions to pack version information into a single User-Agent header.
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Package useragent provides helper functions to pack version information into a single User-Agent header. |
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Package registry contains client primitives to interact with a remote Docker registry.
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Package registry contains client primitives to interact with a remote Docker registry. |