diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile b/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
index 67e0d4d..6616e73 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=0
 WORKDIR /recommendationservice
 COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
-RUN pip install opencensus
-RUN pip install google-cloud-trace
-RUN pip install google-python-cloud-debugger
 
 # add files into working directory
 COPY . .
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
index 204662c..115471e 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 grpcio==1.0.0
 grpcio-tools==1.0.0
 googleapis-common-protos==1.5.3
+opencensus==0.1.5
+google-cloud-trace==0.19.0