diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 809d4033b..1be570e96 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,16 +3,13 @@ KUBERNETES_VERSION ?= 1.10.3
 
 DATE ?= $(shell date +%Y-%m-%d)
 
-# Defaults to Amazon Linux 2 LTS AMI
-# * use the us-west-2 minimal hvm image
-# https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/
 SOURCE_AMI_ID ?= $(shell aws ec2 describe-images \
 	--output text \
 	--filters \
-		Name=owner-id,Values=137112412989 \
+		Name=owner-id,Values=099720109477 \
 		Name=virtualization-type,Values=hvm \
 		Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs \
-		Name=name,Values=amzn2-ami-minimal-hvm-* \
+		Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-* \
 		Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 \
 		Name=state,Values=available \
 	--query 'max_by(Images[], &CreationDate).ImageId')
@@ -24,7 +21,7 @@ AWS_DEFAULT_REGION = us-west-2
 all: ami
 
 validate:
-	packer validate eks-worker-al2.json
+	packer validate eks-worker-bionic.json
 
 ami: validate
-	packer build -color=false -var build_tag=$(BUILD_TAG) -var source_ami_id=$(SOURCE_AMI_ID) eks-worker-al2.json
+	packer build -color=false -var build_tag=$(BUILD_TAG) -var source_ami_id=$(SOURCE_AMI_ID) eks-worker-bionic.json
diff --git a/eks-worker-al2.json b/eks-worker-bionic.json
similarity index 80%
rename from eks-worker-al2.json
rename to eks-worker-bionic.json
index 7393164d9..f2b623b2b 100644
--- a/eks-worker-al2.json
+++ b/eks-worker-bionic.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "variables": {
     "aws_region": "us-west-2",
     "build_tag": "",
-    "ami_name": "amazon-eks-node",
+    "ami_name": "bionic-eks-node",
     "binary_bucket_name": "amazon-eks",
     "binary_bucket_region": "us-west-2",
     "binary_bucket_path": "1.10.3/2018-07-26/bin/linux/amd64",
@@ -21,26 +21,18 @@
       "source_ami_filter": {
         "filters": {
           "architecture": "x86_64",
-          "name": "amzn2-ami-minimal-hvm-*",
+          "name": "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-*",
           "root-device-type": "ebs",
           "state": "available",
           "virtualization-type": "hvm"
         },
-        "owners": [ "137112412989" ],
+        "owners": [ "099720109477" ],
         "most_recent": true
       },
       "instance_type": "{{user `instance_type`}}",
       "spot_price": "auto",
       "spot_price_auto_product": "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)",
-      "launch_block_device_mappings": [
-        {
-          "device_name": "/dev/xvda",
-          "volume_type": "gp2",
-          "volume_size": 20,
-          "delete_on_termination": true
-        }
-      ],
-      "ssh_username": "ec2-user",
+      "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
       "ssh_pty": true,
       "encrypt_boot": "{{user `encrypted`}}",
       "kms_key_id": "{{user `kms_key_id`}}",
@@ -51,7 +43,7 @@
           "created": "{{timestamp}}"
       },
       "ami_name": "{{user `ami_name`}}-{{user `build_tag`}}",
-      "ami_description": "EKS Kubernetes Worker AMI with AmazonLinux2 image"
+      "ami_description": "EKS Kubernetes Worker AMI with Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic image"
     }
   ],
 
diff --git a/files/iptables-restore.service b/files/iptables-restore.service
index 6ede7bb67..eb9d0a3ff 100644
--- a/files/iptables-restore.service
+++ b/files/iptables-restore.service
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ After=docker.service
 
 [Service]
 Type=oneshot
-ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/sbin/iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables"
+ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/sbin/iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules"
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/install-worker.sh b/install-worker.sh
index bd227581d..bb9f42ce2 100644
--- a/install-worker.sh
+++ b/install-worker.sh
@@ -12,25 +12,27 @@ TEMPLATE_DIR=${TEMPLATE_DIR:-/tmp/worker}
 ################################################################################
 
 # Update the OS to begin with to catch up to the latest packages.
-sudo yum update -y
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt upgrade -y >/dev/null
 
 # Install necessary packages
-sudo yum install -y \
+sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     awscli \
-    aws-cfn-bootstrap \
     conntrack \
     curl \
     htop \
-    nfs-utils \
+    nfs-common \
     nmap \
     ntp \
     socat \
     screen \
     sysstat \
     unzip \
-    wget
+    wget \
+    >/dev/null
 
-sudo systemctl enable ntpd
+sudo systemctl enable ntp
 
 ################################################################################
 ### iptables ###################################################################
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ sudo systemctl enable ntpd
 
 # Enable forwarding via iptables
 sudo iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
-sudo bash -c "/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables"
+sudo bash -c "/sbin/iptables-save > /etc/iptables.rules"
 
 sudo mv $TEMPLATE_DIR/iptables-restore.service /etc/systemd/system/iptables-restore.service
 
@@ -49,11 +51,9 @@ sudo systemctl enable iptables-restore
 ### Docker #####################################################################
 ################################################################################
 
-sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2
-sudo amazon-linux-extras enable docker
-sudo yum install -y docker-17.06*
+sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker.io=17.12.1-0ubuntu1
 sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
-sudo mkdir /etc/docker
+sudo mkdir -p /etc/docker
 sudo chown root:root /etc/docker
 sudo chmod 700 /etc/docker
 sudo mv $TEMPLATE_DIR/daemon.json /etc/docker/daemon.json
@@ -134,17 +134,18 @@ sudo mv $TEMPLATE_DIR/bootstrap.sh /etc/eks/bootstrap.sh
 sudo chmod +x /etc/eks/bootstrap.sh
 
 # Clean up yum caches to reduce the image size
-sudo yum clean all
+sudo apt-get autoremove -y
 sudo rm -rf \
     $TEMPLATE_DIR  \
-    /var/cache/yum
+    /var/lib/apt/lists \
+    /var/cache/apt/archives
 
 # Clean up files to reduce confusion during debug
 sudo rm -rf \
     /etc/machine-id \
     /etc/ssh/ssh_host* \
     /root/.ssh/authorized_keys \
-    /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys \
+    /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys \
     /var/log/secure \
     /var/log/wtmp \
     /var/lib/cloud/sem \