diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 5eac5065..9d64904f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
-FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9-development
-
 ARG USER_ID=${USER_ID:-1001}
 ARG APP_DIR=${APP_DIR:-/app}
+
+FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 as build
+
+ARG USER_ID
+ARG APP_DIR
 ARG DEVEL_COLLECTION_LIBRARY=0
 ARG DEVEL_COLLECTION_REPO=git+https://github.com/ansible/event-driven-ansible.git
 
-USER 0
-RUN useradd -u $USER_ID -d $APP_DIR appuser
-WORKDIR $APP_DIR
-COPY . $WORKDIR
-RUN chown -R $USER_ID $APP_DIR
-RUN dnf install -y java-17-openjdk-devel python3-pip
-
-USER $USER_ID
+RUN dnf install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=0 --setopt=tsflags=nodocs \
+    java-17-openjdk-devel java-17-openjdk-jmods binutils python3-pip
 ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk
-ENV PATH="${PATH}:$APP_DIR/.local/bin"
-RUN pip install -U pip \
-    && pip install ansible-core \
+
+RUN pip install -U pip virtualenv \
+    && virtualenv --always-copy $APP_DIR/venv
+ENV PATH="$APP_DIR/venv/bin:${PATH}"
+
+RUN pip install ansible-core \
     ansible-runner \
     jmespath \
     asyncio \
@@ -29,6 +29,43 @@ RUN pip install -U pip \
 RUN bash -c "if [ $DEVEL_COLLECTION_LIBRARY -ne 0 ]; then \
     ansible-galaxy collection install ${DEVEL_COLLECTION_REPO} --force; fi"
 
+WORKDIR $APP_DIR
+COPY . $APP_DIR
+
 RUN pip install .
 
-RUN chmod -R 0775 $APP_DIR
+RUN $JAVA_HOME/bin/jdeps \
+    --ignore-missing-deps \
+    --print-module-deps \
+    --multi-release 17 \
+    --recursive \
+    $(find $APP_DIR -path '*/drools/jars/*' -name 'drools*.jar') > $APP_DIR/drools_jar_modules \
+    && $JAVA_HOME/bin/jlink \
+    --add-modules $(cat $APP_DIR/drools_jar_modules) \
+    --strip-debug \
+    --no-man-pages \
+    --no-header-files \
+    --compress=2 \
+    --output $APP_DIR/custom_jre
+
+FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9-minimal as dist
+
+ARG USER_ID
+ARG APP_DIR
+
+ENV PATH="$APP_DIR/venv/bin:${PATH}"
+ENV JAVA_HOME=/jre
+
+COPY --from=build $APP_DIR/custom_jre $JAVA_HOME
+COPY --from=build $APP_DIR/venv $APP_DIR/venv
+COPY . $APP_DIR
+
+RUN microdnf install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=0 --setopt=tsflags=nodocs \
+    shadow-utils python3-libs \
+    && useradd -u $USER_ID -d $APP_DIR appuser \
+    && chown -R $USER_ID $APP_DIR \
+    && chmod -R 0775 $APP_DIR \
+    && microdnf clean all
+
+WORKDIR $APP_DIR
+USER $USER_ID