Docker Hardened Images (DHI) went open source in December 2024, seven months after Docker launched them as a secure, minimal, production-ready image set in May 2025. The move makes hardened containers accessible to every developer, not just paying customers.
Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker, walks through what hardened actually means in practice: how these images are built, what attack surface gets removed, and why minimal matters more than convenient when you are shipping to production.
Read the full transcript or listen to the episode to get the technical specifics on the build pipeline, the catalog of available images, and what Docker's decision to open source this signals about where container security is heading.
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