diff --git a/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e.yaml b/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e.yaml
index a7e8660c..4003041e 100644
--- a/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e.yaml
+++ b/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ setup:
     - name: build images
       command: |
         chmod +x images/build.sh images/samples/build.sh
-        PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 PULSAR_IMAGE=streamnative/sn-platform KIND_PUSH=true images/build.sh
+        PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 PULSAR_IMAGE=streamnative/sn-platform PYTHON_VERSION=3.10 KIND_PUSH=true images/build.sh
         PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 KIND_PUSH=true images/samples/build.sh
 
     - name: install helm
diff --git a/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e_with_downloader.yaml b/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e_with_downloader.yaml
index 486885ed..b6833c07 100644
--- a/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e_with_downloader.yaml
+++ b/.ci/tests/integration-oauth2/e2e_with_downloader.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ setup:
     - name: build images
       command: |
         chmod +x images/build.sh images/samples/build.sh
-        PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 PULSAR_IMAGE=streamnative/sn-platform KIND_PUSH=true images/build.sh
+        PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 PULSAR_IMAGE=streamnative/sn-platform PYTHON_VERSION=3.9 KIND_PUSH=true images/build.sh
         PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 KIND_PUSH=true images/samples/build.sh
 
     - name: install helm
diff --git a/.ci/tests/integration/e2e_with_tls.yaml b/.ci/tests/integration/e2e_with_tls.yaml
index e1844caf..2182ba2d 100644
--- a/.ci/tests/integration/e2e_with_tls.yaml
+++ b/.ci/tests/integration/e2e_with_tls.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ setup:
     - name: build images
       command: |
         chmod +x images/build.sh images/samples/build.sh
-        PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 PULSAR_IMAGE=streamnative/sn-platform KIND_PUSH=true images/build.sh
+        PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 PULSAR_IMAGE=streamnative/sn-platform PYTHON_VERSION=3.11 KIND_PUSH=true images/build.sh
         PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=3.2.2.1 KIND_PUSH=true images/samples/build.sh
 
     - name: install helm
diff --git a/images/build.sh b/images/build.sh
index d292f24d..1a5dc650 100755
--- a/images/build.sh
+++ b/images/build.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ set -e
 
 PULSAR_IMAGE=${PULSAR_IMAGE:-"streamnative/sn-platform"}
 PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG=${PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG:-"2.7.1"}
+PYTHON_VERSION=${PYTHON_VERSION:-"3.12"}
 DOCKER_REPO=${DOCKER_REPO:-"streamnative"}
 RUNNER_BASE="pulsar-functions-runner-base"
 PULSARCTL_RUNNER_BASE="pulsar-functions-pulsarctl-runner-base"
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ docker tag ${PULSARCTL_JAVA_RUNNER} "${DOCKER_REPO}"/${PULSARCTL_JAVA_RUNNER}:"$
 
 echo "build python runner"
 docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t ${PYTHON_RUNNER} images/pulsar-functions-python-runner --build-arg PULSAR_IMAGE="$PULSAR_IMAGE" --build-arg PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG="$PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG" --progress=plain
-docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t ${PULSARCTL_PYTHON_RUNNER} images/pulsar-functions-python-runner -f images/pulsar-functions-python-runner/pulsarctl.Dockerfile --build-arg PULSAR_IMAGE="$PULSAR_IMAGE" --build-arg PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG="$PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG" --progress=plain
+docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t ${PULSARCTL_PYTHON_RUNNER} images/pulsar-functions-python-runner -f images/pulsar-functions-python-runner/pulsarctl.Dockerfile --build-arg PULSAR_IMAGE="$PULSAR_IMAGE" --build-arg PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG="$PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG" --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION="$PYTHON_VERSION" --progress=plain
 docker tag ${PYTHON_RUNNER} "${DOCKER_REPO}"/${PYTHON_RUNNER}:"${RUNNER_TAG}"
 docker tag ${PULSARCTL_PYTHON_RUNNER} "${DOCKER_REPO}"/${PULSARCTL_PYTHON_RUNNER}:"${RUNNER_TAG}"
 
diff --git a/images/pulsar-functions-python-runner/pulsarctl.Dockerfile b/images/pulsar-functions-python-runner/pulsarctl.Dockerfile
index d42f542a..182b2a29 100644
--- a/images/pulsar-functions-python-runner/pulsarctl.Dockerfile
+++ b/images/pulsar-functions-python-runner/pulsarctl.Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,34 @@
 ARG PULSAR_IMAGE
 ARG PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.12
 FROM ${PULSAR_IMAGE}:${PULSAR_IMAGE_TAG} as pulsar
-FROM pulsar-functions-pulsarctl-runner-base:latest
+
+FROM python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-alpine
+
+ENV GID=10001
+ENV UID=10000
+ENV USER=pulsar
+RUN addgroup -g $GID pulsar
+RUN adduser -u $UID -G pulsar -D -g '' $USER
+
+RUN mkdir -p /pulsar/bin/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/lib/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/conf/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/instances/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/connectors/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/logs/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/tmp/ \
+    && mkdir -p /pulsar/examples/ \
+    && chown -R $UID:$GID /pulsar \
+    && chmod -R g=u /pulsar \
+    && apk update && apk add --no-cache wget bash \
+         && wget https://github.com/streamnative/pulsarctl/releases/latest/download/pulsarctl-amd64-linux.tar.gz -P /pulsar/bin/ \
+         && tar -xzf /pulsar/bin/pulsarctl-amd64-linux.tar.gz -C /pulsar/bin/ \
+         && rm -rf /pulsar/bin/pulsarctl-amd64-linux.tar.gz \
+         && chmod +x /pulsar/bin/pulsarctl-amd64-linux/pulsarctl \
+         && ln -s /pulsar/bin/pulsarctl-amd64-linux/pulsarctl /usr/local/bin/pulsarctl
+
+WORKDIR /pulsar
 
 COPY --from=pulsar --chown=$UID:$GID /pulsar/bin /pulsar/bin
 COPY --from=pulsar --chown=$UID:$GID /pulsar/instances/python-instance /pulsar/instances/python-instance
@@ -20,7 +47,7 @@ ENV PULSAR_CLIENT_PYTHON_VERSION=3.5.0
 COPY --from=pulsar --chown=$UID:$GID /pulsar/README /pulsar/cpp-clien* /pulsar/cpp-client/
 
 RUN apk update \
-     && apk add --no-cache python3 python3-dev tk-dev curl ca-certificates\
+     && apk add --no-cache tk-dev curl ca-certificates\
      && mkdir -p /etc/pki/tls/certs && cp /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt \
      && curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py \
      && mv /usr/lib/python3.*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED  /tmp/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED.old \