diff --git a/alpine.dockerfile b/alpine.dockerfile
index 003c3a0834f..9773dc70e1b 100644
--- a/alpine.dockerfile
+++ b/alpine.dockerfile
@@ -25,49 +25,29 @@ LABEL maintainer="Microsoft" \
       org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli.git" \
       org.label-schema.docker.cmd="docker run -v \${HOME}/.azure:/root/.azure -it mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli:$CLI_VERSION"
 
-# bash gcc make openssl-dev libffi-dev musl-dev - dependencies required for CLI
-# openssh - included for ssh-keygen
-# ca-certificates
 
-# curl - required for installing jp
-# jq - we include jq as a useful tool
-# pip wheel - required for CLI packaging
-# jmespath-terminal - we include jpterm as a useful tool
-# libintl and icu-libs - required by azure devops artifact (az extension add --name azure-devops)
-
-# We don't use openssl (3.0) for now. We only install it so that users can use it.
-RUN apk add --no-cache bash openssh ca-certificates jq curl openssl perl git zip \
- && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps gcc make openssl-dev libffi-dev musl-dev linux-headers \
- && apk add --no-cache libintl icu-libs libc6-compat \
- && apk add --no-cache bash-completion \
- && update-ca-certificates
+# ca-certificates bash bash-completion jq jp openssh-keygen - for convenience
+# libintl icu-libs - required by azure-devops extension https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/pull/9683
+# libc6-compat - required by az storage blob sync https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/10381
+# gcc musl-dev linux-headers libffi-dev - temporarily required by psutil
+# curl - temporarily required by jp
 
 ARG JP_VERSION="0.2.1"
 
-RUN arch=$(arch | sed s/aarch64/arm64/ | sed s/x86_64/amd64/) && curl -L https://github.com/jmespath/jp/releases/download/${JP_VERSION}/jp-linux-$arch -o /usr/local/bin/jp \
- && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/jp
-
 WORKDIR azure-cli
 COPY . /azure-cli
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates bash bash-completion libintl icu-libs libc6-compat jq openssh-keygen \
+    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps gcc musl-dev linux-headers libffi-dev curl \
+    && update-ca-certificates && ./scripts/install_full.sh && python ./scripts/trim_sdk.py \
+    && cat /azure-cli/az.completion > ~/.bashrc \
+    && dos2unix /root/.bashrc /usr/local/bin/az \
+    && arch=$(arch | sed s/aarch64/arm64/ | sed s/x86_64/amd64/) && curl -L https://github.com/jmespath/jp/releases/download/${JP_VERSION}/jp-linux-$arch -o /usr/local/bin/jp \
+    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/jp \
+    && apk del .build-deps
 
-# 1. Build packages and store in tmp dir
-# 2. Install the cli and the other command modules that weren't included
-RUN ./scripts/install_full.sh && python ./scripts/trim_sdk.py \
- && cat /azure-cli/az.completion > ~/.bashrc \
- && runDeps="$( \
-    scanelf --needed --nobanner --recursive /usr/local \
-        | awk '{ gsub(/,/, "\nso:", $2); print "so:" $2 }' \
-        | sort -u \
-        | xargs -r apk info --installed \
-        | sort -u \
-    )" \
- && apk add --virtual .rundeps $runDeps
+RUN rm -rf /azure-cli
 
 WORKDIR /
 
-# Remove CLI source code from the final image and normalize line endings.
-RUN rm -rf ./azure-cli && \
-    dos2unix /root/.bashrc /usr/local/bin/az
-
 ENV AZ_INSTALLER=DOCKER
 CMD bash