# Get started with DHI Select and Enterprise — Step 3: Customize the image

> One of the key benefits of DHI Select and Enterprise is the ability to customize your mirrored images.

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One of the key benefits of DHI Select and Enterprise is the ability to customize your mirrored images. You can add system packages, configure settings, or make other modifications to meet your organization's specific requirements.

This example shows how to add the curl system package to your mirrored Python image.

Go to your organization namespace on Docker Hub. Navigate to your mirrored repository (for example, dhi-python). Select Customizations. Select Create customization. Search for 3-alpine3.23 and select any one of the images. In Add packages, select curl. Select Next: Configure. In Customization name, enter a name for your customization (for example, curl). Select Next: Review customization. Select Create customization to start the build.

It can take a few minutes for the customization to build. Go to the Customizations tab of your mirrored repository and view the Last build column to monitor the build status.

To use the following commands, you must authenticate or configure DHI CLI authentication using your Docker token. For details, see Use the DHI CLI.

Create a customization. Replace with your organization name. This creates a file called my-customization.yaml with the customization details.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ docker dhi customization prepare --org &lt;your-org&gt; python 3-alpine3.23 \
       --destination &lt;your-org&gt;/dhi-python \
       --name "python with curl" \
       &gt; my-customization.yaml
```

Add the curl package to the customization. You can edit the file with any text or code editor. The following commands use echo to add the necessary lines to the YAML file

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ echo "contents:" &gt;&gt; my-customization.yaml
   $ echo "  packages:" &gt;&gt; my-customization.yaml
   $ echo "    - curl" &gt;&gt; my-customization.yaml
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ docker dhi customization create --org &lt;your-org&gt; my-customization.yaml
```

Verify the customization was created

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ docker dhi customization list --org &lt;your-org&gt;
```

It can take a few minutes for the customization to build. To check the build status …

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