Docker Verified Publisher Program

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The Docker Verified Publisher Program provides high-quality images from commercial publishers verified by Docker.

These images help development teams build secure software supply chains, minimizing exposure to malicious content early in the process to save time and money later.

Who's eligible to become a verified publisher?

Any independent software vendor who distributes software on Docker Hub can join the Verified Publisher Program. Find out more by heading to the Docker Verified Publisher Program page.

Note

DVP entitlements are applied per namespace (organization). If you operate multiple Docker Hub namespaces, each requires a separate DVP application and verification process.

Program benefits

The Docker Verified Publisher Program (DVP) provides several features and benefits to Docker Hub publishers. The program grants the following perks based on participation tier:

Enterprise-grade infrastructure

The Docker Verified Publisher Program runs on Docker Hub's enterprise-scale infrastructure, serving millions of developers globally. Your published content benefits from:

  • High availability and uptime: Docker's systems are designed for failover across multiple availability zones, with load-balanced autoscaling, enabling 99.9% uptime.
  • Global delivery and fast downloads: Docker leverages Cloudflare's CDN and caching (with Cache Reserve) to achieve cache hit ratios more than 99%, reducing reliance on origin traffic and ensuring fast access for developers everywhere.
  • Durability: Docker maintains a documented backup policy and performs full daily backups of production data.

You simply push your images to Docker Hub as usual, and Docker takes care of the rest, serving your image to millions of developers worldwide.

DVP flow in Docker Hub

To learn more, see Availability at Docker.

Verified publisher badge

Images that are part of this program have a special badge on Docker Hub making it easier for users to identify projects that Docker has verified as high-quality commercial publishers.

Docker-Sponsored Open Source badge

DVP organizations can upload custom images for individual repositories on Docker Hub. This lets you override the default organization-level logo on a per-repository basis.

To manage the repository logo, see Manage repository logo.

Vulnerability analysis

Docker Scout provides automatic vulnerability analysis for DVP images published to Docker Hub. Scanning images ensures that the published content is secure, and proves to developers that they can trust the image.

You can enable analysis on a per-repository basis. For more about using this feature, see Basic vulnerability scanning.

Priority search ranking

Verified publisher images receive enhanced visibility in Docker Hub search results, making it easier for developers to discover your content. This improved discoverability helps drive adoption of your images within the developer community.

Removal of rate limiting

Verified publisher images are exempt from standard Docker Hub rate limits, ensuring developers can pull your images without restrictions. This applies to all users, including unauthenticated users, who get unlimited pulls for DVP images. This eliminates potential barriers to adoption and provides a seamless experience for users of your content.

DVP partners can verify this unlimited access by checking the absence of rate limiting headers when pulling their images. When pulling DVP images, users won't see ratelimit-limit or ratelimit-remaining headers, indicating unlimited access. For more details on checking rate limits, see View pull rate and limit.

Co-marketing opportunities

Docker collaborates with verified publishers on joint marketing initiatives, including blog posts, case studies, webinars, and conference presentations. These opportunities help amplify your brand visibility within the Docker ecosystem.

Insights and analytics

The insights and analytics service provides usage metrics for how the community uses Docker images, granting insight into user behavior.

There is both a web interface and an API for accessing the analytics data.

The usage metrics show the number of image pulls by tag or by digest, geolocation, cloud provider, client, and more.

After joining the Docker Verified Publisher Program, you can set a custom logo for each repository in your organization. The following requirements apply:

  • The supported filetypes for the logo image are JPEG and PNG.
  • The minimum allowed image size in pixels is 120×120.
  • The maximum allowed image size in pixels is 1000×1000.
  • The maximum allowed image file size is 5MB.

Only a user with an owner or editor role for the organization can change the repository logo.

  1. Sign in to Docker Hub.
  2. Go to the page of the repository that you want to change the logo for.
  3. Select the upload logo button, represented by a camera icon ( camera icon ) overlaying the current repository logo.
  4. In the dialog that opens, select the PNG image that you want to upload to set it as the logo for the repository.

Select the Clear button ( clear button ) to remove a logo.

Removing the logo makes the repository default to using the organization logo, if set, or the following default logo if not.

Default logo which is a 3D grey cube