diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 777e4a8..bfef6e3 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
-ARG ALPINE_VERSION=3.16.2
+ARG DEBIAN_VERSION=11.4-slim
 ARG POCO_VERSION=poco-tip-v1
 ARG FMTLIB_VERSION=9.0.0
 ARG CPPKAFKA_VERSION=tip-v1
 ARG JSON_VALIDATOR_VERSION=2.1.0
 ARG AWS_SDK_VERSION=1.9.315
 
-FROM alpine:$ALPINE_VERSION AS build-base
+FROM debian:$DEBIAN_VERSION AS build-base
 
-RUN apk add --update --no-cache \
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
     make cmake g++ git \
-    unixodbc-dev postgresql-dev mariadb-dev \
-    librdkafka-dev boost-dev openssl-dev \
-    zlib-dev nlohmann-json \
-    curl-dev
+    unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libmariadb-dev libmariadbclient-dev-compat \
+    librdkafka-dev libboost-all-dev libssl-dev \
+    zlib1g-dev nlohmann-json3-dev ca-certificates libcurl4-openssl-dev
 
 FROM build-base AS poco-build
 
@@ -113,21 +112,21 @@ RUN cmake .. \
           -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
 RUN cmake --build . --config Release -j8
 
-FROM alpine:$ALPINE_VERSION
+FROM debian:$DEBIAN_VERSION
 
 ENV OWFMS_USER=owfms \
     OWFMS_ROOT=/owfms-data \
     OWFMS_CONFIG=/owfms-data
 
-RUN addgroup -S "$OWFMS_USER" && \
-    adduser -S -G "$OWFMS_USER" "$OWFMS_USER"
+RUN useradd "$OWFMS_USER"
 
 RUN mkdir /openwifi
 RUN mkdir -p "$OWFMS_ROOT" "$OWFMS_CONFIG" && \
     chown "$OWFMS_USER": "$OWFMS_ROOT" "$OWFMS_CONFIG"
 
-RUN apk add --update --no-cache librdkafka su-exec gettext ca-certificates bash jq curl \
-    mariadb-connector-c libpq unixodbc postgresql-client
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
+    librdkafka++1 gosu gettext ca-certificates bash jq curl wget \
+    libmariadb-dev-compat libpq5 unixodbc
 
 COPY readiness_check /readiness_check
 COPY test_scripts/curl/cli /cli
diff --git a/docker-entrypoint.sh b/docker-entrypoint.sh
index aa28dd3..a24508d 100755
--- a/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
 if [ "$SELFSIGNED_CERTS" = 'true' ]; then
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if [ "$1" = '/openwifi/owfms' -a "$(id -u)" = '0' ]; then
     if [ "$RUN_CHOWN" = 'true' ]; then
       chown -R "$OWFMS_USER": "$OWFMS_ROOT" "$OWFMS_CONFIG"
     fi
-    exec su-exec "$OWFMS_USER" "$@"
+    exec gosu "$OWFMS_USER" "$@"
 fi
 
 exec "$@"
diff --git a/wait-for-postgres.sh b/wait-for-postgres.sh
index 288d616..59ed58c 100755
--- a/wait-for-postgres.sh
+++ b/wait-for-postgres.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 # wait-for-postgres.sh
 
 set -e
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ if [ "$1" = '/openwifi/owfms' -a "$(id -u)" = '0' ]; then
     if [ "$RUN_CHOWN" = 'true' ]; then
       chown -R "$OWFMS_USER": "$OWFMS_ROOT" "$OWFMS_CONFIG"
     fi
-    exec su-exec "$OWFMS_USER" "$@"
+    exec gosu "$OWFMS_USER" "$@"
 fi
 
 exec "$@"