You can use the "dockerception" method: build in a container with devtools, then import the resulting binaries into a container with no devtools. https://github

You can use the "dockerception" method: build in a container with devtools, then import the resulting binaries into a container with no devtools. https://github.com/jamiemccrindle/dockerception https://github.com/jamiemccrindle/dockerception The resulting images can be very small: https://hub.docker.com/r/jjclark/nethack/tags/ https://hub.docker.com/r/jjclark/nethack/tags/ It's currently a little difficult because of a bug with building from a tarball: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15785 https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15785