diff --git a/builder/builder.go b/builder/builder.go
index caff35aead..06b151911a 100644
--- a/builder/builder.go
+++ b/builder/builder.go
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/docker/docker/api/types"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/daemon"
-	"github.com/docker/docker/image"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/runconfig"
 )
 
@@ -112,9 +111,9 @@ type Backend interface {
 	// TODO: use digest reference instead of name
 
 	// GetImage looks up a Docker image referenced by `name`.
-	GetImage(name string) (*image.Image, error)
+	GetImage(name string) (Image, error)
 	// Pull tells Docker to pull image referenced by `name`.
-	Pull(name string) (*image.Image, error)
+	Pull(name string) (Image, error)
 	// ContainerWsAttachWithLogs attaches to container.
 	ContainerWsAttachWithLogs(name string, cfg *daemon.ContainerWsAttachWithLogsConfig) error
 	// ContainerCreate creates a new Docker container and returns potential warnings
diff --git a/builder/dockerfile/dispatchers.go b/builder/dockerfile/dispatchers.go
index 97f50bb4e9..693bd8684c 100644
--- a/builder/dockerfile/dispatchers.go
+++ b/builder/dockerfile/dispatchers.go
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
+	"github.com/docker/docker/builder"
 	derr "github.com/docker/docker/errors"
-	"github.com/docker/docker/image"
 	flag "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/mflag"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/nat"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/signal"
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ func from(b *Builder, args []string, attributes map[string]bool, original string
 	}
 
 	var (
-		image *image.Image
+		image builder.Image
 		err   error
 	)
 	// TODO: don't use `name`, instead resolve it to a digest
diff --git a/builder/dockerfile/internals.go b/builder/dockerfile/internals.go
index 0d87c12b04..1f82879244 100644
--- a/builder/dockerfile/internals.go
+++ b/builder/dockerfile/internals.go
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/docker/docker/builder"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/builder/dockerfile/parser"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/daemon"
-	"github.com/docker/docker/image"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/archive"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/httputils"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/ioutils"
@@ -403,11 +402,11 @@ func containsWildcards(name string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-func (b *Builder) processImageFrom(img *image.Image) error {
-	b.image = img.ID().String()
+func (b *Builder) processImageFrom(img builder.Image) error {
+	b.image = img.ID()
 
 	if img.Config != nil {
-		b.runConfig = img.Config
+		b.runConfig = img.Config()
 	}
 
 	// The default path will be blank on Windows (set by HCS)
diff --git a/builder/image.go b/builder/image.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c8d5fc15d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/builder/image.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package builder
+
+import "github.com/docker/docker/runconfig"
+
+// Image represents a Docker image used by the builder.
+type Image interface {
+	ID() string
+	Config() *runconfig.Config
+}
diff --git a/daemon/daemonbuilder/builder.go b/daemon/daemonbuilder/builder.go
index 6da9896301..d50cd7255e 100644
--- a/daemon/daemonbuilder/builder.go
+++ b/daemon/daemonbuilder/builder.go
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ type Docker struct {
 var _ builder.Backend = Docker{}
 
 // Pull tells Docker to pull image referenced by `name`.
-func (d Docker) Pull(name string) (*image.Image, error) {
+func (d Docker) Pull(name string) (builder.Image, error) {
 	ref, err := reference.ParseNamed(name)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -69,8 +69,16 @@ func (d Docker) Pull(name string) (*image.Image, error) {
 	if err := d.Daemon.PullImage(ref, nil, pullRegistryAuth, ioutils.NopWriteCloser(d.OutOld)); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	return d.GetImage(name)
+}
 
-	return d.Daemon.GetImage(name)
+// GetImage looks up a Docker image referenced by `name`.
+func (d Docker) GetImage(name string) (builder.Image, error) {
+	img, err := d.Daemon.GetImage(name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return imgWrap{img}, nil
 }
 
 // ContainerUpdateCmd updates Path and Args for the container with ID cID.
@@ -84,18 +92,6 @@ func (d Docker) ContainerUpdateCmd(cID string, cmd []string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Retain retains an image avoiding it to be removed or overwritten until a corresponding Release() call.
-func (d Docker) Retain(sessionID, imgID string) {
-	// FIXME: This will be solved with tags in client-side builder
-	//d.Daemon.Graph().Retain(sessionID, imgID)
-}
-
-// Release releases a list of images that were retained for the time of a build.
-func (d Docker) Release(sessionID string, activeImages []string) {
-	// FIXME: This will be solved with tags in client-side builder
-	//d.Daemon.Graph().Release(sessionID, activeImages...)
-}
-
 // BuilderCopy copies/extracts a source FileInfo to a destination path inside a container
 // specified by a container object.
 // TODO: make sure callers don't unnecessarily convert destPath with filepath.FromSlash (Copy does it already).
diff --git a/daemon/daemonbuilder/image.go b/daemon/daemonbuilder/image.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab5ab9a322
--- /dev/null
+++ b/daemon/daemonbuilder/image.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package daemonbuilder
+
+import (
+	"github.com/docker/docker/image"
+	"github.com/docker/docker/runconfig"
+)
+
+type imgWrap struct {
+	inner *image.Image
+}
+
+func (img imgWrap) ID() string {
+	return string(img.inner.ID())
+}
+
+func (img imgWrap) Config() *runconfig.Config {
+	return img.inner.Config
+}