---
id: docker-pycreds
version: "0.4.0"
license: Apache License 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# docker-pycreds — Python bindings for the docker credentials store API

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 11.5M/mo

## What it is and what it does

docker-pycreds is a Python wrapper around Docker's credential storage API, enabling programmatic access to store, retrieve, list, and erase Docker credentials. It depends on six for Python 2/3 compatibility and requires the docker-credential helper executable to be present on the system.

The package is designed for scenarios where you need to interact with Docker credentials from Python code rather than through the Docker CLI. It wraps the underlying credential store that Docker itself uses. However, the project is no longer maintained—the last release was 2018-11-29 and the repository shows no recent activity, which raises concerns about compatibility with modern Docker versions and Python releases.

Use it for:

- Automate credential management in Docker-based deployment scripts or CI/CD pipelines
- Build tools that need to authenticate with Docker registries without storing credentials in plaintext
- Integrate Docker credential retrieval into custom Python applications that orchestrate containers
- Manage multiple Docker registry credentials programmatically across different environments

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides Python bindings to interact with Docker's credential storage API, allowing you to store, retrieve, and manage Docker credentials programmatically.

No, unless you are maintaining legacy code that already depends on it. The package is abandoned (last release 2018-11-29, no commits since 2022-06-28), offers no active maintenance or security updates, and its compatibility with modern Python and Docker versions is unverified. For new projects, consider alternatives.

## Install

pip install docker-pycreds
uv add docker-pycreds
poetry add docker-pycreds

## Installing docker-pycreds

Before you install: Low install friction with a single lightweight dependency (six). However, the package is abandoned—last release was 2018-11-29 and last commit 2022-06-28—so it receives no active maintenance or security updates.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache License 2.0 (permissive), which allows broad use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install docker-pycreds

import docker-pycreds

store = docker-pycreds.Store('secretservice')
store.store(server='https://index.docker.io/v1/', username='user', secret='pass')
print(store.get('https://index.docker.io/v1/'))

The docker-credential executable for your platform must be installed on the system; the package provides Python bindings only and does not provide the credential helper itself.

Verify before relying:

- Compatibility with modern Python versions (classifiers list only up to 3.6; current support unclear)
- Whether the package works with current Docker credential store implementations
- Active security status given the 2018 release date and no recent updates

## Package facts

- License: Apache License 2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 11.5M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

docker credentials store python, docker credential management api, store docker login credentials, docker-credential bindings, access docker secrets programmatically, docker, credentials, abandoned

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