diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile b/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
index 1490261..881f12a 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-FROM grpc/python:1.0
-
+FROM python:2.7-slim
+RUN apt-get update -qqy && \
+	apt-get -qqy install wget && \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 # show python logs as they occur
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=0
 
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
index bbf9bcc..470d93c 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ google-cloud-trace==0.19.0
 google-python-cloud-debugger==2.8
 googleapis-common-protos==1.5.3
 grpcio==1.13.0
-grpcio-health-checking==1.14.1
+grpcio-health-checking==1.13.0
 grpcio-tools==1.0.0
 httplib2==0.11.3
 idna==2.7