diff --git a/.buildkite/steps/build-docker-image.sh b/.buildkite/steps/build-docker-image.sh
index 1af8647d2b..4e7215fd5b 100755
--- a/.buildkite/steps/build-docker-image.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/steps/build-docker-image.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ trap "docker buildx rm $builder_name || true" EXIT
 echo --- Copying files into build context
 cp -a packaging/linux/root/usr/share/buildkite-agent/hooks/ "${packaging_dir}/hooks/"
 cp pkg/buildkite-agent-linux-{amd64,arm64} "$packaging_dir"
-cp packaging/docker/common/docker-compose "$packaging_dir"
 
 echo "--- Building :docker: $image_tag for all architectures"
 docker buildx build --progress plain --builder "$builder_name" --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 "$packaging_dir"
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 227662ee2a..daff892c97 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ updates:
       - /packaging/docker/ubuntu-24.04
     schedule:
       interval: weekly
-    ignore:
-      - dependency-name: ubuntu
   - package-ecosystem: gomod
     directory: /
     schedule:
@@ -20,12 +18,12 @@ updates:
     groups:
       otel:
         patterns:
-        - go.opentelemetry.io/*
+          - go.opentelemetry.io/*
       golang-x:
         patterns:
-        - golang.org/x/*
+          - golang.org/x/*
       cloud-providers:
         patterns:
-        - github.com/Azure/*
-        - github.com/aws/*
-        - google.golang.org/*
+          - github.com/Azure/*
+          - github.com/aws/*
+          - google.golang.org/*
diff --git a/packaging/docker/alpine-k8s/Dockerfile b/packaging/docker/alpine-k8s/Dockerfile
index 4026024eb2..18d5aad842 100644
--- a/packaging/docker/alpine-k8s/Dockerfile
+++ b/packaging/docker/alpine-k8s/Dockerfile
@@ -1,62 +1,9 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
 
-FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/alpine:3.20.3@sha256:beefdbd8a1da6d2915566fde36db9db0b524eb737fc57cd1367effd16dc0d06d AS base
-
-RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache \
-    bash \
-    curl \
-    docker-cli \
-    docker-cli-buildx \
-    docker-cli-compose \
-    git \
-    jq \
-    libc6-compat \
-    openssh-client \
-    perl \
-    py-pip \
-    rsync \
-    run-parts \
-    su-exec \
-    tini \
-    tini-static \
-    tzdata
-
-COPY docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-
-FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/alpine:3.20.3@sha256:beefdbd8a1da6d2915566fde36db9db0b524eb737fc57cd1367effd16dc0d06d AS kubectl-downloader
-ARG TARGETOS
-ARG TARGETARCH
-
-ENV K8_VERSION=v1.31.0
-
-RUN <<EOF
-set -eu
-wget -qO kubectl \
-    "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$K8_VERSION/bin/linux/$TARGETARCH/kubectl"
-chmod +x kubectl
-EOF
-
-FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/alpine:3.20.3@sha256:beefdbd8a1da6d2915566fde36db9db0b524eb737fc57cd1367effd16dc0d06d AS kustomize-downloader
+FROM public.ecr.aws/buildkite/agent-base:alpine-k8s@sha256:7ae077893231e2dc316f5420567118f85b347b5348e4d453ccb2d1dc6a9100ab
 ARG TARGETOS
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
-RUN <<EOF
-set -eu
-
-apk update
-apk add jq
-URL=$(wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases | jq -r '.[] | select(has("assets") and .assets != []) | .assets[].browser_download_url' | grep "${TARGETOS}_${TARGETARCH}" | head)
-wget -qO- $URL | tar xz
-EOF
-
-FROM base AS runtime
-
-ARG TARGETOS
-ARG TARGETARCH
-
-COPY --from=kubectl-downloader /kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
-COPY --from=kustomize-downloader /kustomize /usr/local/bin/kustomize
-
 ENV BUILDKITE_AGENT_CONFIG=/buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg
 
 RUN mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins \
diff --git a/packaging/docker/alpine/Dockerfile b/packaging/docker/alpine/Dockerfile
index ee064b1ac8..426a73e134 100644
--- a/packaging/docker/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/packaging/docker/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -1,29 +1,9 @@
-FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/alpine:3.20.3@sha256:beefdbd8a1da6d2915566fde36db9db0b524eb737fc57cd1367effd16dc0d06d
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
 
+FROM public.ecr.aws/buildkite/agent-base:alpine@sha256:6334b2999afef6a97557eb6f5b60b4dfe6cac1611dde152b9fffc883ee472e30
 ARG TARGETOS
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
-RUN apk add --no-cache \
-    bash \
-    curl \
-    docker-cli \
-    docker-cli-compose \
-    docker-cli-buildx \
-    git \
-    jq \
-    libc6-compat \
-    openssh-client \
-    perl \
-    py-pip \
-    rsync \
-    run-parts \
-    su-exec \
-    tini \
-    tini-static \
-    tzdata
-
-COPY docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
-
 ENV BUILDKITE_AGENT_CONFIG=/buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg
 
 RUN mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins \
diff --git a/packaging/docker/common/docker-compose b/packaging/docker/common/docker-compose
deleted file mode 100755
index e296811734..0000000000
--- a/packaging/docker/common/docker-compose
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-
-# Prepends the --compatibility flag to arguments to docker compose if not present
-
-set -eu
-
-has_compatibility_flag=false
-
-for arg in "$@"; do
-  if [ "$arg" = "--compatibility" ]; then
-    has_compatibility_flag=true
-    break
-  fi
-done
-
-if ! $has_compatibility_flag; then
-  set -- "--compatibility" "$@"
-fi
-
-exec docker compose "$@"
diff --git a/packaging/docker/ubuntu-20.04/Dockerfile b/packaging/docker/ubuntu-20.04/Dockerfile
index 8e34a89724..89d832704e 100644
--- a/packaging/docker/ubuntu-20.04/Dockerfile
+++ b/packaging/docker/ubuntu-20.04/Dockerfile
@@ -1,63 +1,16 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
 
-FROM public.ecr.aws/ubuntu/ubuntu:20.04@sha256:4a885c102bc7de9ff2ffc4b11b65f35e46827d608069cd959181718aa7d14731
-
+FROM public.ecr.aws/buildkite/agent-base:ubuntu-20.04@sha256:6bcb19149500f017fa4fa75fc2a3c082d3f35df94784594737beaf62568e2613
 ARG TARGETOS
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
-RUN <<BASH
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eufo pipefail
-
-export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-# Install main packages
-apt-get update
-apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-  apt-transport-https \
-  bash \
-  ca-certificates \
-  curl \
-  git \
-  gnupg-agent \
-  jq \
-  openssh-client \
-  perl \
-  python3 \
-  python3-pip \
-  rsync \
-  software-properties-common \
-  tini
-
-# Install Docker Engine
-install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
-curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
-chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
-echo \
-    "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
-    $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
-    tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
-
-# We just updated the main sources. This only updates the docker source
-apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist="sources.list.d/docker.list" \
-    -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts="-" \
-    -o APT::Get::List-Cleanup="0"
-apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
-
-rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ln -s /usr/bin/tini /usr/sbin/tini
-
-mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins
-curl -Lfs -o /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildkite/docker-ssh-env-config/master/ssh-env-config.sh
-chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh
-BASH
-
 ENV BUILDKITE_AGENT_CONFIG=/buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg \
     PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"
 
-COPY ./docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
+RUN mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins \
+    && curl -Lfs -o /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildkite/docker-ssh-env-config/master/ssh-env-config.sh \
+    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh
+
 COPY ./buildkite-agent.cfg /buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg
 COPY ./buildkite-agent-$TARGETOS-$TARGETARCH /usr/local/bin/buildkite-agent
 COPY ./entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/buildkite-agent-entrypoint
diff --git a/packaging/docker/ubuntu-22.04/Dockerfile b/packaging/docker/ubuntu-22.04/Dockerfile
index 105d18c2e7..07769cc47a 100644
--- a/packaging/docker/ubuntu-22.04/Dockerfile
+++ b/packaging/docker/ubuntu-22.04/Dockerfile
@@ -1,63 +1,16 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
 
-FROM public.ecr.aws/ubuntu/ubuntu:22.04@sha256:1582c29f34a48752e406f1a261fe9545fad895da3f6bb4be55bc82485557564e
-
+FROM public.ecr.aws/buildkite/agent-base:ubuntu-22.04@sha256:ca90fbc56ff1813f486bc3d3787c4d2802f31eede330baf1dde3d6923ee89ea6
 ARG TARGETOS
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
-RUN <<BASH
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eufo pipefail
-
-export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-# Install main packages
-apt-get update
-apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-  apt-transport-https \
-  bash \
-  ca-certificates \
-  curl \
-  git \
-  gnupg-agent \
-  jq \
-  openssh-client \
-  perl \
-  python3 \
-  python3-pip \
-  rsync \
-  software-properties-common \
-  tini
-
-# Install Docker Engine
-install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
-curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
-chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
-echo \
-    "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
-    $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
-    tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
-
-# We just updated the main sources. This only updates the docker source
-apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist="sources.list.d/docker.list" \
-    -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts="-" \
-    -o APT::Get::List-Cleanup="0"
-apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
-
-rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ln -s /usr/bin/tini /usr/sbin/tini
-
-mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins
-curl -Lfs -o /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildkite/docker-ssh-env-config/master/ssh-env-config.sh
-chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh
-BASH
-
 ENV BUILDKITE_AGENT_CONFIG=/buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg \
     PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"
 
-COPY ./docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
+RUN mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins \
+    && curl -Lfs -o /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildkite/docker-ssh-env-config/master/ssh-env-config.sh \
+    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh
+
 COPY ./buildkite-agent.cfg /buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg
 COPY ./buildkite-agent-$TARGETOS-$TARGETARCH /usr/local/bin/buildkite-agent
 COPY ./entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/buildkite-agent-entrypoint
diff --git a/packaging/docker/ubuntu-24.04/Dockerfile b/packaging/docker/ubuntu-24.04/Dockerfile
index 375eb24663..f7af3c9a44 100644
--- a/packaging/docker/ubuntu-24.04/Dockerfile
+++ b/packaging/docker/ubuntu-24.04/Dockerfile
@@ -1,63 +1,16 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.4
 
-FROM public.ecr.aws/ubuntu/ubuntu:24.04@sha256:fb95efe0d22be277f10250f15e5172ec0fe22c37eca2ba55e78b526c447eec23
-
+FROM public.ecr.aws/buildkite/agent-base:ubuntu-24.04@sha256:7a48132055c0356b422b2d6a977987d22af65f14d45c357531dbf290e58b66aa
 ARG TARGETOS
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
-RUN <<BASH
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eufo pipefail
-
-export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-# Install main packages
-apt-get update
-apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-  apt-transport-https \
-  bash \
-  ca-certificates \
-  curl \
-  git \
-  gnupg-agent \
-  jq \
-  openssh-client \
-  perl \
-  python3 \
-  python3-pip \
-  rsync \
-  software-properties-common \
-  tini
-
-# Install Docker Engine
-install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
-curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
-chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
-echo \
-    "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
-    $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
-    tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
-
-# We just updated the main sources. This only updates the docker source
-apt-get update -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist="sources.list.d/docker.list" \
-    -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts="-" \
-    -o APT::Get::List-Cleanup="0"
-apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
-
-rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ln -s /usr/bin/tini /usr/sbin/tini
-
-mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins
-curl -Lfs -o /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildkite/docker-ssh-env-config/master/ssh-env-config.sh
-chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh
-BASH
-
 ENV BUILDKITE_AGENT_CONFIG=/buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg \
     PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"
 
-COPY ./docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
+RUN mkdir -p /buildkite/builds /buildkite/hooks /buildkite/plugins \
+    && curl -Lfs -o /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildkite/docker-ssh-env-config/master/ssh-env-config.sh \
+    && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ssh-env-config.sh
+
 COPY ./buildkite-agent.cfg /buildkite/buildkite-agent.cfg
 COPY ./buildkite-agent-$TARGETOS-$TARGETARCH /usr/local/bin/buildkite-agent
 COPY ./entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/buildkite-agent-entrypoint