diff --git a/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.3/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.3/Dockerfile
index ffb3da984..aa985b2d4 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.3/Dockerfile
+++ b/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.3/Dockerfile
@@ -7,133 +7,26 @@
 #
 # Contributors:
 #   Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+FROM ${BUILD_ORGANIZATION}/${BUILD_PREFIX}-theia-endpoint-runtime:${BUILD_TAG} as endpoint
 
-FROM ${BUILD_ORGANIZATION}/${BUILD_PREFIX}-theia-endpoint-runtime:${BUILD_TAG}
+FROM python:3.7.4-slim
 
-# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
-ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
+ENV HOME=/home/theia
 
-# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
-# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
-ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install wget -y && \
+	wget -O - https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash - && \
+    apt-get update && \
+	apt-get install nodejs -y && \
+	apt-get clean && apt-get -y autoremove && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+    pip install pylint python-language-server[all] ptvsd 'jedi<0.15,>=0.14.1'
 
-# install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
-# other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
-RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
+COPY --from=endpoint /home/theia /home/theia
+COPY --from=endpoint /projects /projects
+COPY --from=endpoint /etc/passwd  /etc/passwd
+COPY --from=endpoint /etc/group   /etc/group
+COPY --from=endpoint /entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 
-ENV GPG_KEY 0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.7.3
+RUN chmod -R 777 ${HOME}
 
-RUN set -ex \
-	&& apk add --update --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps \
-		gnupg \
-		tar \
-		xz \
-	\
-	&& wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
-	&& wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
-	&& export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
-	&& gpg --batch --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY" \
-	&& gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz \
-	&& { command -v gpgconf > /dev/null && gpgconf --kill all || :; } \
-	&& rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc \
-	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
-	&& tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
-	&& rm python.tar.xz \
-	\
-	&& apk add --update --no-cache --virtual .build-deps  \
-		bzip2-dev \
-		coreutils \
-		dpkg-dev dpkg \
-		expat-dev \
-		findutils \
-		gcc \
-		gdbm-dev \
-		libc-dev \
-		libffi-dev \
-		libnsl-dev \
-		libtirpc-dev \
-		linux-headers \
-		make \
-		ncurses-dev \
-		openssl-dev \
-		pax-utils \
-		readline-dev \
-		sqlite-dev \
-		tcl-dev \
-		tk \
-		tk-dev \
-		util-linux-dev \
-		xz-dev \
-		zlib-dev \
-# add build deps before removing fetch deps in case there's overlap
-	&& apk del .fetch-deps \
-	\
-	&& cd /usr/src/python \
-	&& gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)" \
-	&& ./configure \
-		--build="$gnuArch" \
-		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
-		--enable-shared \
-		--with-system-expat \
-		--with-system-ffi \
-		--without-ensurepip \
-	&& make -j "$(nproc)" \
-# set thread stack size to 1MB so we don't segfault before we hit sys.getrecursionlimit()
-# https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/commit/2026e1259422d4e0cf92391ca2d3844356c649d0
-		EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DTHREAD_STACK_SIZE=0x100000" \
-	&& make install \
-	\
-	&& find /usr/local -type f -executable -not \( -name '*tkinter*' \) -exec scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' '{}' ';' \
-		| tr ',' '\n' \
-		| sort -u \
-		| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
-		| xargs -rt apk add --no-cache --virtual .python-rundeps \
-	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .python-rundeps \
-		ctags \
-	&& find /usr/local -depth \
-		\( \
-			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
-			-o \
-			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
-		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
-	&& rm -rf /usr/src/python \
-	\
-	&& python3 --version
-
-# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist
-RUN cd /usr/local/bin \
-	&& ln -s idle3 idle \
-	&& ln -s pydoc3 pydoc \
-	&& ln -s python3 python \
-	&& ln -s python3-config python-config
-
-# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
-ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 19.0.3
-
-RUN set -ex; \
-	\
-	wget -O get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'; \
-	\
-	python get-pip.py \
-		--disable-pip-version-check \
-		--no-cache-dir \
-		"pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
-	; \
-	pip --version \
-	; \
-	sudo pip install --upgrade pip && \
-    sudo pip install --no-cache-dir virtualenv && \
-    sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools \
-	; \	
-	pip install pylint python-language-server[all] \
-	; \
-	find /usr/local -depth \
-		\( \
-			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
-			-o \
-			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
-		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
-	rm -f get-pip.py \
-	; \
-	apk del .build-deps
+ENTRYPOINT ["bash", "/entrypoint.sh"]