Cloud computing, which is rapidly growing as one of the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, has become the center of global IT trend change, and Docker, a container-based open source platform, is the mainstream for virtualization technology for cloud computing. Therefore, in this paper, research trends based on Docker containers were compared and analyzed, focusing on studies published from March 2013 to July 2022. As a result of the study, first, the number of papers published by year, domestic and foreign research were steadily increasing. Second, the keywords of the study, in domestic research, Docker, Docker Containers, and Containers were in the order, and in foreign research, Cloud Computing, Containers, and Edge Computing were in the order. Third, in the frequency of publishing institutions to estimate research trends, the utilization was the highest in two papers of the Korean Next Generation Computer Society and the Korean Computer Accounting Society. In the overseas research, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access, and Computer were in the order. Fourth, in the research method, experiments 78(26.3%) and surveys 32(10.8%) were conducted in domestic research. In foreign research, experiments 128(43.1%) and surveys 59(19.9%) were conducted. In the experiment of implementation research, In domestic research, System 25(8.4%), Algorithm 24(8.1%), Performance Measurement and Improvement 16(5.4%) were in the order, In foreign research, Algorithm 37(12.5%), Performance Measurement and Improvement 17(9.1%), followed by Framework 26(8.8%). Through this, it is expected that it will be used as basic data that can lead the research direction of Docker container-based cloud computing such as research methods, research topics, research fields, and technology development.