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Docker Hardened Images now free for all developers
- Platform/SRE — Plan: Docker removing the cost barrier for hardened, minimal base images makes it practical to standardize on them across cluster workloads, reducing CVE surface without budget justification. Evaluate adopting Docker Hardened Images as the default base-image standard in your next quarterly planning cycle.
- CI/CD — Plan: Hardened base images are directly relevant to build-time and artifact supply-chain security; with the free tier now available, it’s worth scheduling a migration of pipeline build images and application Dockerfiles to hardened variants as a supply-chain hardening step.
- Leader — Learn: Docker making a previously premium security feature free reshapes the container security tooling landscape and is useful context for evaluating whether to formalize a hardened-image standard in the golden path, but no immediate strategic decision is required.
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