a Gradle plugin for orchestrating docker builds and pushes. Add basic tasks for building and pushing docker images based on a simple configuration block that specifies the container name, the Dockerfile, task dependencies, and any additional file resources required for the Docker build. Adds a task for populating placeholders in a docker-compose template file with image versions resolved from dependencies. Adds tasks for starting, stopping, statusing and cleaning up a named container based on a specified image. The docker plugin adds a docker Gradle component and a docker Gradle configuration that can be used to specify and publish dependencies on other Docker containers. Version conflicts between transitive dependencies of the same artifact are handled with the standard Gradle semantics: each artifact is resolved to the highest declared version.