diff --git a/Containerfile.bpfman.local b/Containerfile.bpfman.local
index 83f5a61da..9a33e20c4 100644
--- a/Containerfile.bpfman.local
+++ b/Containerfile.bpfman.local
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # This is a short term fix and will be moving to ubi9minimal as soon as possible. So try to keep
 # keep Ubuntu specifics on their own lines.
 #FROM rust:1 AS bpfman-build
-FROM ubuntu:24.04 AS bpfman-build
+FROM ubuntu:26.04 AS bpfman-build
 
 # Packages need to build on Ubuntu
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y\
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/usr/src/bpfman/target/ \
     cp /usr/src/bpfman/target/release/bpfman-rpc ./bpfman/
 
 #FROM fedora:40
-FROM ubuntu:24.04
+FROM ubuntu:26.04
 
 ## Image for Local testing is much more of a debug image, give it bpftool and tcpdump
 # RUN dnf makecache --refresh && dnf -y install bpftool tcpdump
diff --git a/Containerfile.bpfman.multi.arch b/Containerfile.bpfman.multi.arch
index 7b823327c..2f67c0e16 100644
--- a/Containerfile.bpfman.multi.arch
+++ b/Containerfile.bpfman.multi.arch
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # We do not use --platform feature to auto fill this ARG because of incompatibility between podman and docker
 ARG BUILDPLATFORM=linux/amd64
 
-FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM ubuntu:24.04 AS bpfman-build
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM ubuntu:26.04 AS bpfman-build
 
 ARG BUILDPLATFORM
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ RUN if [ "$TARGETPLATFORM" = "linux/amd64" ]; then \
       cp target/s390x-unknown-linux-gnu/release/bpfman-rpc bin/.; \
     fi
 
-FROM ubuntu:24.04
+FROM ubuntu:26.04
 
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get -y install ca-certificates && \