diff --git a/udc-containers/udc-backend-service/src/main/resources/Dockerfile b/udc-containers/udc-backend-service/src/main/resources/Dockerfile
index e3442f0f9..72063016a 100644
--- a/udc-containers/udc-backend-service/src/main/resources/Dockerfile
+++ b/udc-containers/udc-backend-service/src/main/resources/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM ${docker.baseImage}
+FROM openjdk:8-jre
 
 ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
     LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 \
diff --git a/udc-helm/cicd/jenkins/templates/deployment.yaml b/udc-helm/cicd/jenkins/templates/deployment.yaml
index 69fba6c77..802373ba5 100644
--- a/udc-helm/cicd/jenkins/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/udc-helm/cicd/jenkins/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ spec:
             - name: JENKINS_SLAVEPORT
               value: '50000'
             - name: JAVA_VM_PARAMETERS
-              value: '-Xmx3072m -Xms256m'
+              value: '-Xmx3072m -Xms1024m'
             - name: JAVA_OPTS
               value: '-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/jenkins_home/log.properties'
           volumeMounts: