diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7e6fbd919f9..cf83efaf58a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 * [CHANGE] Vulture now exercises search at any point during the block retention to test full backend search. 
   **BREAKING CHANGE** Dropped `tempo-search-retention-duration` parameter.  [#1297](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/1297) (@joe-elliott)
 * [CHANGE] Updated storage.trace.pool.queue_depth default from 200->10000. [#1345](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/1345) (@joe-elliott)
+* [CHANGE] Update alpine images to 3.15 [#1330](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/1330) (@zalegrala)
 * [FEATURE]: v2 object encoding added. This encoding adds a start/end timestamp to every record to reduce proto marshalling and increase search speed.  
   **BREAKING CHANGE** After this rollout the distributors will use a new API on the ingesters. As such you must rollout all ingesters before rolling the 
   distributors. Also, during this period, the ingesters will use considerably more resources and as such should be scaled up (or incoming traffic should be
diff --git a/cmd/tempo-vulture/Dockerfile b/cmd/tempo-vulture/Dockerfile
index 21f72df0905..874b4a5fb71 100644
--- a/cmd/tempo-vulture/Dockerfile
+++ b/cmd/tempo-vulture/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.9 as certs
+FROM alpine:3.15 as certs
 RUN apk --update add ca-certificates
 ARG TARGETARCH
 COPY bin/linux/tempo-vulture-${TARGETARCH} /tempo-vulture
diff --git a/cmd/tempo/Dockerfile b/cmd/tempo/Dockerfile
index f96f8d6368f..4e089fd86e9 100644
--- a/cmd/tempo/Dockerfile
+++ b/cmd/tempo/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.9 as certs
+FROM alpine:3.15 as certs
 RUN apk --update add ca-certificates
 ARG TARGETARCH
 COPY bin/linux/tempo-${TARGETARCH} /tempo