diff --git a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
index 29734e17fa8..cf02bc84960 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
@@ -101,3 +101,4 @@ The list below covers the major changes between 7.0.0-rc2 and master only.
 - Update Go version to 1.14.4. {pull}19753[19753]
 - Update Go version to 1.14.7. {pull}20508[20508]
 - Add packaging for docker image based on UBI minimal 8. {pull}20576[20576]
+- Make the mage binary used by the build process in the docker container to be statically compiled. {pull}20827[20827]
diff --git a/dev-tools/mage/crossbuild.go b/dev-tools/mage/crossbuild.go
index 6a11f7666cd..22b0ae574df 100644
--- a/dev-tools/mage/crossbuild.go
+++ b/dev-tools/mage/crossbuild.go
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func CrossBuildXPack(options ...CrossBuildOption) error {
 // values for Docker. It has the benefit of speeding up the build because the
 // mage -compile is done only once rather than in each Docker container.
 func buildMage() error {
-	return sh.Run("mage", "-f", "-goos=linux", "-goarch=amd64",
+	return sh.RunWith(map[string]string{"CGO_ENABLED": "0"}, "mage", "-f", "-goos=linux", "-goarch=amd64",
 		"-compile", CreateDir(filepath.Join("build", "mage-linux-amd64")))
 }