# How Docker Hardened Images are built — Customized image pipeline

> When you customize a DHI image with DHI Select or DHI Enterprise, the build process is simplified Monitoring: Docker monitors your OCI artifact repositories for changes.

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When you customize a DHI image with DHI Select or DHI Enterprise, the build process is simplified

Monitoring: Docker monitors your OCI artifact repositories for changes. Rebuild trigger: When you push updates to your OCI artifacts, or when the base DHI image is updated, an automated rebuild starts. Fetch base image: The latest base DHI image is fetched. Apply customizations: Your OCI artifacts are applied to the base image. Scanning: The customized image is scanned for malware, secrets, and vulnerabilities. Signing and attestations: Docker signs the customized image and generates attestations (SBOMs, VEX documents, build provenance). Publishing: The signed customized image is published to Docker Hub and the attestations are published to the Docker Scout registry.

Docker handles the entire process automatically, so you don't need to manage builds for your customized images. However, you're responsible for testing your customized images and managing any CVEs introduced by your OCI artifacts.

The following diagram shows the customized image build flow

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```goatclasstext-sm
.-------------------.      .-------------------.      .-------------------.      .-------------------.
| Docker monitors   |-----&gt;| Trigger rebuild   |-----&gt;| Fetch base        |-----&gt;| Apply             |
| OCI artifacts     |      |                   |      | DHI image         |      | customizations    |
'-------------------'      '-------------------'      '-------------------'      '-------------------'
                                                                                           |
                                                                                           v
                           .-------------------.      .-------------------.      .-------------------.
                           | Publish to        |&lt;-----| Sign &amp; generate   |&lt;-----| Scanning          |
                           | Docker Hub        |      | attestations      |      |
```

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