diff --git a/build/ci/Dockerfile.builder b/build/ci/Dockerfile.builder
deleted file mode 100644
index 0acc2b3..0000000
--- a/build/ci/Dockerfile.builder
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2018-present Open Networking Foundation
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# this container is used to provide a build environment so that we don't need
-# the prereqs installed on a CI machine
-
-FROM golang:1.12-stretch
-
-# install prereqs
-ENV PROTOC_VERSION 3.6.1
-ENV PROTOC_SHA256SUM 6003de742ea3fcf703cfec1cd4a3380fd143081a2eb0e559065563496af27807
-
-RUN apt-get update \
- && apt-get install -y unzip libpcap-dev \
- && curl -L -o /tmp/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v${PROTOC_VERSION}/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip \
- && echo "$PROTOC_SHA256SUM  /tmp/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip" | sha256sum -c - \
- && unzip /tmp/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip -d /tmp/protoc3 \
- && mv /tmp/protoc3/bin/* /usr/local/bin/ \
- && mv /tmp/protoc3/include/* /usr/local/include/ \
- && go get -v github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway \
- && go get -v github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build/ci/builder.Dockerfile b/build/ci/builder.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94ab871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/ci/builder.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Copyright 2020-present Open Networking Foundation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+FROM golang:1.13.8-stretch
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential libpcap-dev && \
+    mkdir -m 777 /.cache /go/pkg
+
+ENV CGO_ENABLED=1
+
+WORKDIR /app
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build/ci/linter.Dockerfile b/build/ci/linter.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc3274a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/ci/linter.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright 2020-present Open Networking Foundation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+ARG VOLTHA_TOOLS_VERSION
+FROM voltha/voltha-ci-tools:${VOLTHA_TOOLS_VERSION}-golangci-lint
+
+# install repo-specific C dependencies
+RUN apk add --no-cache build-base libpcap-dev
diff --git a/build/package/Dockerfile b/build/package/Dockerfile
index d5caae0..2fa4633 100644
--- a/build/package/Dockerfile
+++ b/build/package/Dockerfile
@@ -15,35 +15,32 @@
 # bbsim dockerfile
 
 # builder parent
-FROM golang:1.12-stretch as builder
+FROM golang:1.13.8-stretch as builder
 
-# install prereqs
-ENV PROTOC_VERSION 3.7.0
-ENV PROTOC_SHA256SUM a1b8ed22d6dc53c5b8680a6f1760a305b33ef471bece482e92728f00ba2a2969
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential libpcap-dev
 
-RUN apt-get update \
- && apt-get install -y unzip libpcap-dev \
- && curl -L -o /tmp/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v${PROTOC_VERSION}/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip \
- && echo "$PROTOC_SHA256SUM  /tmp/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip" | sha256sum -c - \
- && unzip /tmp/protoc-${PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip -d /tmp/protoc3 \
- && mv /tmp/protoc3/bin/* /usr/local/bin/ \
- && mv /tmp/protoc3/include/* /usr/local/include/ \
- && go get -v github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway \
- && go get -v github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-swagger \
- && go get -v github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
+ENV CGO_ENABLED=1
 
-WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/opencord/bbsim
-ENV GO111MODULE=on
-ENV GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org
+WORKDIR /app
 
 # copy and build
 COPY . ./
-RUN make protos
-RUN make build-bbsim
-RUN make build-bbsimctl
+
+RUN go build -mod vendor \
+      -ldflags "-w -X main.buildTime=$(date +%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S) \
+        -X main.commitHash=$(git log --pretty=format:%H -n 1) \
+        -X main.gitStatus=${GIT_STATUS} \
+        -X main.version=${VERSION}" \
+      ./cmd/bbsim && \
+    go build -mod vendor \
+      -ldflags "-w -X github.com/opencord/bbsim/internal/bbsimctl/config.BuildTime=$(date +%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S) \
+        -X github.com/opencord/bbsim/internal/bbsimctl/config.CommitHash=$(git log --pretty=format:%H -n 1) \
+        -X github.com/opencord/bbsim/internal/bbsimctl/config.GitStatus=${GIT_STATUS} \
+        -X github.com/opencord/bbsim/internal/bbsimctl/config.Version=${VERSION}" \
+      ./cmd/bbsimctl
 
 # runtime parent
-FROM golang:1.12-stretch
+FROM ubuntu:18.04
 
 # runtime prereqs
 # the symlink on libpcap is because both alpine and debian come with 1.8.x, but
@@ -51,7 +48,7 @@
 # https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libpcap0.8-dev
 RUN apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y libpcap-dev isc-dhcp-server network-manager tcpdump\
- && ln -s /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.8.1 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.8
+ && ln -s /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.8.1 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9
 
 COPY ./configs/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp/
 RUN mv /usr/sbin/dhcpd /usr/local/bin/ \
@@ -59,8 +56,8 @@
 && touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases
 
 WORKDIR /app
-COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/opencord/bbsim/bbsim /app/bbsim
-COPY --from=builder /go/src/github.com/opencord/bbsim/bbsimctl /usr/bin/bbsimctl
+COPY --from=builder /app/bbsim /app/bbsim
+COPY --from=builder /app/bbsimctl /usr/bin/bbsimctl
 RUN mv /usr/sbin/tcpdump /usr/bin/tcpdump
 RUN chmod a+x /app/bbsim
 RUN chmod a+x /usr/bin/bbsimctl