diff --git a/Dockerfile.prod b/Dockerfile.prod
index 34e06eb..b1d20c9 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.prod
+++ b/Dockerfile.prod
@@ -1,14 +1,36 @@
-FROM python:3.11-alpine
-
-ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
-ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-COPY ./requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
-RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-COPY . /app
-
-EXPOSE 5000
-CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:5000", "app:app"]
+FROM ubuntu:22.04
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Upgrade packages and install locales
+RUN echo "locales locales/default_environment_locale select en_US.UTF-8" | debconf-set-selections && \
+    echo "locales locales/locales_to_be_generated select en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" | debconf-set-selections && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get upgrade -y && \
+    apt-get install -y locales
+
+ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
+    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 \
+    LANGUAGE=en_US:en
+
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
+    PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
+
+RUN apt-get install -y python3-pip
+RUN rm -rf /var/lib/{apt,dpkg,cache,log}/
+
+
+# Create symlinks /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/pip, but only if these files don't exist yet
+RUN { [ -e /usr/bin/python ] || ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python; } && \
+    { [ -e /usr/bin/pip ]    || ln -s /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip; }
+
+RUN mkdir -p /app
+WORKDIR /app
+
+COPY ./requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
+RUN pip install -r /app/requirements.txt
+
+COPY . /app
+
+EXPOSE 5000
+CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:5000", "app:app"]
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 277fd4c..0551430 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ types-requests~=2.31.0.10
 requests-mock~=1.11.0
 mypy-gitlab-code-quality~=1.0.0
 ruff~=0.1.0
-