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This month, we spotlight AI security incidents from the MCP Horror Stories series and share hands-on resources to help you build and run AI agents with Docker. You’ll also find new AI Guide to the Galaxy episodes, Docker Desktop updates, community highlights, and upcoming events and webinars.
MCP Horror Stories — The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist
The MCP Horror Stories series highlights real-world AI security incidents and how the Docker MCP Toolkit protects against them. The latest post covers attackers exploiting GitHub issues to hijack AI assistants and how Docker’s OAuth safeguards stop cross-repository theft.
New to the series? Catch up on:
Docker @ Black Hat 2025: CVEs have everyone’s attention, here’s the path forward
At Black Hat 2025, CVEs dominated the conversation. See how Docker Hardened Images, proven security patterns, and AI-ready foundations help teams eliminate security debt, enforce compliance, and build trust from code to production.
Docker News
Docker Desktop Accelerates Innovation with Faster Release Cadence
Starting with Docker Desktop 4.45.0, updates ship every two weeks — delivering faster features, fixes, and security while keeping enterprise control.
Docker Model Runner is going GA with the Desktop 4.45 release
Docker Model Runner is now generally available with Desktop 4.45. Learn how to manage and run AI models — or update to 4.45 to get started.
Dive Deep
AI Guide to the Galaxy: How Docker Powers AI Development
Docker’s latest video series, hosted by Oleg Šelajev, Staff Community Success Manager at Docker, features conversations with Docker Principal Engineers on how to build and run AI applications — from local LLMs to secure, production-grade agents.
- Episode 3: From Chatbots to Agents with Docker’s MCP Toolkit & Gateway – How to turn simple chatbots into secure AI agents.
- Episode 2: Running local LLMs with Docker Model Runner – Experiment with and run large language models locally.
Prototyping an AI Tutor with Docker Model Runner
Get inspired to build an AI tutor with this proof of concept project designed to reduce context-switching and improve the dev experience with Model Runner.
Building AI Agents with Docker
Developers are exploring new ways to build AI agents with Docker’s AI tools. These guides highlight different approaches, from real-world setups to lightweight local builds, offering practical paths to getting started.
- Building AI Agents with Docker MCP Toolkit: A Developer’s Real-World Setup — Run a GitHub Q&A agent with MCP Toolkit and use Compose to orchestrate services, keep tooling decoupled, and scale from local to CI/CD.
- Building AI Agents Made Easy with Goose and Docker — Learn how to quickly build an AI agent with Goose and Docker Model Runner.
Around the Community
Connect with Docker communities, online and in person, to learn, share, and stay up to date with the latest in containerization. Visit the Community Hub to explore forums, local meetups, events, and more. Happening this month:
- Image pull from mcr.microsoft.com fails with EOF — Our most-discussed thread digs into an EOF error when pulling images from Microsoft, which was confirmed as a known issue and reported with help from the community.
- How Docker enables security by default and makes developers work better — Learn how Docker streamlines container security without slowing developers. Build compliant, secure apps with a great developer experience.
On the Calendar
Meet our Product and Engineering teams at leading tech conferences worldwide, where they share expertise, explore Docker’s latest advancements, and collaborate with the global tech community to shape the future of innovation.
- AI Engineer Paris — Paris, France — Sept 23–24
Join us to see how Docker makes it simple to build, secure, and scale AI agents. - Open Source SecurityCon — Atlanta, GA US — November 10
Visit the Docker booth to learn how we are simplifying and strengthening container security and securing the software supply chain. - AWS re:Invent — Las Vegas, NV US — December 1-5
Discover Docker AI at Booth #1819 with demos, insights, and a sneak peek at what’s next (hint: big announcement coming!)
Can’t make it to a local event? Join us online!
If you couldn’t join our recent live webinar, Secure MCP Deployments at Scale, don’t worry — the on-demand recording is coming soon. In the meantime, catch up on other past sessions in the library at your convenience.
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