diff --git a/ee/api/Dockerfile b/ee/api/Dockerfile
index f15d68569..a29700316 100644
--- a/ee/api/Dockerfile
+++ b/ee/api/Dockerfile
@@ -1,8 +1,31 @@
 FROM python:3.12-alpine
-LABEL Maintainer="KRAIEM Taha Yassine<tahayk2@gmail.com>"
-RUN apk add --no-cache build-base libressl libffi-dev libressl-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev xmlsec-dev xmlsec tini
+LABEL maintainer="KRAIEM Taha Yassine<tahayk2@gmail.com>"
+WORKDIR /app
+
+COPY . .
+RUN mv env.default .env
+RUN apk add --no-cache tini xmlsec && \
+  export UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON=true && \
+  pip install uv && \
+  apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+  build-base \
+  libressl \
+  libffi-dev \
+  libressl-dev \
+  libxslt-dev \
+  libxml2-dev \
+  xmlsec-dev && \
+  uv pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r requirements.txt && \
+  # Solve the libxml2 library version mismatch by reinstalling lxml with matching libxml2
+  uv pip uninstall lxml && \
+  uv pip install --no-cache-dir --no-binary lxml lxml --force-reinstall && \
+  # Create non-root user
+  adduser -u 1001 openreplay -D && \
+  # Cleanup build dependencies
+  apk del .build-deps
 
 ARG envarg
+ARG GIT_SHA
 ENV SOURCE_MAP_VERSION=0.7.4 \
   APP_NAME=chalice \
   LISTEN_PORT=8000 \
@@ -10,17 +33,12 @@ ENV SOURCE_MAP_VERSION=0.7.4 \
   ENTERPRISE_BUILD=${envarg} \
   GIT_SHA=$GIT_SHA
 
-WORKDIR /work
-COPY requirements.txt ./requirements.txt
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r requirements.txt
-# This code is used to solve 'lxml & xmlsec libxml2 library version mismatch' error
-RUN pip uninstall -y lxml && pip install lxml
+WORKDIR /app
 
 COPY . .
 RUN mv env.default .env
 
-RUN adduser -u 1001 openreplay -D
 USER 1001
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/sbin/tini", "--"]
-CMD ./entrypoint.sh
+CMD ["./entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/ee/api/requirements.txt b/ee/api/requirements.txt
index 7b849d9fe..0ab8a96b4 100644
--- a/ee/api/requirements.txt
+++ b/ee/api/requirements.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ apscheduler==3.10.4
 clickhouse-driver[lz4]==0.2.9
 # TODO: enable after xmlsec fix https://github.com/xmlsec/python-xmlsec/issues/252
 #--no-binary is used to avoid libxml2 library version incompatibilities between xmlsec and lxml
-lxml >= 4.6.5, !=4.7.0, <=5.2.1
-python3-saml==1.16.0 --no-binary=lxml
+python3-saml==1.16.0
+--no-binary=lxml
 python-multipart==0.0.17
 
 redis==5.2.0