macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install docker-language-serverlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install docker-language-server with Homebrew, Nix
Language server for Dockerfiles, Compose files, and Bake files. Version 0.20.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#docker-language-servernixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/do/docker-language-server/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Language server for Dockerfiles, Compose files, and Bake files
Project links
Commands and aliases
- docker-language-server
history
Project history and usage
Docker Language Server is Docker's LSP server for Dockerfiles, Compose files, and Bake files. It moves Docker authoring features into editors through the Language Server Protocol.
Project history
The README describes the project as a language server for the Docker ecosystem, covering Dockerfiles, Compose files, and Bake files. It depends on Buildx for some features and exposes diagnostics, hover, completion, code navigation, formatting, document links, inlay hints, and related editor behaviors.
The public tag history starts with v0.1.0 in March 2025, and the changelog shows rapid feature work through 2025. Early releases added Compose and Bake editing features, Dockerfile linting and image intelligence, Docker Hub suggestions, WSL URI fixes, schema updates, and release automation.
Adoption history
The project is young, but its adoption path is official: the README says Docker maintains the Docker DX Visual Studio Code extension as a supported client, and CLIENTS.md documents use with any LSP-capable editor plus JetBrains through LSP4IJ. Homebrew and Nix packaging make it available outside VS Code-centric distribution.
How it is used
Users run docker-language-server start over stdio or TCP and connect it to an editor. The server provides Dockerfile, Compose, and Bake language features, with optional initialization settings for telemetry, Compose support, Dockerfile diagnostic overlap handling, and experimental Bake code-lens capabilities.
Why package nerds care
This package is significant because Docker authoring moved from syntax highlighting into an official language-server binary. For package nerds, it is a compact example of modern CLI packaging: an editor-facing Go executable that pulls together Dockerfile syntax, Compose schemas, Bake, Buildx, BuildKit, Docker Scout, telemetry settings, and cross-editor LSP conventions.
Timeline
- 2025: v0.1.0 is tagged as the first public release line.
- 2025: v0.5.0-v0.10.x releases add rapid Compose, Dockerfile, and Bake language features.
- 2025: v0.17.0 adds Dockerfile inlay hints for image push age and Docker Hub image-tag suggestions for Compose.
- 2025: v0.20.1 is documented in the changelog with Bake schema fixes.
- 2026: the package appears in Homebrew and Nix metadata.
Related projects
- Related projects include Docker DX for Visual Studio Code, the Language Server Protocol, Dockerfile reference documentation, Compose specification, Docker Bake, Buildx, BuildKit, Docker Scout, rcjsuen/dockerfile-language-server, tliron/glsp, and LSP4IJ.
Sources
- https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server#readme
- https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server/blob/main/CLIENTS.md
- https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server/releases
- https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server/tags
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:server
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
docker-language-server | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-07
manager version0.20.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.20.1
https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:docker-language-server |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.20.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/docker-language-server |
| Homepage | https://www.docker.com |
| Repository | https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server#readme |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server/archive/refs/tags/v0.20.1.tar.gz |
| Build dependencies | go |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | docker-language-server |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
docker-language-server
nix profile install nixpkgs#docker-language-server- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Docker Language Server
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment