In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we’re joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker to learn all about it.

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1 00:00 Welcome to The Changelog 00:58
2 00:58 Sponsor: Tiger Data 02:34
3 03:31 Start the show! 01:23
4 04:54 What are hardened images? 02:09
5 07:04 From paid to free 02:58
6 10:01 SBOM and SLSA 03:27
7 13:29 Why switch to DHI? Why not? 02:07
8 15:36 The public reception 01:57
9 17:33 Announcing in Dec... 01:32
10 19:05 Changing defaults 02:37
11 21:42 Sponsor: Namespace 01:38
12 23:20 TTS (time-to-shipping) 05:21
13 28:41 VEX 05:02
14 33:43 A lot more to do 05:51
15 39:34 Perusing the DHI catalog 02:18
16 41:52 Scout health scores 03:20
17 45:12 The ecosystem 02:27
18 47:40 What partners get 01:41
19 49:21 A manifesto 04:29
20 53:49 Sponsor: NordLayer 01:43
21 55:33 What's next? 02:44
22 58:17 Start green, stay green 01:49
23 1:00:06 Docker for AI 11:53
24 1:11:59 The future 03:00
25 1:14:58 Wrapping up 00:14
26 1:15:13 Closing thoughts (join ++!) 01:35

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