# Install docker-credential-helper with Homebrew, zypper Platform keystore credential helper for Docker. Version 0.9.8 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-08. Also installable with zypper: sudo zypper install docker-credential-secretservice. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:docker-credential-helper ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install docker-credential-helper ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install docker-credential-secretservice ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: docker-credential-secretservice from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:docker-credential-helper - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.9.8 - **Source summary:** Platform keystore credential helper for Docker - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-08T21:10:10Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - docker-credential-pass (alias) - docker-credential-secretservice (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 0.9.8 ## Project history and usage Docker Credential Helpers is Docker's suite of helper binaries and Go libraries for storing registry credentials in native platform stores rather than plain Docker config JSON. ### Project history The repository was created to house the helper programs that Docker can invoke through its credential-store protocol. The README describes helpers for macOS Keychain, Linux Secret Service, Windows Credential Manager, and pass, plus libraries for client applications and for implementing new helpers. The tag history begins with v0.1.0 in 2016 and continues through the 2020s. Its development has stayed intentionally narrow: it maintains small platform-specific executables, a common credentials protocol with store/get/erase/list commands, and build/release machinery for distributing helper binaries. ### Adoption history The helper suite became part of normal Docker desktop and CLI workflows because Docker config supports a credsStore setting in ~/.docker/config.json. Users often encounter it indirectly when Docker Desktop or a package manager installs docker-credential-osxkeychain, docker-credential-wincred, docker-credential-secretservice, or docker-credential-pass. ### How it is used Users configure Docker with a credsStore value such as osxkeychain, secretservice, wincred, or pass. Docker then calls the corresponding docker-credential-* program to store, retrieve, erase, and list registry secrets. Other command-line applications can also call helpers through the Go client package documented by the project. ### Why package nerds care This is a classic small package with outsized operational effect: it is not the Docker daemon, but it determines whether registry authentication is stored in a system keychain or leaks into config files. It also explains why Docker packages often need platform-specific credential-helper binaries alongside the main CLI. ### Timeline - 2016: v0.1.0 tagged for the Docker credential helper suite. - 2017: v0.5.x releases continue early helper development. - 2022: v0.7.0 appears after a long 0.6.x line. - 2024: v0.8.x releases continue maintenance of the helper binaries. - 2026: v0.9.8 is tagged in the upstream repository. ### Related projects - Related projects include Docker CLI and Docker Engine, platform credential stores such as macOS Keychain, Secret Service, Windows Credential Manager, and pass, and service-specific helpers such as Amazon ECR Docker Credential Helper. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for docker-credential-helper. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.docker/config.json ## Other Package-Manager Records - zypper - docker-credential-secretservice - 0.9.8-1.1: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: docker-credential-secretservice from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Leverage Docker credentials with libsecret | http://www.docker.io ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/docker-credential-helper.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/docker-credential-helper.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph