diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 275d77ed11..c90cb5596c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## UNRELEASED
 
+IMPROVEMENTS:
+* Control Plane
+  * Update alpine to 3.16 in the Docker image. [[GH-1372](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/1372)]
+
 ## 0.46.0 (July 20, 2022)
 IMPROVEMENTS:
 * Control Plane
diff --git a/control-plane/Dockerfile b/control-plane/Dockerfile
index a2d1d96e34..f572d37413 100644
--- a/control-plane/Dockerfile
+++ b/control-plane/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # -----------------------------------
 # BIN_NAME is a requirement in the hashicorp docker github action 
 
-FROM alpine:3.15 AS dev
+FROM alpine:3.16 AS dev
 
 # NAME and VERSION are the name of the software in releases.hashicorp.com
 # and the version to download. Example: NAME=consul VERSION=1.2.3.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ CMD /bin/${BIN_NAME}
 # We don't rebuild the software because we want the exact checksums and
 # binary signatures to match the software and our builds aren't fully
 # reproducible currently.
-FROM alpine:3.15 AS release-default
+FROM alpine:3.16 AS release-default
 
 # NAME and VERSION are the name of the software in releases.hashicorp.com
 # and the version to download. Example: NAME=consul VERSION=1.2.3.