Docker joins the Athena Coalition to harden software supply chains

Docker just joined the Athena Coalition, a cross-industry group working on supply chain security for software. The coalition is focused on making sure the tools and dependencies we pull into our builds actually come from trusted sources.

Supply chain security has become a real headache. When a package gets compromised, it doesn't just affect one project — it ripples through everything that depends on it. The Athena Coalition is trying to tackle this at the infrastructure level by getting the people who actually build and ship software to agree on standards and share threat data.

Why this matters for us: if supply chain attacks keep eating into our tools and dependencies, everything from our CI pipelines to our production deployments can go sideways, and the people who actually build and ship software are the ones who'll pay the price.