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description: Home page for Docker's documentation
keywords: Docker, documentation, manual, guide, reference, api, samples
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title: Docker Documentation
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Docker packages your app with its dependencies, freeing you from worrying about
your system configuration, and making your app more portable.

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### Learn Docker basics

Get started learning Docker concepts, tools, and commands. The examples show you
how to build, push, and pull Docker images, and run them as containers. This
tutorial stops short of teaching you how to deploy applications.
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{% capture basics %}[Start the basic tutorial](/engine/getstarted/){: class="button outline-btn"}{% endcapture %}{{ basics | markdownify }}
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### Define and deploy apps in Swarm Mode

Learn how to relate containers to each other, define them as services, and
configure an application stack ready to deploy at scale in a production
environment. Highlights Compose Version 3 new features and swarm mode.
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{% capture apps %}[Start the application tutorial](/engine/getstarted-voting-app/){: class="button outline-btn"}{% endcapture %}{{ apps | markdownify }}
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## Products

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                <h3 id="docker-cloud"><a href="docker-cloud/">Docker Cloud</a></h3>
                <p>A hosted service for building, testing, and deploying Docker images to your hosts.</p>
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                <h3 id="ucp"><a href="datacenter/ucp/2.1/guides/">Docker Universal Control Plane</a></h3>
                <p>(UCP) Manage a cluster of on-premise Docker hosts like a single machine with this enterprise product.</p>
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                    <h3 id="dtr"><a href="datacenter/dtr/2.2/guides/">Docker Trusted Registry</a></h3>
                    <p>(DTR) An enterprise image storage solution you can install behind a firewall to manage images and access.</p>
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## Tools

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                <h3 id="docker-for-mac"><a href="docker-for-mac/">Docker for Mac</a></h3>
                <p>A native application using the macOS sandbox security model which delivers all Docker tools to your Mac.</p>
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                <p>A native Windows application which delivers all Docker tools to your Windows computer.</p>
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                <p>Install Docker on a computer which already has a Linux distribution installed.</p>
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                <p>Platform matrix and superset of installers for Docker for desktops, servers, or cloud providers.</p>
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                    <p>Define application stacks built using multiple containers, services, and swarm configurations.</p>
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                    <p>Automate container provisioning on your network or in the cloud. Available for Windows, macOS, or Linux.</p>
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