Docker x Warp
Olivia Johnston

Warp’s journey with Docker began when a team member went looking for a more user-friendly terminal experience. As she started saving her most-used workflows in Warp Drive, she realized it could streamline repetitive workflows and improve team productivity.

Starting Point
The Docker provisioning team was dealing with a series of highly manual, repetitive processes. That long task list created a few key challenges:
Onboarding was difficult: New hires had to rely on a lengthy Notion document, and it typically took around four weeks to get fully ramped up.
No single source of truth: When processes changed, there wasn’t a clear way to keep everyone in sync.
Manual, fragmented processes: Many tasks required jumping between GitHub and internal docs to find the right command or workflow.
The team saw an opportunity: by solving these pain points, they could unlock meaningful efficiency gains.
Solution
Warp became the central hub for the implementation team’s workflows.
Warp Drive: The team built a shared library of over 40 reusable commands. As processes changed, they could easily update workflows in Warp Drive, and those changes automatically synced across every team member’s terminal. This eliminated confusion and kept everyone aligned.
Warp AI: Instead of digging through docs, the team started asking Warp AI technical questions—like how to look up DNS information for a domain—directly in the terminal. It gave them fast, accurate answers without having to break their flow.
Results
Adopting Warp led to fast, meaningful improvements for Docker’s implementation team. Onboarding time dropped by a full week (a 25% reduction) thanks to clearer, more accessible workflows. Team efficiency also improved across the board—people were able to stay in flow and updates to processes were instantly shared with everyone.
The benefits extended to coverage, too. When someone was out of office, others could easily step in thanks to the centralized, searchable command library.
What started as a better way to run commands quickly became a better way to work together.