To celebrate International Women’s Day, we sat down with Cecilia Liu, Senior Product Manager at Docker, for three questions about the vision and strategy behind Docker’s MCP solutions.From shaping product direction to driving AI innovation, Cecilia plays a key role in defining how Docker enables secure, scalable AI tooling. Cecilia leads product management for Docker’s MCP Catalog and Toolkit, our solution for running MCP servers securely and at scale through containerization.She drives Docker’s AI strategy across

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Your Package Manager, Now with a Security Upgrade

Last December, we made Docker Hardened Images (DHI) free because we believe secure, minimal, production-ready images should be the default.Every developer deserves strong security at no cost.It should not be complicated or locked behind a paywall. From the start, flexibility mattered just as much as security.Unlike opaque, proprietary hardened alternatives, DHI is built on trusted open source foundations like Alpine and Debian.That gives teams true multi-distro flexibility without forcing change.If you

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vLLM has quickly become the go-to inference engine for developers who need high-throughput LLM serving.We brought vLLM to Docker Model Runner for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, then extended it to Windows via WSL2. That changes today.Docker Model Runner now supports vllm-metal, a new backend that brings vLLM inference to macOS using Apple Silicon’s Metal GPU.If you have a Mac with an M-series chip, you can now run MLX models through vLLM with the same OpenAI-compatible API, same

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Are in-person tech conferences back in fashion?Or are engineers just willing to travel for fresh baguettes?In this post, I round up a few highlights from KubeCon Europe 2024, held March 19-24 in Paris. My last KubeCon was in Detroit in 2022, when tech events were still slowly recovering from COVID.But KubeCon EU in Paris was buzzing, with more than 12,000 attendees!I couldn’t even get into a few of the most popular talks because the lines to get in wrapped around

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