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Docker Machine is a tool for provisioning and managing Docker hosts across local virtual machines and cloud providers. It automates the creation of Docker-ready servers, installing the Docker Engine and configuring the client to connect, all from a single command-line interface.

The project provides a unified way to create, list, start, stop, and remove Docker hosts across multiple environments, supporting both local hypervisors and various cloud platforms. Its extensible driver system allows users to build custom plugins for additional virtualization or cloud platforms, adapting the tool to different infrastructure setups.

Docker Machine also bundles Docker Engine, Compose, and Machine into a single installer for systems that cannot run Docker Desktop, enabling legacy environments to use modern container tooling. The project includes capabilities for deploying multi-container applications, orchestrating containers across clusters, building images from source code, and managing private image registries, along with features for signing and verifying container image authenticity and generating software bill of materials.