What is Docker?
Docker is the standard for containerisation: your application, runtime and dependencies bundled into portable images that run the same everywhere. It's the foundation modern deployment is built on — from a single server running Compose to Kubernetes clusters — and the reason 'it works on my machine' stopped being a punchline.
Why Docker matters for your business
The riskiest part of many businesses' software isn't the code — it's the snowflake server it runs on, configured by hand years ago and understood by nobody. Containerising turns that risk into an artefact: reproducible builds, identical environments, deployments you can roll back, and onboarding that takes minutes instead of days. It's also the prerequisite for almost everything else modern — CI/CD, cloud migration, scaling.
How we help you with Docker
Containerising applications
Existing apps — modern or legacy — packaged into lean, secure images with sensible builds, secrets handling and health checks.
CI/CD pipelines
Build, test and deploy automated end to end, so shipping is a push to git rather than a ritual.
Orchestration & hosting
The right-sized setup for your scale — Docker Compose on a VPS, ECS, Cloud Run or Kubernetes — without over-engineering.
Legacy environment rescue
Hand-configured servers captured into version-controlled, reproducible containers before the person who understands them leaves.
That it makes good practice the path of least resistance. Once an app is containerised, testing it, deploying it, scaling it and handing it to a new developer all get easier at once. Most of the platforms we build on — Node, PHP, .NET, R with ShinyProxy — ship in containers we've tuned for years.