diff --git a/demo/opae-nlb-demo/Dockerfile b/demo/opae-nlb-demo/Dockerfile
index c193e0af..53a91367 100644
--- a/demo/opae-nlb-demo/Dockerfile
+++ b/demo/opae-nlb-demo/Dockerfile
@@ -1,57 +1,38 @@
-# CLEAR_LINUX_BASE and CLEAR_LINUX_VERSION can be used to make the build
-# reproducible by choosing an image by its hash and installing an OS version
-# with --version=:
-# CLEAR_LINUX_BASE=clearlinux@sha256:b8e5d3b2576eb6d868f8d52e401f678c873264d349e469637f98ee2adf7b33d4
-# CLEAR_LINUX_VERSION="--version=29970"
-#
-# This is used on release branches before tagging a stable version.
-# The main branch defaults to using the latest Clear Linux.
-ARG CLEAR_LINUX_BASE=clearlinux:latest
+# Fedora is a recommended distro for OPAE
+# https://opae.github.io/latest
+ARG FEDORA_RELEASE="32"
+FROM fedora:${FEDORA_RELEASE} as builder
 
-FROM ${CLEAR_LINUX_BASE} as builder
+# Install build dependencies
+RUN dnf install -y git-core curl cmake gcc gcc-c++ make spdlog-devel kernel-headers libedit-devel libuuid-devel json-c-devel cli11-devel python-devel
 
-ARG CLEAR_LINUX_VERSION=
+# Download and unpack OPAE tarball
+ARG OPAE_RELEASE=2.0.2-1
+ARG OPAE_SHA256=2cc4d55d6b41eb0dee6927b0984329c0eee798b2e183dc434479757ae603b5e1
 
-RUN swupd update --no-boot-update ${CLEAR_LINUX_VERSION} && \
-    swupd bundle-add wget c-basic devpkg-json-c devpkg-util-linux devpkg-hwloc devpkg-tbb git
-# Fetch dependencies and source code
-ARG OPAE_RELEASE=1.5.0-2
-
-# workaround for a swupd failure discussed in https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/831
-RUN ldconfig
 RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/opae && \
     cd /usr/src/opae && \
-    wget -q https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/archive/${OPAE_RELEASE}.tar.gz -O- | tar -zx
+    curl -fsSL https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk/archive/${OPAE_RELEASE}.tar.gz -o opae.tar.gz && \
+    echo "$OPAE_SHA256 opae.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - && \
+    tar -xzf opae.tar.gz && \
+    rm -f opae.tar.gz
 
 # Build OPAE
 RUN cd /usr/src/opae/opae-sdk-${OPAE_RELEASE} && \
     mkdir build && \
     cd build && \
     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wno-misleading-indentation" \
-    cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DOPAE_BUILD_LIBOPAE_PY=OFF .. && \
-    make xfpga nlb0 nlb3
+    cmake .. && \
+    make -j xfpga nlb0 nlb3
 
-# Install clean os-core and libstdcpp bundle in target directory
-RUN mkdir /install_root \
-    && swupd os-install  \
-    ${CLEAR_LINUX_VERSION} \
-    --path /install_root --statedir /swupd-state \
-    --bundles=libstdcpp \
-    --no-boot-update \
-    && rm -rf /install_root/var/lib/swupd/*
-
-# Minimal result image
-FROM scratch as final
-ENV PATH="/usr/local/bin/:${PATH}"
-COPY --from=builder /install_root /
-
-# OPAE
-# nlb0 and nlb3 examples
+# Copy required nlb* utils and their dependencies to the final image
+FROM debian:unstable-slim
 COPY --from=builder /usr/src/opae/opae-sdk-*/build/bin/nlb* /usr/local/bin/
-# libxfpga.so, libopae-c*.so*
-COPY --from=builder /usr/src/opae/opae-sdk-*/build/lib/lib*.so* /usr/local/lib64/
+COPY --from=builder /usr/src/opae/opae-sdk-*/build/lib /usr/local/lib/
+RUN rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3
+RUN ldconfig
 
-RUN echo /usr/local/lib64/ >> /etc/ld.so.conf && ldconfig
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libjson-c4
 
 COPY test_fpga.sh /usr/local/bin/
 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/test_fpga.sh"]