Use a Docker Hardened Image — Discover attestations with ORAS
You can use ORAS to discover and inspect the attestations attached to Docker Hardened Images.
Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions).
You can use ORAS to discover and inspect the attestations attached to Docker Hardened Images. This is particularly useful in CI/CD pipelines for supply chain security validation and compliance checks.
For automated workflows, authenticate using an organization access token (OAT). OATs are owned by the organization rather than an individual user, making them better suited for CI/CD pipelines.
To discover attestations with ORAS
Generate an organization access token with Read public repositories scope.
The following example shows how to discover attestations on DHI community images from dhi.io. If you're discovering attestations on images mirrored to your organization, generate an OAT scoped to read from your mirrored repository instead of Read public repositories.
Sign in to dhi.io using your organization name as the username and the OAT as the password.
> [!WARNING] > > The following examples export credentials directly on the command line for > demonstration purposes. This exposes sensitive tokens in your shell history > and process list. In production environments, use secure methods such as > reading from files with restricted permissions, environment files loaded > at runtime, or secret management tools.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ oras login dhi.io -u <YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME>
```
Or non-interactively in a CI/CD pipeline, set your organization name and token
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ export DOCKER_ORG="YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME"
$ export OAT="YOUR_ORGANIZATION_ACCESS_TOKEN"
$ echo $OAT | oras login dhi.io -u "$DOCKER_ORG" --password-stdin
```
Discover attestations on a DHI image
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ oras discover dhi.io/node:24-dev --platform linux/amd64
```
> [!NOTE] > > The --platform flag is required. Without it, oras discover resolves to > the multi-arch image index, which returns only an index-level signature > rather than the full set of per-platform attestations.
A successful response lists the attestations attached to the image, including SBOMs, provenance, vulnerability reports, and changelog metadata.
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