Develocity for Docker

Use Develocity for Docker to publish a Build Scan for each Docker image build to your Develocity instance. Each Build Scan captures build step timing, cache usage, console output, failures, and the dependencies of the produced image.

Docker support is not enabled by default. To enable it, contact Develocity support.

The Develocity Docker agent is a long-running daemon that observes your Docker builder. Unlike other Develocity build agents, it requires no change to your Dockerfiles, build commands, or CI scripts: once the daemon is running on a host, it captures every image build performed by that host’s builder.

Key Capabilities

  • Publish a Build Scan for every image build performed by an observed Docker builder, with a shareable URL

  • Inspect each build step’s timing, cache usage, and console output

  • See failures in the Build Scan, and retrieve BuildKit warnings with their Dockerfile source ranges through the Develocity API and MCP server

  • Explore the base, builder, and frontend images your build depends on, resolved from build provenance

  • Optionally capture the packages inside the produced image as a software bill of materials (SBOM)

  • Enrich each Build Scan with custom tags, values, and links passed as build arguments

Get Started
Install the Docker agent and publish your first Build Scan
Docker Agent User Manual
Full reference for configuring and extending the Docker agent
Release History
Changelog and version history for the Docker agent