diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 287549bd..2aba5953 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-FROM alpine
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/static:latest
 LABEL maintainers="Kubernetes Authors"
 LABEL description="NFS subdir external provisioner"
 ARG binary=./bin/nfs-subdir-external-provisioner
 
-RUN apk update --no-cache && apk add ca-certificates
 COPY ${binary} /nfs-subdir-external-provisioner
 ENTRYPOINT ["/nfs-subdir-external-provisioner"]