Docker Offload

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Scanned 25 Sep 2026 · Schema v5 · features v18

From: —
Sales-led enterprise subscription on top of Docker Business ('Predictable pricing'); no public price.
Free tier: No
Card requirement unconfirmed.
Isolation: Virtual machine
hypervisor, or nothing at all
Regions: —
Landing claims '40+ regions for resiliency' / '40+ regions available' but lists none and the docs document no region selection. Company-wide sub-processors host in the US (AWS N. Virginia, Google US).
Capabilities: 3 / 55
7 partial · 39 fail · 6 not assessed
Agent readiness: 10/11 · 5/11
read · drive, pre-login surface

Advertised for

Container builds and runs from VDI / managed desktops without nested virtualization · Docker compose dev stacks on low powered or locked down machines · Enterprise developer environments under central admin control

Built for

Developers, then technical

· the unchanged Docker CLI / Compose / Desktop is the interface
· vocabulary: daemon, SSH tunnel, bind mounts, nested virtualization, VDI

01 Pricing Sales-led enterprise subscription on top of Docker Business ('Predictable pricing'); no public price.

Tier	EntryMulti-Tenant	Single-Tenant	TopBYOC (coming soon)
Price	Contact sales	Contact sales	Contact sales
Includes	VM-level isolation, Docker-managed infrastructure, SOC 2	Dedicated VPC, private connectivity, enhanced network isolation	Customer-controlled data plane

unknown (per named user implied by fair-use terms)·Card required: unconfirmed·docker.com

Overages: Not published; fair-use session management beyond 8 compute hours/user/day 'at Docker's discretion'.

02 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.

Isolation & lifecycle

Isolation primitive

Virtual machinehypervisor, or nothing at all

Persistence

ephemeral

Snapshots / forks

Resources & limits

Storage

Ephemeral per-session VM storage (containers, images, volumes deleted at session end); local bind mounts synced over the tunnel.

Limits & quotas

4 vCPU / 8 GiB host; one session per user; idle prompt after 3 min of inactivity, terminated 5 min after going idle; long-session prompts every 3h (hourly after 8h/day); fair use = up to 8 compute hours per named user per day.

GPU

Access

Deploy interface

clidashboardcontainer-imagedockerfile

SDK languages

None

Network & secrets

Egress controls

Secrets

Yes

Bring your own cloud

coming soon

Placement & use

Jurisdiction

United States (inferred) — Docker's cloud sub-processors are AWS (N. Virginia) and Google (US); product page claims 40+ regions without listing them

Advertised workloads

Container builds and runs from VDI / managed desktops without nested virtualizationDocker compose dev stacks on low powered or locked down machinesEnterprise developer environments under central admin control

03 Capabilities 3 pass · 7 partial · 39 fail · 55 of 61 assessed

Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
Not supported — Checked and not offered.
Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.

Compute & storage 0/9

Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).

Not supported

Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.

Not supported

Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).

Not supported

Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.

Not assessed

Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.

Partially supported

GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.

Not supported

Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.

Partially supported

Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).

Not supported

Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.

Not supported

Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.

Not supported

Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.

Not assessed

Networking & delivery 0/8

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.

Not supported

Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.

Not supported

Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.

Not supported

Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.

Not supported

Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.

Not supported

Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).

Not supported

Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.

Partially supported

Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.

Not supported

Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.

Not applicable

Developer access 1/8

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.

Not supported

OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.

Not supported

CLIOfficial command-line tool.

Supported

SDKOfficial client library/libraries.

Not supported

SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.

Not supported

Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.

Not supported

Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.

Not supported

Private container registryHosted private image registry.

Not supported

E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).

Not assessed

HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.

Not applicable

AI & agents 0/11

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.

Not supported

Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.

Not supported

AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.

Not supported

MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.

Partially supported

MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.

Not supported

MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).

Not supported

LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).

Not supported

BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.

Not supported

Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.

Not supported

Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).

Not supported

Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).

Not supported

Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).

Not assessed

Data 0/1

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.

Not supported

Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.

Not applicable

Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.

Not applicable

Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.

Not applicable

Platform & operations 0/5

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.

Not supported

Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.

Not supported

Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).

Not supported

Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).

Partially supported

Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.

Not supported

Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).

Not applicable

Organisation & security 2/7

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.

Not supported

SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.

Supported

Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.

Partially supported

TeamsMulti-user team accounts.

Supported

SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).

Not supported

BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.

Partially supported

Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).

Not assessed

Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).

Not assessed

Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.

Not supported

Proposed, not verified

Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.

Transparent remote Docker daemon (existing docker/compose CLI auto-routed to a cloud VM over an SSH tunnel, with bind mounts + port-forwarding back to the laptop)remote-docker-daemon
“Docker Desktop creates a secure SSH tunnel to a Docker daemon running in the cloud … features like bind mounts and port forwarding continue to work seamlessly” docs.docker.com

04 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade

Can an agent read it?

parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces

10/11

7 full · 3 partial · 91% of applicable checks

llms.txt
Supported
“docs.docker.com/llms.txt (v3: docs-subdomain copy counts) links '[Docker Offload](https://docs.docker.com/offload/): Build and run containers in the cloud.' plus per-section .md URLs.”
llms-full.txt
Partially supported
“docs.docker.com/llms-full.txt is page metadata + markdown URLs, not full text (same file as docker-sandboxes).”
robots.txt AI policy
Supported
“docs.docker.com/robots.txt: 'Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes'.”
JSON-LD
Partially supported
“Corporation/WebSite + FAQPage graphs; no SoftwareApplication/Product.”
Sitemap
Supported
“docs sitemap lists all 8 Offload pages + CLI reference; www sitemap_index present.”
Meta tags
Supported
“<title>Docker Offload: Supercharging Cloud-Native Development | Docker</title> + description + OG + twitter:card.”
Markdown negotiation
Supported
“docs.docker.com serves <page>.md and text/markdown on Accept negotiation.”
Content efficiency
Partially supported
“Readable text / HTML = 2.95% on the product page.”
Docs discoverable
Supported
“'Read the docs' → docs.docker.com/offload linked on the product page (plain HTML).”
Machine-readable pricing
Not supported
“No price anywhere — 'Contact sales' only; not on docker.com/pricing.”
No anti-bot wall
Supported
“No challenge on public pages/docs.”

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

5/11

1 full · 4 partial · 45% of applicable checks

Public API
Not supported
“No Offload API — CLI and Desktop toggle only.”
OpenAPI spec
Not supported
“None.”
MCP server
Partially supported
“Docs-search MCP only (mcp-docs.docker.com/mcp).”
SDK packages
Not supported
“None.”
Auth documented
Partially supported
“'Verify authentication with docker login' — basic account sign-in, no API auth to document.”
Self-serve credentials
Not supported
“Human/sales only: 'contact sales and subscribe your organization'; requires Docker Business + an Offload subscription.”
Webhooks
Not supported
“None.”
CLI tool
Supported
“`docker offload` CLI plugin (start/status/stop/diagnose/version).”
Error model
Not supported
“No API error model.”
Rate limits documented
Partially supported
“Fair-use limit documented ('up to 8 compute hours per named user per day'; one session per user) — usage policy, not API rate limits.”
Agent config files
Partially supported
“One agent-facing surface (Docker docs llms.txt + docs MCP); no agents.md / /.well-known/agent / skills listing.”

05 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 0

The public surface names no coding harness as supported or documented-to-run-here.

Plausible compatibility 0

Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.

No general shell access documented, so nothing is derived. Absence is not unsupported.

06 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score

Certifications held 3

SOC 2 Type II
certifiedhostedProduct explicitly in scope; the product page repeats 'SOC 2 Certified'.
“The current SOC 2 Type 2 audit report includes Docker Desktop, Hub, Scout, Build Cloud, Testcontainers Cloud, Docker Hardened Images (DHI), and Offload.”
Source docker.comConfidence: high
CCPA
self-attestedhostedCompany-wide.
“Docker complies with leading privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, …”
Source docker.comConfidence: medium
GDPR
self-attestedhostedCompany-wide.
“Docker complies with leading privacy regulations like GDPR, CCPA, …”
Source docker.comConfidence: medium

Regions —

Regions are not disclosed on the public surface.

Landing claims '40+ regions for resiliency' / '40+ regions available' but lists none and the docs document no region selection. Company-wide sub-processors host in the US (AWS N. Virginia, Google US).

Legal

Privacy notice Terms of service

07 Company & presence Facts only, not scored

Company

Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA, USA (mailing address); fully remote company with office hubs in Paris and Seattle
Founded: 2013 (Docker first demoed publicly at PyCon, 2013-03-15, by founder Solomon Hykes; the company began as dotCloud)
Team size: Not disclosed
Hiring: actively hiring — 58 open roles on the Ashby board (2026-09-25)

Funding

2022-03-31Series C · $105M

Notable people

Don Johnson (CEO)
Mark Cavage (President & COO)
Tushar Jain (CTO)
Mat Velloso (CPO)
Jean-Laurent de Morlhon (SVP GenAI Acceleration)

Activity

Last release: Requires Docker Desktop 4.68 or later (troubleshooting doc, 2026-09-25); no separate Offload changelog. docs.docker.com
Last blog post: Docker blog active — posts dated Sep 24, 2026. docker.com

Presence 4

Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.

08 Sources & method How this entry was produced

Public surface only

Everything here was read from docker.com's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 25 Sep 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.

Statuses, not scores

Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v18). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.

Confidence is separate

Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.

Schema: scan v5
Features registry: v18
Keys tracked today: 61
Assessed on this entry: 55

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