diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cf30cbf1d..b0c874558 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ ifndef GOARCH
 GOARCH := $(shell go env GOARCH)
 endif
 
+ifdef BASE_IMAGE
+BASE_IMAGE_ARG = --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(BASE_IMAGE)
+endif
+
 SELINUX := $(shell getenforce 2>/dev/null)
 ifeq ($(SELINUX),Enforcing)
 	SELINUX_VOL_FLAG = :z
@@ -93,7 +97,7 @@ containerized-test: .test-container-id
 	$(CONTAINER_CMD) inspect -f '{{.Id}}' $(CSI_IMAGE_NAME):test > .test-container-id
 
 image-cephcsi:
-	$(CONTAINER_CMD) build -t $(CSI_IMAGE) -f deploy/cephcsi/image/Dockerfile . --build-arg GOLANG_VERSION=1.13.8 --build-arg CSI_IMAGE_NAME=$(CSI_IMAGE_NAME) --build-arg CSI_IMAGE_VERSION=$(CSI_IMAGE_VERSION) --build-arg GIT_COMMIT=$(GIT_COMMIT) --build-arg GO_ARCH=$(GOARCH)
+	$(CONTAINER_CMD) build -t $(CSI_IMAGE) -f deploy/cephcsi/image/Dockerfile . --build-arg GOLANG_VERSION=1.13.8 --build-arg CSI_IMAGE_NAME=$(CSI_IMAGE_NAME) --build-arg CSI_IMAGE_VERSION=$(CSI_IMAGE_VERSION) --build-arg GIT_COMMIT=$(GIT_COMMIT) --build-arg GO_ARCH=$(GOARCH) $(BASE_IMAGE_ARG)
 
 push-image-cephcsi: image-cephcsi
 	$(CONTAINER_CMD) tag $(CSI_IMAGE) $(CSI_IMAGE)-$(GOARCH)
diff --git a/build-multi-arch-image.sh b/build-multi-arch-image.sh
index 72dc64888..1edf57880 100755
--- a/build-multi-arch-image.sh
+++ b/build-multi-arch-image.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ for ARCH in amd64 arm64; do
 	IFS=
 	digest=$(awk -v ARCH=${ARCH} '{if (archfound) {print $NF; exit 0}}; {archfound=($0 ~ "arch.*"ARCH)}' <<<"${manifests}")
 	IFS=$ifs
-	sed -i "s|\(^FROM.*\)${baseimg}.*$|\1${baseimg}@${digest}|" "${dockerfile}"
-	GOARCH=${ARCH} make image-cephcsi
+	base_img=${baseimg}@${digest}
+	GOARCH=${ARCH} BASE_IMAGE=${base_img} make image-cephcsi
 done
diff --git a/deploy.sh b/deploy.sh
index 1965dc332..49bf129e4 100755
--- a/deploy.sh
+++ b/deploy.sh
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ build_push_images() {
 		IFS=
 		digest=$(awk -v ARCH=${ARCH} '{if (archfound) {print $NF; exit 0}}; {archfound=($0 ~ "arch.*"ARCH)}' <<<"${manifests}")
 		IFS=$ifs
-		sed -i "s|\(^FROM.*\)${baseimg}.*$|\1${baseimg}@${digest}|" "${dockerfile}"
-		GOARCH=${ARCH} make push-image-cephcsi
+		base_image=${baseimg}@${digest}
+		GOARCH=${ARCH} BASE_IMAGE=${base_image} make push-image-cephcsi
 	done
 }
 
diff --git a/deploy/cephcsi/image/Dockerfile b/deploy/cephcsi/image/Dockerfile
index f73e85542..03b2adf12 100644
--- a/deploy/cephcsi/image/Dockerfile
+++ b/deploy/cephcsi/image/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ARG SRC_DIR="/go/src/github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/"
 ARG GO_ARCH
-FROM ceph/ceph:v15
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=ceph/ceph:v15
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} as builder
 
 LABEL stage="build"
 
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ COPY . ${SRC_DIR}
 RUN make cephcsi
 
 #-- Final container
-FROM ceph/ceph:v15
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
 
 ARG SRC_DIR
 
@@ -44,6 +46,6 @@ LABEL maintainers="Ceph-CSI Authors" \
     architecture=${GO_ARCH} \
     description="Ceph-CSI Plugin"
 
-COPY --from=0 ${SRC_DIR}/_output/cephcsi /usr/local/bin/cephcsi
+COPY --from=builder ${SRC_DIR}/_output/cephcsi /usr/local/bin/cephcsi
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/cephcsi"]