diff --git a/example_sp/django.Dockerfile b/example_sp/django.Dockerfile
index cc4581e4..a296617a 100644
--- a/example_sp/django.Dockerfile
+++ b/example_sp/django.Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.19.1
+FROM alpine:3.18
  
 RUN apk update
 RUN apk add --update --no-cache tzdata
@@ -9,14 +9,11 @@ RUN apk del tzdata
 COPY example_sp/djangosaml2_sp/requirements.txt /
 COPY example_sp/entrypoint.sh /
 
-RUN apk add --update xmlsec-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev python3 py3-pip python3-dev procps git openssl build-base gcc wget bash jq yq 
-
-RUN adduser -D -g '' django
-
-USER django
-
 WORKDIR /djangosaml2_sp
 
-RUN python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools \ 
-    && pip3 install -r ../requirements.txt --ignore-installed
+RUN apk add --update xmlsec-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev python3 py3-pip python3-dev procps git openssl build-base gcc wget bash jq yq \
+&& pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools --root-user-action=ignore
+
+RUN pip list
 
+RUN pip3 install -r ../requirements.txt --ignore-installed --root-user-action=ignore
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diff --git a/example_sp/entrypoint.sh b/example_sp/entrypoint.sh
index 2caf5ef6..9cd44e1c 100644
--- a/example_sp/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/example_sp/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-. /djangosaml2_sp/.venv/bin/activate
 python -B manage.py migrate
 python -B manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
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