diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 731c564..1ec92f3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ docker-build: build-server
 	perl -pi -e "s|image: [a-z0-9.:]+\/deis\/${SHORT_NAME}:[0-9a-z-.]+|image: ${IMAGE}|g" ${RC}
 	perl -pi -e "s|release: [a-zA-Z0-9.+_-]+|release: ${VERSION}|g" ${RC}
 
-docker-push: docker-build
+docker-push:
 	docker push ${IMAGE}
 
 deploy: build docker-build docker-push kube-rc
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ kube-mc-integration:
 
 # build the minio server
 build-server:
-	docker run -e GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 -e GOROOT=/usr/local/go --rm -v "${CURDIR}/server":/pwd -w /pwd golang:1.5.2 ./install.sh
+	# the PWD environment variable is a workaround to ensure that the 'checkdeps' build target works in the minio repo
+	docker run -e CGO_ENABLED=0 -e GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 -e GOPATH=/go -e GOROOT=/usr/local/go -v ${GOPATH}:/go -w /go/src/github.com/minio/minio -e PWD=/go/src/github.com/minio/minio golang:1.5.2 make
 
 mc-build:
 	make -C mc build
diff --git a/rootfs/Dockerfile b/rootfs/Dockerfile
index 4a2f239..e00c525 100644
--- a/rootfs/Dockerfile
+++ b/rootfs/Dockerfile
@@ -1,13 +1,7 @@
-FROM ubuntu-debootstrap:14.04
+FROM alpine:3.3
 
-ENV MINIOHOME /home/minio
-ENV MINIOUSER minio
 ENV DEIS_RELEASE=2.0.0-dev
-RUN useradd -m -d $MINIOHOME $MINIOUSER
-RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y -q ca-certificates curl
-RUN curl -f -SL https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/2015/Sept/linux-amd64/mc -o /usr/bin/mc
-RUN chmod 755 /usr/bin/mc
+RUN apk add -U ca-certificates
 COPY . /
-USER minio
-RUN mkdir /home/minio/.minio
+ENV DOCKERIMAGE=1
 CMD "boot"
diff --git a/server/install.sh b/server/install.sh
index a2ce2d2..2de05d5 100755
--- a/server/install.sh
+++ b/server/install.sh
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/minio
 cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/minio
 curl -L -O -s https://github.com/minio/minio/archive/master.tar.gz && tar -xvzf master.tar.gz && rm master.tar.gz && mv minio-master minio
 cd minio
-make install
+make
 cp $GOPATH/bin/minio /pwd/minio