Audience
Developers and engineering teams building or operating agentic AI systems requiring a secure, unified containerized gateway to manage and serve MCP-based AI tools to multiple clients
About Docker MCP Gateway
Docker MCP Gateway is an open source core component of the Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit that runs Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in isolated Docker containers with restricted privileges, network access, and resource limits to ensure secure, consistent execution environments for AI tools. It manages the entire lifecycle of MCP servers, including starting containers on demand when an AI application needs a tool, injecting required credentials, applying security restrictions, and routing requests so the server processes them and returns results through a unified gateway interface. By consolidating all enabled MCP containers behind a single, unified endpoint, the Gateway simplifies how AI clients discover and access multiple MCP services, reducing duplication, improving performance, and centralizing configuration and authentication.