diff --git a/deployments/container/Dockerfile.ubi8 b/deployments/container/Dockerfile.ubi8
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+# Copyright 2024 NVIDIA CORPORATION
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# We use the ubi8-minimal image as a reference image in removing unneeded dependencies.
+FROM redhat/ubi8-minimal:latest AS minimal
+
+RUN rpm -qa --queryformat='^%{NAME}-\[0-9\].*\.%{ARCH}$\n' | sort -u > /tmp/minimal-list.txt
+RUN rpm -qa | sort -u > /tmp/minimal-list.versions
+
+# We define the following image as a base image and remove unneeded packages.
+FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda:12.5.0-base-ubi8 AS base
+
+WORKDIR /cleanup
+
+COPY --from=minimal /tmp/minimal-list.txt minimal-list.txt
+COPY --from=minimal /tmp/minimal-list.versions minimal-list.versions
+COPY deployments/container/cleanup/* .
+
+RUN ./cleanup.sh
+
+WORKDIR /
diff --git a/deployments/container/cleanup/cleanup.sh b/deployments/container/cleanup/cleanup.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2024 NVIDIA CORPORATION
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express orimplied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+echo "install_weak_deps=False" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
+rm -f /etc/dnf/protected.d/*.conf
+
+rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/cuda.repo
+rm -f /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia.conf
+
+dnf remove -y \
+    cuda* \
+    systemd
+
+dnf clean all
+rm -rf /var/cache/dnf
+
+dnf install -y microdnf
+
+microdnf remove $(rpm -q --whatrequires dnf)
+rpm -e dnf
+
+microdnf remove \
+    $(rpm -q --whatrequires /usr/libexec/platform-python) \
+    $(rpm -q --whatrequires 'python(abi)') \
+    python* \
+    dnf*
+
+microdnf remove \
+    $(rpm -qa | sort | grep -v -f minimal-list.txt -e gpg-pubkey)
+
+microdnf update
+
+rpm -qa | sort -u > package-list.versions
+
+microdnf clean all
+rm -rf /var/cache/dnf