diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 277cdab..b57cfb6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
-FROM alpine:3.18.6
+FROM alpine:3.19.1
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors "Richard Kojedzinszky <richard@kojedz.in>"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source https://github.com/euronetzrt/django
 
-# Install python3 and frequent packages
-RUN apk add --no-cache tzdata py3-pip \
+# Install python3 and prepare virtualenv
+RUN apk add --no-cache tzdata py3-pip py3-virtualenv && \
+    virtualenv --system-site-packages /usr/local/py3-virtualenv && \
+    apk del --no-cache py3-virtualenv
+
+ENV \
+    PATH=/usr/local/py3-virtualenv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin \
+    PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/py3-virtualenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages
+
+# Install frequent packages
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
     py3-tz py3-asgiref py3-sqlparse py3-greenlet py3-mimeparse py3-dateutil \
     py3-psycopg2 py3-grpcio py3-protobuf py3-paho-mqtt py3-sqlalchemy && \
-    ln -sf python3 /usr/bin/python && ln -sf pip3 /usr/bin/pip && \
     pip install --no-cache -U \
     'django<5' \
     django-atomic-migrations \