Hardened Images Are Free. Now What?

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by Jin Kim

February 10, 2026

Docker Hardened Images are now free, covering Alpine, Debian, and over 1,000 images including databases, runtimes, and message buses. For security teams, this changes the economics of container vulnerability management. DHI includes security fixes from Docker’s security team, which simplifies security response. Platform teams can pull the patched base image and redeploy quickly. But free...

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Originally published on Docker Blog on 2/10/2026