diff --git a/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl b/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl
index c7288d2f..d50546cf 100644
--- a/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl
+++ b/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/_start.sh.tpl
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ set -ex
 sed -i 's/$PrivDropToUser syslog/$PrivDropToUser nobody/' /etc/rsyslog.conf
 /etc/init.d/rsyslog start
 
-sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.setLevel/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
-sed -i "/handler.setFormatter/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
-sed -i "/os.path.basename/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
-sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.addHandler/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.setLevel/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/handler.setFormatter/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/os.path.basename/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
+sed -i "/rootwrap_logger.addHandler/s/.*/#&/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oslo_rootwrap/wrapper.py
diff --git a/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/utility/_etcdctl-utility-rootwrap.tpl b/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/utility/_etcdctl-utility-rootwrap.tpl
index 86e0787a..a3c9d1d6 100644
--- a/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/utility/_etcdctl-utility-rootwrap.tpl
+++ b/charts/etcdctl-utility/templates/bin/utility/_etcdctl-utility-rootwrap.tpl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/python3
 {{/*
   Copyright 2019 The Openstack-Helm Authors.
 
diff --git a/charts/etcdctl-utility/values.yaml b/charts/etcdctl-utility/values.yaml
index 786a5c3b..91ad9dd1 100644
--- a/charts/etcdctl-utility/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/etcdctl-utility/values.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ release_group: null
 images:
   pull_policy: IfNotPresent
   tags:
-    etcdctl_utility: 'quay.io/airshipit/porthole-etcdctl-utility:latest-ubuntu_xenial'
+    etcdctl_utility: 'quay.io/airshipit/porthole-etcdctl-utility:latest-ubuntu_bionic'
     image_repo_sync: docker.io/docker:18.09.02
   pull_policy: "IfNotPresent"
   local_registry:
diff --git a/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial b/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_bionic
similarity index 93%
rename from images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
rename to images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_bionic
index 412d4654..17c48e1b 100644
--- a/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_xenial
+++ b/images/etcdctl-utility/Dockerfile.ubuntu_bionic
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ARG FROM=ubuntu:16.04
+ARG FROM=docker.io/ubuntu:bionic
 FROM ${FROM}
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors='airship-discuss@lists.airshipit.org, irc://#airshipit@freenode' \
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@ RUN set -xe && \
     apt-get install -y \
       bash \
       moreutils \
-      python-oslo.rootwrap \
+      python3 \
+      python3-pip \
       python3-oslo.rootwrap \
-      screen \
       sudo \
-      rsyslog \
-      vim && \
+      rsyslog && \
     TMP_DIR=$(mktemp --directory) && \
     cd ${TMP_DIR} && \
     curl -sSL https://github.com/coreos/etcd/releases/download/v${ETCDCTL_VERSION}/etcd-v${ETCDCTL_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz \
diff --git a/zuul.d/etcdctl-utility.yaml b/zuul.d/etcdctl-utility.yaml
index 9ca7d514..f54b7659 100644
--- a/zuul.d/etcdctl-utility.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/etcdctl-utility.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     parent: &parent airship-porthole-images
     vars:
       image_name: &image_name porthole-etcdctl-utility
-      distro_suffix: &distro_suffix ubuntu_xenial
+      distro_suffix: &distro_suffix ubuntu_bionic
     files:
       - ^images/etcdctl-utility/.*$
       - ^charts/etcdctl-utility/.*$