diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8e0d79af63341e39586dae04148cb9731d78afc2..6c79ec74ff6a07d6651f110069a4ade1bbd55b23 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -224,7 +224,6 @@ oneapi_jug_dev:default:
     - docker build -t ${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}/${BUILD_IMAGE}:${INTERNAL_TAG} 
                       -f containers/oneapi/onedev.Dockerfile
                       containers/oneapi
-                     --no-cache
     - !reference [.build, script]
 
 
diff --git a/containers/oneapi/onedev.Dockerfile b/containers/oneapi/onedev.Dockerfile
index a9241526da8961e1f2f5349573a5479f89c0c80b..a775ae8af6caf8190ce97fecac8bd7316075459e 100644
--- a/containers/oneapi/onedev.Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/oneapi/onedev.Dockerfile
@@ -2,89 +2,28 @@
 
 # Container based on Jug_dev with Intel oneAPI support.
 
+# Start with Debian base and layer oneAPI on top, prevents spack compiler errors.
+
 ## ========================================================================================
-## STAGE 1: Set up Intel OneAPI Toolkit
-## Use Intel's HPC-kit
+## STAGE 1: spack builder image
+## EIC builder image with spack
 ## ========================================================================================
 
+ARG DOCKER_REGISTRY="eicweb.phy.anl.gov:4567/containers/eic_container/"
+ARG INTERNAL_TAG="testing" 
 
-FROM  intel/oneapi-hpckit:2022.1.2-devel-ubuntu18.04 AS oneapi
-
-
-COPY bashrc /root/.bashrc
-
-ENV CLICOLOR_FORCE=1                                                    \
-    LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8                                                \
-    LANG=en_US.UTF-8                                                    \
-    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+FROM ${DOCKER_REGISTRY}debian_base:${INTERNAL_TAG} as builder
 
-## Install additional packages. Remove the auto-cleanup functionality
-## for docker, as we're using the new buildkit cache instead.
-## We also install gitlab-runner, from the buster package (as bullseye is not available atm)
-## TODO: libyaml-cpp-dev is a dependency for afterburner. We can probably remove
-##       this once afterburner is added to spack
+## Install some extra spack dependencies
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt                            \
     rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean                              \
- && ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime          \
- && echo "US/Eastern" > /etc/timezone                                   \
  && apt-get -yqq update                                                 \
- && apt-get -yqq upgrade                                                \
  && apt-get -yqq install --no-install-recommends                        \
-        bc                                                              \
-        ca-certificates                                                 \
-        clang-format                                                    \
-        clang-tidy                                                      \
-        curl                                                            \
-        file                                                            \
-        build-essential                                                 \
-        gdb                                                             \
-        gfortran                                                        \
-        ghostscript                                                     \
-        git                                                             \
-        gnupg2                                                          \
-        gv                                                              \
-        iproute2                                                        \
-        iputils-ping                                                    \
-        iputils-tracepath                                               \
-        less                                                            \
-        libcbor-xs-perl                                                 \
-        libjson-xs-perl                                                 \
-        libyaml-cpp-dev                                                 \
-        locales                                                         \
-        lua-posix                                                       \
-        make                                                            \
-        nano                                                            \
-        openssh-client                                                  \
-        parallel                                                        \
-        poppler-utils                                                   \
         python3                                                         \
         python3-dev                                                     \
         python3-distutils                                               \
-        time                                                            \
-        unzip                                                           \
-        valgrind                                                        \
-        vim-nox                                                         \
-        wget                                                            \
- && localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8                             \
- && gcc --version                                                       \
- && curl -L                                                             \
-    "https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.deb.sh" \
-    | bash                                                              \
- && sed -i "s/bookworm/buster/"                                         \
-           /etc/apt/sources.list.d/runner_gitlab-runner.list            \
- && apt-get -yqq update                                                 \
- && apt-get -yqq install --no-install-recommends                        \
-        gitlab-runner                                                   \
- && apt-get -yqq autoremove                                             \
- && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*                                         
-
-
-## ========================================================================================
-## STAGE 2: spack builder image
-## EIC builder image with spack
-## ========================================================================================
-
-FROM oneapi AS builder
+        python-is-python3                                               \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 
 ## Setup spack
@@ -236,7 +175,7 @@ USER 0
 WORKDIR /
 
 ## ========================================================================================
-## STAGE 3: staging image with unnecessariy packages removed and stripped binaries
+## STAGE 2: staging image with unnecessariy packages removed and stripped binaries
 ## ========================================================================================
 FROM builder AS staging
 
@@ -286,25 +225,94 @@ ADD https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/linux-amd64/mc /usr/local/bin
 RUN chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/mc
 
 ## ========================================================================================
-## STAGE 4
-## Lean target image
+## STAGE 3: Set up Intel OneAPI Toolkit
+## Use Intel's HPC-kit and Create Lean image from staging
 ## ========================================================================================
 
-FROM staging AS lean
+FROM  intel/oneapi-hpckit:2022.1.2-devel-ubuntu18.04 AS oneapi
 
-# We cannot use a new base image and copy from staging
-# So, remove spack and clean-up existing image
-RUN rm -rf $SPACK_ROOT                                                  \
- && rm -rf /var/cache/spack-mirror                                      \
- && export PATH=$OLD_PATH                                               \
- && unset OLD_PATH                                                      \
- && rm -rf /usr/local                                                   \
+
+COPY bashrc /root/.bashrc
+
+ENV CLICOLOR_FORCE=1                                                    \
+    LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8                                                \
+    LANG=en_US.UTF-8                                                    \
+    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+
+## Install additional packages. Remove the auto-cleanup functionality
+## for docker, as we're using the new buildkit cache instead.
+## We also install gitlab-runner, from the buster package (as bullseye is not available atm)
+## TODO: libyaml-cpp-dev is a dependency for afterburner. We can probably remove
+##       this once afterburner is added to spack
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt                            \
+    rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean                              \
+ && ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime          \
+ && echo "US/Eastern" > /etc/timezone                                   \
+ && apt-get -yqq update                                                 \
+ && apt-get -yqq upgrade                                                \
+ && apt-get -yqq install --no-install-recommends                        \
+        bc                                                              \
+        ca-certificates                                                 \
+        clang-format                                                    \
+        clang-tidy                                                      \
+        curl                                                            \
+        file                                                            \
+        build-essential                                                 \
+        gdb                                                             \
+        ghostscript                                                     \
+        git                                                             \
+        gnupg2                                                          \
+        gv                                                              \
+        iproute2                                                        \
+        iputils-ping                                                    \
+        iputils-tracepath                                               \
+        less                                                            \
+        libcbor-xs-perl                                                 \
+        libjson-xs-perl                                                 \
+        libyaml-cpp-dev                                                 \
+        locales                                                         \
+        lua-posix                                                       \
+        make                                                            \
+        nano                                                            \
+        openssh-client                                                  \
+        parallel                                                        \
+        poppler-utils                                                   \
+        python3                                                         \
+        python3-dev                                                     \
+        python3-distutils                                               \
+        time                                                            \
+        unzip                                                           \
+        valgrind                                                        \
+        vim-nox                                                         \
+        wget                                                            \
+ && localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8                             \
+ && gcc --version                                                       \
+ && curl -L                                                             \
+    "https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.deb.sh" \
+    | bash                                                              \
+ && sed -i "s/bookworm/buster/"                                         \
+           /etc/apt/sources.list.d/runner_gitlab-runner.list            \
+ && apt-get -yqq update                                                 \
+ && apt-get -yqq install --no-install-recommends                        \
+        gitlab-runner                                                   \
+ && apt-get -yqq autoremove                                             \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*                                         
+
+## copy over everything we need from staging in a single layer
+RUN --mount=from=staging,target=/staging                                \
+    rm -rf /usr/local                                                   \
+ && cp -r /staging/opt/spack-environment /opt/spack-environment         \
+ && cp -r /staging/opt/software /opt/software                           \
+ && cp -r /staging/usr/._local /usr/._local                             \
  && cd /usr/._local                                                     \
  && PREFIX_PATH=$(realpath $(ls | tail -n1))                            \
  && echo "Found spack true prefix path to be $PREFIX_PATH"              \
  && cd -                                                                \
- && ln -s ${PREFIX_PATH} /usr/local
-                    
+ && ln -s ${PREFIX_PATH} /usr/local                                     \
+ && cp /staging/etc/profile.d/*.sh /etc/profile.d/                      \
+ && cp /staging/etc/eic-env.sh /etc/eic-env.sh                          \
+ && cp /staging/etc/jug_info /etc/jug_info                              \
+ && cp -r /staging/.singularity.d /.singularity.d                        
 
 ## set the jug_dev version and add the afterburner
 ## TODO: move afterburner to spack when possible
@@ -319,4 +327,3 @@ CMD ["bash", "--rcfile", "/etc/profile", "-l"]
 USER 0
 WORKDIR /
 SHELL ["/usr/local/bin/eic-shell"]
-
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index 48650471bd914385839b1e04dd921b5c48f9845f..f87e73c8b452d0348a2cc2e0926c1b60c986fe73 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -44,17 +44,3 @@ spack:
     all:
       compiler: [gcc]
   view: /usr/local
-  compilers::
-  - compiler:
-      spec: gcc@11.2.0
-      paths:
-        cc: /usr/bin/gcc
-        cxx: /usr/bin/g++
-        f77: /usr/bin/gfortran
-        fc: /usr/bin/gfortran
-      flags: {}
-      operating_system: ubuntu18.04
-      target: x86_64
-      modules: []
-      environment: {}
-      extra_rpaths: []