# 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. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:docker-language-server ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install docker-language-server ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#docker-language-server ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/do/docker-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:docker-language-server - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.20.1 - **Source summary:** Language server for Dockerfiles, Compose files, and Bake files - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - docker-language-server (cli) - docker-language-server (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.20.1 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/docker/docker-language-server - Upstream latest detected: v0.20.1 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## 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 - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## 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:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - docker-language-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/do/docker-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ansible-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ansible-language-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [bash-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bash-language-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [clojure-lsp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/clojure-lsp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [codebook-lsp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/codebook-lsp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [crystalline](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/crystalline/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [ctags-lsp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ctags-lsp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [dhall-lsp-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dhall-lsp-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp. - [docker-compose](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/docker-compose/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compose, containers, developer-tools, docker. - [docker](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/docker/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, containers, developer, developer-tools, docker. - [docker-compose-langserver](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/docker-compose-langserver/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, compose, developer, developer-tools, docker. - [docker-engine](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/docker-engine/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, containers, developer, developer-tools, docker. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/docker-language-server.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/docker-language-server.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph