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Hardening Dockerfiles with a Claude security pass
Have Claude review Dockerfiles for layer bloat, root users, and pinned-version hygiene.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2container security
- 3Dockerfile hygiene
- 4supply chain
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Section 1
The premise
Dockerfiles accumulate cruft; Claude is excellent at spotting the obvious foot-guns in a 60-line file.
What AI does well here
- Flag root user, latest tags, and missing healthchecks
- Suggest multi-stage builds to shrink final images
What AI cannot do
- Replace a real container scanner like Trivy
- Know your runtime's distro requirements
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