diff --git a/ucore/Containerfile b/ucore/Containerfile
index 7f6f877..18ffab6 100644
--- a/ucore/Containerfile
+++ b/ucore/Containerfile
@@ -22,15 +22,9 @@ ARG COREOS_VERSION="${COREOS_VERSION:-stable}"
 # build with --build-arg NVIDA_TAG="-nvidia" to install nvidia
 ARG NVIDIA_TAG="${NVIDIA_TAG}"
 
-# these versions match docker/moby 27.5.1 which FCOS ships as of 42.20250410
-ARG DOCKER_BUILDX_VERSION=0.20.0
-ARG DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION=v2.32.2
-
 COPY system_files/etc /etc
 COPY system_files/usr/lib /usr/lib/
 COPY system_files/usr/sbin /usr/sbin/
-COPY --from=docker.io/docker/buildx-bin:${DOCKER_BUILDX_VERSION} /buildx /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
-COPY --from=docker.io/docker/compose-bin:${DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION} /docker-compose /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
 
 RUN --mount=type=cache,dst=/var/cache/libdnf5 \
     --mount=type=cache,dst=/var/cache/rpm-ostree \
diff --git a/ucore/packages.json b/ucore/packages.json
index 1aa1385..a5a36d9 100644
--- a/ucore/packages.json
+++ b/ucore/packages.json
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
                 "cockpit-podman",
                 "cockpit-selinux",
                 "cockpit-system",
+                "docker-buildx",
+                "docker-compose",
                 "firewalld",
                 "fwupd-efi",
                 "intel-compute-runtime",