diff --git a/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl b/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl
index 8ea307ef..88fb20a9 100644
--- a/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl
+++ b/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ root logger by oslo-rootwrap module, imported in _openstack-utility-rootwrap.tpl
 These lines will get rid of duplicate logs, generated because of the formatter
 attached by oslo-rootwrap.
 */}}
-sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.setLevel/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
-sed -i "/handler.setFormatter/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
-sed -i "/os.path.basename/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
-sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.addHandler/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.setLevel/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/handler.setFormatter/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/os.path.basename/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.addHandler/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
 
 # for readiness probe
 touch /tmp/done
diff --git a/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/utility/_compute-utility-rootwrap.tpl b/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/utility/_compute-utility-rootwrap.tpl
index e0681479..84dea6a2 100644
--- a/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/utility/_compute-utility-rootwrap.tpl
+++ b/charts/compute-utility/templates/bin/utility/_compute-utility-rootwrap.tpl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python3
 {{/*
 Copyright 2019 The Openstack-Helm Authors.
 
diff --git a/charts/compute-utility/values.yaml b/charts/compute-utility/values.yaml
index 03c473d2..08b8dc5e 100644
--- a/charts/compute-utility/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/compute-utility/values.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ release_uuid: null
 images:
   pull_policy: IfNotPresent
   tags:
-    compute_utility: 'quay.io/airshipit/porthole-compute-utility:latest-ubuntu_xenial'
+    compute_utility: 'quay.io/airshipit/porthole-compute-utility:latest-ubuntu_bionic'
     image_repo_sync: docker.io/docker:18.09.02
   local_registry:
     active: false
diff --git a/images/compute-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial b/images/compute-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_bionic
similarity index 91%
rename from images/compute-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
rename to images/compute-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_bionic
index 0ecc305d..15cfe519 100755
--- a/images/compute-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
+++ b/images/compute-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_bionic
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ARG FROM=docker.io/ubuntu:xenial
+ARG FROM=docker.io/ubuntu:bionic
 FROM ${FROM}
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors='airship-discuss@lists.airshipit.org, irc://#airshipit@freenode' \
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors='airship-discuss@lists.airshipit.org, irc
 
 ARG KUBE_VERSION=1.12.2
 
+ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
 RUN set -xe \
     && sed -i '/nobody/d' /etc/passwd \
     && echo "nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd \
@@ -23,7 +25,9 @@ RUN set -xe \
        iperf \
        jq \
        moreutils \
-       python-oslo.rootwrap \
+       python3 \
+       python3-pip \
+       python3-oslo.rootwrap \
        radosgw \
        rsyslog \
        s3cmd \
diff --git a/zuul.d/compute-utility.yaml b/zuul.d/compute-utility.yaml
index ed3568fd..f7b29b2d 100644
--- a/zuul.d/compute-utility.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/compute-utility.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     parent: &parent airship-porthole-images
     vars:
       image_name: &image_name porthole-compute-utility
-      distro_suffix: &distro_suffix ubuntu_xenial
+      distro_suffix: &distro_suffix ubuntu_bionic
     files:
       - ^charts/compute-utility/.*$
       - ^images/compute-utility/.*$