diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c5ef89b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+.*
+*.md
+AGPL-3
+CC-BY-SA-4.0
+COPYING
+*file
+elixir_buildpack.config
+docs/
+test/
+
+# Required to get version
+!.git