diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 8e680caee8..1e7d90b368 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 prune asset
+prune .github
+global-exclude .mypy_cache
 include *.md
 include *.py
 include *.txt
@@ -31,7 +33,5 @@ recursive-include snap *.yaml
 recursive-include tools *.sh
 recursive-include src/molecule/test/scenarios extra-host
 recursive-include src/molecule/test/scenarios hosts
-recursive-exclude .github *.*
-recursive-exclude .mypy_cache *.*
 recursive-exclude docs/docstree/html *.*
 recursive-exclude zuul.d *.*
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index cebcbb2134..a7b2c1e3b5 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ requires =
     pip >= 20.2.4
 
 [testenv]
-usedevelop = True
+# usedevelop fails due to https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/2197
+usedevelop = False
+
 # do not put * in passenv as it may break builds do to reduced isolation
 passenv =
     CI
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ setenv =
     PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
     _EXTRAS=-l --cov=molecule --no-cov-on-fail --cov-report xml:{envlogdir}/coverage.xml --html={envlogdir}/reports.html --self-contained-html
 deps =
+    -e .
     devel: git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible#egg=ansible-core
     # pytest-molecule not used but we want to check that it does not conflict
     devel: git+https://github.com/ansible-community/pytest-molecule#egg=pytest-molecule
@@ -155,9 +158,9 @@ usedevelop = false
 # don't install molecule itself in this env
 skip_install = true
 deps =
-    check-manifest
+    check-manifest >= 0.47
     collective.checkdocs >= 0.2
-    pep517 >= 0.8.2
+    build >= 0.7.0
     pip >= 20.2.2
     toml >= 0.10.1
     twine >= 3.2.0  # pyup: ignore
@@ -165,10 +168,8 @@ setenv =
 commands =
     rm -rfv {toxinidir}/dist/
     python -m check_manifest
-    python -m pep517.build \
-      --source \
-      --binary \
-      --out-dir {toxinidir}/dist/ \
+    python -m build \
+      --outdir {toxinidir}/dist/ \
       {toxinidir}
     # metadata validation
     sh -c "python -m twine check {toxinidir}/dist/*"