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title: Customization overview
description: This section covers how developers build custom Docker images for the Ping Identity Platform. It also contains important conceptual material that you need to understand before you start creating Docker images.
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# Customization overview

This section covers how developers build custom Docker images for the Ping Identity Platform. It also contains important conceptual material that you need to understand before you start creating Docker images.

* Configuration container

  In ForgeOps release 2026.1, AM and IDM configuration profiles have been moved out of the PingAM and PingIDM images into dedicated [BusyBox](# "A BusyBox container is a minimal, lightweight containerized environment that includes a compact implementation of common UNIX utilities.") containers. You can now customize the configuration profiles and rebuild only the configuration [BusyBox](# "A BusyBox container is a minimal, lightweight containerized environment that includes a compact implementation of common UNIX utilities.") images.

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|   | It is highly recommended to deploy the latest platform images in a production environment only after due customization and testing. |

## Developer checklist

Setup:

* [icon: square-o, set=fa]*[Perform additional setup](setup.html)*

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Understand custom images](custom-images.html)

DS customization:

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Customize the DS image](ds.html)

AM and IDM customization:

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Understand AM and IDM configuration](fr-data.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Understand property value substitution](value-substitution.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Customize the AM image](am.html)

* [icon: square-o, set=fa][Customize the IDM image](idm.html)