Estimated reading time: 1 minuteLegacy desktop solution. Kitematic is a legacy solution, bundled with Docker Toolbox. We recommend updating to Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows if your system meets the requirements for one of those applications.
Yes! Our source code is available on GitHub. Kitematic is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.
We always welcome (and deeply appreciate!) new contributions to the project. The best way to start contributing to Kitematic is to review our doc on contributing.
Kitematic connects directly to a running instance of Docker and controls it via the Docker Engine API.
Right now Kitematic works on macOS and Windows. Linux is planned in the future. Review our product roadmap.
Kitematic tracks anonymous errors and analytics to help understand why things go wrong and to help understand how users are interacting with the app so we can continuously make it better.
You can opt-out of this anytime via the in-app preferences.
We’d love to answer any more questions about this. Feel free to reach us at kitematic@docker.com or to open an issue on GitHub.
For information about known issues in the current release of Kitematic, take a look at the Known issues.