diff --git a/salt-master/Dockerfile b/salt-master/Dockerfile
index 37eab00..ab51744 100644
--- a/salt-master/Dockerfile
+++ b/salt-master/Dockerfile
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ FROM debian:jessie
 MAINTAINER kev <noreply@datageek.info>
 
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y curl \
+    && apt-get install -y curl jq vim-tiny \
     && curl -sSL https://bootstrap.saltstack.com | bash -s -- -M -N -S -X \
     && apt-get install -y salt-ssh \
+    && curl -sSL https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python \
+    && pip install httpie ipython \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 VOLUME /etc/salt /srv/salt
diff --git a/salt-master/README.md b/salt-master/README.md
index 44fb5b0..8172a73 100644
--- a/salt-master/README.md
+++ b/salt-master/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ enough to communicate with them in seconds.
 Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used
 for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more.
 
+This image contains `salt-master`/`salt-ssh` and other power tools:
+
+- curl
+- httpie
+- ipython
+- jq
+- vim-tiny
+
 ## network topology
 
 - master