diff --git a/.circleci/build_and_push.sh b/.circleci/build_and_push.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index de4006f..0000000
--- a/.circleci/build_and_push.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION=`cat docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION`
-aws ecr get-login --region $AWS_REGION --no-include-email | bash
-echo "Building docker image..."
-cp /tmp/pkg/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics-*.gem docker
-docker build --build-arg VERSION=$FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION --no-cache -t splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:metrics ./docker
-docker tag splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:metrics $AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com/k8s-ci-metrics:latest
-echo "Push docker image to ecr..."
-docker push $AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_REGION.amazonaws.com/k8s-ci-metrics:latest | awk 'END{print}'
-echo "Docker image pushed successfully."
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.circleci/build_and_push_to_dockerhub.sh b/.circleci/build_and_push_to_dockerhub.sh
index adde523..4a9765c 100755
--- a/.circleci/build_and_push_to_dockerhub.sh
+++ b/.circleci/build_and_push_to_dockerhub.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
-FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION=`cat docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION`
 echo "Building docker image..."
 cp /tmp/pkg/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics-*.gem docker
 echo "Copying licenses to be included in the docker image..."
-mkdir licenses
-cp -rp LICENSE licenses/
+mkdir docker/licenses
+cp -rp LICENSE docker/licenses/
 VERSION=`cat VERSION`
-docker build --build-arg VERSION=$FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION --no-cache -t splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:ci ./docker
+docker build --build-arg VERSION=$VERSION --no-cache -t splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:ci ./docker
 docker tag splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:ci splunk/${DOCKERHUB_REPO_NAME}:${VERSION}
 docker tag splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:ci splunk/${DOCKERHUB_REPO_NAME}:latest
 echo "Push docker image to splunk dockerhub..."
diff --git a/.circleci/check_version_trigger_release.sh b/.circleci/check_version_trigger_release.sh
index bc08e6a..22f3a11 100755
--- a/.circleci/check_version_trigger_release.sh
+++ b/.circleci/check_version_trigger_release.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ if [ $VERSION_COMMIT = $LATEST_COMMIT ];
         git checkout -b release/$VERSION origin/develop
         git push https://$RELEASE_GITHUB_USER:$RELEASE_GITHUB_PASS@github.com/splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.git release/$VERSION
         git checkout master
-        git merge --no-edit release/$VERSION
+        git merge --no-edit -X theirs release/$VERSION
         git push https://$RELEASE_GITHUB_USER:$RELEASE_GITHUB_PASS@github.com/splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.git master
 fi
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 6c1bb2a..d756154 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ workflows:
             - unit_test
       - check_version:
           requires:
-            - func_test_master
-            - func_test_develop
+            - unit_test
           filters:
             branches:
               only: develop
@@ -151,5 +150,4 @@ workflows:
             - unit_test
       - release:
           requires:
-            - func_test_master
-            - func_test_develop
\ No newline at end of file
+            - unit_test
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2b05080..a21f250 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@ vendor
 pkg
 coverage/
 .idea/
+docker/gems/
+docker/licenses/
+/.bundle/
+docker/.bundle/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index bb3ddff..374e830 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics (1.1.2)
+    fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics (1.1.3)
       fluentd (~> 1.9.1)
+      http_parser.rb (= 0.5.3)
       kubeclient (~> 4.6.0)
       multi_json (~> 1.14.1)
       oj (~> 3.10.2)
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ GEM
   specs:
     addressable (2.6.0)
       public_suffix (>= 2.0.2, < 4.0)
-    concurrent-ruby (1.1.5)
+    concurrent-ruby (1.1.6)
     cool.io (1.6.0)
     crack (0.4.3)
       safe_yaml (~> 1.0.0)
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ GEM
     ffi-compiler (1.0.1)
       ffi (>= 1.0.0)
       rake
-    fluentd (1.9.1)
+    fluentd (1.9.2)
       cool.io (>= 1.4.5, < 2.0.0)
       http_parser.rb (>= 0.5.1, < 0.7.0)
       msgpack (>= 1.3.1, < 2.0.0)
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ GEM
     http-form_data (2.2.0)
     http-parser (1.2.1)
       ffi-compiler (>= 1.0, < 2.0)
-    http_parser.rb (0.6.0)
+    http_parser.rb (0.5.3)
     json (2.1.0)
     kubeclient (4.6.0)
       http (>= 3.0, < 5.0)
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ GEM
     mime-types (3.3.1)
       mime-types-data (~> 3.2015)
     mime-types-data (3.2019.1009)
-    msgpack (1.3.1)
+    msgpack (1.3.3)
     multi_json (1.14.1)
     netrc (0.11.0)
     oj (3.10.2)
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 15001f9..a1eb595 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ namespace :docker do
     raise 'Argument `tag` was not provided.' unless args.tag
 
     cp Dir['pkg/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics-*.gem'], 'docker/'
-    sh "docker build  --no-cache -t splunk/connect-for-kubernetes:#{args.tag} ./docker"
+    sh "docker build --build-arg VERSION=$(cat VERSION) --no-cache -t splunk/connect-for-kubernetes:#{args.tag} ./docker"
   end
 end
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8428158..9c1218c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.1.2
\ No newline at end of file
+1.1.3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 65bffa4..811b812 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -2,15 +2,16 @@ FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ruby-25
 
 MAINTAINER DataEdge DataEdge@splunk.com
 
+ARG VERSION
+
 LABEL name="Splunk Connect for Kubernetes Metrics container" \
       maintainer="DataEdge@splunk.com" \
       vendor="Splunk Inc." \
-      version="1.1.3" \
-      release="1.1.3" \
+      version=${VERSION} \
+      release=${VERSION} \
       summary="Splunk Connect for Kubernetes Metrics container" \
       description="Splunk Connect for Kubernetes Metrics container"
 
-ARG VERSION
 ENV VERSION=${VERSION}
 ENV FLUENT_USER fluent
 
@@ -19,15 +20,10 @@ USER root
 COPY *.gem /tmp/
 COPY licenses /licenses
 
-RUN gem install -N fluentd:1.9.1 \
-       fluent-plugin-prometheus:1.7.0 \
-       fluent-plugin-record-modifier:2.1.0 \
-       fluent-plugin-splunk-hec:${VERSION} \
-       oj:3.10.2 \
-       multi_json:1.14.1 \
-       bigdecimal:2.0.0 \
-       kubeclient:4.6.0 && \
-    gem install -N /tmp/*.gem
+COPY Gemfile* ./
+RUN gem install bundler \
+   && bundle install \
+   && bundle exec gem install /tmp/*.gem
 
 RUN groupadd -r $FLUENT_USER && \
   useradd -r -g $FLUENT_USER $FLUENT_USER && \
diff --git a/docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION b/docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cc5f65..0000000
--- a/docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1.1.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/Gemfile b/docker/Gemfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..538f8f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Gemfile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+
+# This is separate gemfile for building docker image that has all plugins 
+# for kubernetes log collection agent
+# List all required gems here and install via bundler to resolve dependencies
+gem "fluentd", "=1.9.1" 
+gem "fluent-plugin-prometheus", "=1.7.0"
+gem "fluent-plugin-record-modifier", "=2.1.0"
+
+gem "fluent-plugin-jq", "=0.5.1"
+gem "oj", "=3.10.2"
+gem 'multi_json', '=1.14.1'
+gem 'bigdecimal', '=2.0.0'
+gem 'kubeclient', '=4.6.0'
+gem 'http_parser.rb', '=0.5.3'
+
+gem "fluent-plugin-splunk-hec", "= 1.2.1"
diff --git a/docker/Gemfile.lock b/docker/Gemfile.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba3807d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Gemfile.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+GEM
+  remote: https://rubygems.org/
+  specs:
+    activemodel (5.2.4.1)
+      activesupport (= 5.2.4.1)
+    activesupport (5.2.4.1)
+      concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.2)
+      i18n (>= 0.7, < 2)
+      minitest (~> 5.1)
+      tzinfo (~> 1.1)
+    addressable (2.7.0)
+      public_suffix (>= 2.0.2, < 5.0)
+    aes_key_wrap (1.0.1)
+    attr_required (1.0.1)
+    bigdecimal (2.0.0)
+    bindata (2.4.5)
+    concurrent-ruby (1.1.6)
+    connection_pool (2.2.2)
+    cool.io (1.6.0)
+    domain_name (0.5.20190701)
+      unf (>= 0.0.5, < 1.0.0)
+    ffi (1.12.2)
+    ffi-compiler (1.0.1)
+      ffi (>= 1.0.0)
+      rake
+    fluent-plugin-jq (0.5.1)
+      fluentd (>= 0.14.10, < 2)
+      multi_json (~> 1.13)
+    fluent-plugin-kubernetes_metadata_filter (2.4.2)
+      fluentd (>= 0.14.0, < 2)
+      kubeclient (< 5)
+      lru_redux
+    fluent-plugin-prometheus (1.7.0)
+      fluentd (>= 0.14.20, < 2)
+      prometheus-client (< 0.10)
+    fluent-plugin-record-modifier (2.1.0)
+      fluentd (>= 1.0, < 2)
+    fluent-plugin-splunk-hec (1.2.1)
+      activesupport (~> 5.2)
+      fluent-plugin-kubernetes_metadata_filter (~> 2.4.2)
+      fluentd (>= 1.4)
+      http_parser.rb (= 0.5.3)
+      multi_json (~> 1.13)
+      net-http-persistent (~> 3.1)
+      openid_connect (~> 1.1.8)
+      prometheus-client (< 0.10.0)
+    fluentd (1.9.1)
+      cool.io (>= 1.4.5, < 2.0.0)
+      http_parser.rb (>= 0.5.1, < 0.7.0)
+      msgpack (>= 1.3.1, < 2.0.0)
+      serverengine (>= 2.0.4, < 3.0.0)
+      sigdump (~> 0.2.2)
+      strptime (>= 0.2.2, < 1.0.0)
+      tzinfo (>= 1.0, < 3.0)
+      tzinfo-data (~> 1.0)
+      yajl-ruby (~> 1.0)
+    http (4.3.0)
+      addressable (~> 2.3)
+      http-cookie (~> 1.0)
+      http-form_data (~> 2.2)
+      http-parser (~> 1.2.0)
+    http-accept (1.7.0)
+    http-cookie (1.0.3)
+      domain_name (~> 0.5)
+    http-form_data (2.2.0)
+    http-parser (1.2.1)
+      ffi-compiler (>= 1.0, < 2.0)
+    http_parser.rb (0.5.3)
+    httpclient (2.8.3)
+    i18n (1.8.2)
+      concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
+    json-jwt (1.11.0)
+      activesupport (>= 4.2)
+      aes_key_wrap
+      bindata
+    kubeclient (4.6.0)
+      http (>= 3.0, < 5.0)
+      recursive-open-struct (~> 1.0, >= 1.0.4)
+      rest-client (~> 2.0)
+    lru_redux (1.1.0)
+    mail (2.7.1)
+      mini_mime (>= 0.1.1)
+    mime-types (3.3.1)
+      mime-types-data (~> 3.2015)
+    mime-types-data (3.2019.1009)
+    mini_mime (1.0.2)
+    minitest (5.14.0)
+    msgpack (1.3.3)
+    multi_json (1.14.1)
+    net-http-persistent (3.1.0)
+      connection_pool (~> 2.2)
+    netrc (0.11.0)
+    oj (3.10.2)
+    openid_connect (1.1.8)
+      activemodel
+      attr_required (>= 1.0.0)
+      json-jwt (>= 1.5.0)
+      rack-oauth2 (>= 1.6.1)
+      swd (>= 1.0.0)
+      tzinfo
+      validate_email
+      validate_url
+      webfinger (>= 1.0.1)
+    prometheus-client (0.9.0)
+      quantile (~> 0.2.1)
+    public_suffix (4.0.3)
+    quantile (0.2.1)
+    rack (2.2.2)
+    rack-oauth2 (1.10.1)
+      activesupport
+      attr_required
+      httpclient
+      json-jwt (>= 1.11.0)
+      rack
+    rake (13.0.1)
+    recursive-open-struct (1.1.0)
+    rest-client (2.1.0)
+      http-accept (>= 1.7.0, < 2.0)
+      http-cookie (>= 1.0.2, < 2.0)
+      mime-types (>= 1.16, < 4.0)
+      netrc (~> 0.8)
+    serverengine (2.2.1)
+      sigdump (~> 0.2.2)
+    sigdump (0.2.4)
+    strptime (0.2.3)
+    swd (1.1.2)
+      activesupport (>= 3)
+      attr_required (>= 0.0.5)
+      httpclient (>= 2.4)
+    thread_safe (0.3.6)
+    tzinfo (1.2.6)
+      thread_safe (~> 0.1)
+    tzinfo-data (1.2019.3)
+      tzinfo (>= 1.0.0)
+    unf (0.1.4)
+      unf_ext
+    unf_ext (0.0.7.6)
+    validate_email (0.1.6)
+      activemodel (>= 3.0)
+      mail (>= 2.2.5)
+    validate_url (1.0.8)
+      activemodel (>= 3.0.0)
+      public_suffix
+    webfinger (1.1.0)
+      activesupport
+      httpclient (>= 2.4)
+    yajl-ruby (1.4.1)
+
+PLATFORMS
+  ruby
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+  bigdecimal (= 2.0.0)
+  fluent-plugin-jq (= 0.5.1)
+  fluent-plugin-prometheus (= 1.7.0)
+  fluent-plugin-record-modifier (= 2.1.0)
+  fluent-plugin-splunk-hec (= 1.2.1)
+  fluentd (= 1.9.1)
+  http_parser.rb (= 0.5.3)
+  kubeclient (= 4.6.0)
+  multi_json (= 1.14.1)
+  oj (= 3.10.2)
+
+BUNDLED WITH
+   2.1.4
diff --git a/docker/README.md b/docker/README.md
index 8b6d32a..78cf954 100644
--- a/docker/README.md
+++ b/docker/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Docker Image for Splunk Connect for Kubernetes
 Fluentd with input plugin for k8s metrics
 # To Build
-`docker build --build-arg VERSION=$(cat docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION) --no-cache -t splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:ci ./docker`
\ No newline at end of file
+`docker build --build-arg VERSION=$(cat VERSION) --no-cache -t splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics:ci ./docker`
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/build.sh b/docker/build.sh
index 8f1c18a..8ef4c2b 100755
--- a/docker/build.sh
+++ b/docker/build.sh
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ bundle exec rake build -t -v
 cp pkg/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics-*.gem docker
 
 # Build Docker Image
-FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION=`cat docker/FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION`
+VERSION=`cat VERSION`
 echo "Copying licenses to be included in the docker image..."
 mkdir -p docker/licenses
 cp -rp LICENSE docker/licenses/
-docker build --build-arg VERSION=$FLUENTD_HEC_GEM_VERSION --no-cache -t splunk/k8s-metrics:$TAG ./docker
+docker build --build-arg VERSION=$VERSION --no-cache -t splunk/k8s-metrics:$TAG ./docker
diff --git a/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.gemspec b/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.gemspec
index d9d8fd5..49b0de8 100644
--- a/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.gemspec
+++ b/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.gemspec
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.description   = 'A fluentd input plugin that collects node and container metrics from a kubernetes cluster.'
   spec.homepage      = 'https://github.com/splunk/fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics'
   spec.license       = 'Apache-2.0'
-  test_files, files  = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").partition do |f|
-    f.match(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
-  end
-  spec.files         = files
-  spec.executables   = files.grep(%r{^bin/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
-  spec.test_files    = test_files
+
+  spec.files         = %w[
+    metrics-information.md README.md LICENSE
+    fluent-plugin-kubernetes-metrics.gemspec
+    Gemfile Gemfile.lock
+    Rakefile VERSION
+  ] + Dir.glob('lib/**/**').reject(&File.method(:directory?))
+  spec.test_files    = Dir.glob('test/**/**.rb')
   spec.require_paths = ['lib']
   spec.add_development_dependency 'bundler', '~> 2.0'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'rake', '~> 12.0'
@@ -26,4 +28,5 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_runtime_dependency 'kubeclient', '~> 4.6.0'
   spec.add_runtime_dependency 'multi_json', '~> 1.14.1'
   spec.add_runtime_dependency 'oj', '~> 3.10.2'
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency 'http_parser.rb', '= 0.5.3'
 end