Sometimes it can be useful to have a docker image with just the bare essentials. Maybe you want to have a container with just enough to run your app or you are using something like data volume containers and want just enough to browse the filesystem. Either way you can create your own minimalist busybox image on Fedora with a pretty simple script. The script below was inspired a little from Marek Goldmann’s post about creating a minimal image for wildfly and a little from the busybox website .