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component: docker
version: "0.9"
slug: docker/index
canonical_url: "https://docs.develocity.ai/docker/0.9/"
title: "Develocity for Docker"
description: "The Develocity Docker agent observes your Docker builder and publishes a Build Scan for every image build, capturing steps, caching, and dependencies."
keywords:
  - "docker agent"
  - "Build Scan"
  - "BuildKit"
  - "SBOM"
status: current
---

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# Develocity for Docker

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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.

> [!NOTE]
> 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.

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## 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

](https://docs.develocity.ai/docker/0.9/getting-started/)

[

Docker Agent User Manual

Full reference for configuring and extending the Docker agent

](https://docs.develocity.ai/docker/0.9/docker-agent/)

[

Release History

Changelog and version history for the Docker agent

](https://docs.develocity.ai/docker/0.9/release-history/)