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description: Docker Store programs and policies for publishers
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keywords: Docker, docker, store, publishers, publish images
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title: Docker Store overview
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**The Docker Store is now generally available!**
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To learn more about publishing, browse the topics below along with the
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[publishers guide](publish.md), and [apply to be a
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publisher](https://store.docker.com/publisher/signup).
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## What is Docker Store?
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For publishers, Docker Store is the best way for you to distribute and sell your
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Dockerized content. Publish your software through the Docker Store to experience
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the benefits below:
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* Access to Docker’s large and growing customer-base. Docker has
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experienced rapid adoption, and is wildly popular in dev-ops
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environments. Docker users have pulled images over four billion times,
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and they are increasingly turning to the Docker Store as the canonical
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source for high-quality, curated content.
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* Customers can try or buy your software, right from your product listing. Your
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content is accessible for installation, trial, and purchase from the Docker
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Store and the Docker CLI.
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* Use our licensing support. We can limit access to your software to
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a) logged-in users, b) users who have purchased a license, or
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c) all Docker users. We’ll help you manage and control your distribution.
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* We'll handle checkout. You don’t have to set up your own digital e-commerce
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site when you sell your content through the Docker Store. We'll even help you
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set pricing—and you can forget about the rest.
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* Seamless updates and upgrades. We tell customers when your content
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has upgrades or updates available, right inside their Docker host product.
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* It’s a win-win for our platform and publishers: great content improves our
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ecosystem, and our flexible platform helps you bring your content to market.
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* Achieve the Docker Certified quality mark. Publisher container images and
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plugins that meet the quality, security, and support criteria of the program
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will display a “Docker Certified” badge within the Docker Store and external
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marketing.
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### Distribution Models
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The Docker Store welcomes free and open-source content, as well as software sold
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directly by publishers. We support the following commercial models:
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#### Paid-via-Docker Content
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This is content for which customers transact via Docker, as described in the
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publisher agreement. Paid-via-Docker content includes both software than can be
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deployed on a host, as well as software that runs in the cloud and can be
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accessed by the customer via an ambassador container (containerized cloud
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services, for example).
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#### Free Content
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Free content is provided free-of-charge, and customers may pull it from the
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Docker Hub either at their discretion or upon license acceptance, at the
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publisher’s discretion. You agree that you will not charge customers for any
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Free Content by making it available for purchase outside of the Docker Store.
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## What's next?
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* To learn about submitting products and content to Docker Store, see the [publishers guide](publish.md).
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* To learn about using Docker Store to download content, see the [consumer FAQs](faq.md).
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