diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker.yaml b/.github/workflows/docker_targets.yaml
similarity index 83%
rename from .github/workflows/docker.yaml
rename to .github/workflows/docker_targets.yaml
index 063dfab68f..0d13ae5515 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker_targets.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: build docker container
+name: build targets docker container
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -24,5 +24,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
         with:
           push: true
-          tags: eco4cast/rocker-neon4cast:latest
+          tags: eco4cast/usgsrc4cast-targets:latest
           build-args: GITHUB_PAT=${{ secrets.PAT }}
+          file: targets/Dockerfile
diff --git a/.github/workflows/targets.yaml b/.github/workflows/targets.yaml
index c0d731838e..a221268ac6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/targets.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/targets.yaml
@@ -16,14 +16,13 @@ jobs:
       AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_SUBMISSIONS }}
       OSN_KEY: ${{ secrets.OSN_KEY }}
       OSN_SECRET: ${{ secrets.OSN_SECRET }}
-    container: rocker/geospatial:latest
+    container: eco4cast/usgsrc4cast-targets:latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Generate targets
         shell: Rscript {0}
         run: |
-          install.packages(c("clustermq", "dataRetrieval", "RCurl", "tarchetypes", "targets"))
           setwd("targets")
           targets::tar_make()
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index bef3f2e8d0..0000000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-FROM rocker/geospatial:latest
-
-# Import GitHub Secret
-ARG GITHUB_PAT
-ENV GITHUB_PAT=$GITHUB_PAT
-
-# Declares build arguments
-# ARG NB_USER
-# ARG NB_UID
-
-# COPY --chown=${NB_USER} . ${HOME}
-
-#USER root
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install cron
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install jags
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install libgd-dev
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install libnetcdf-dev
-
-#USER ${NB_USER}
-
-RUN apt-get -y install python3 python3-pip
-
-RUN install2.r devtools remotes reticulate
-
-RUN R -e "remotes::install_github(c('cboettig/minioclient','eco4cast/stac4cast', 'eco4cast/EFIstandards','cboettig/aws.s3','eco4cast/score4cast','EcoForecast/ecoforecastR','eco4cast/neon4cast','cboettig/prov', 'eco4cast/read4cast','eco4cast/gefs4cast'))"
-
-RUN install2.r arrow renv rjags neonstore ISOweek RNetCDF fable fabletools forecast imputeTS duckdbfs gsheet
-
-RUN install2.r ncdf4 scoringRules tidybayes tidync udunits2 bench contentid yaml RCurl here feasts future furrr jsonlite
-
-#RUN R -e "reticulate::install_python(version = '3.9:latest', list = FALSE, force = FALSE)"
-
-COPY cron.sh /etc/services.d/cron/run
diff --git a/targets/Dockerfile b/targets/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f34c3fafd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/targets/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+FROM eco4cast/rocker-neon4cast:latest
+
+# Import GitHub Secret
+ARG GITHUB_PAT
+ENV GITHUB_PAT=$GITHUB_PAT
+
+# Declares build arguments
+# ARG NB_USER
+# ARG NB_UID
+
+# COPY --chown=${NB_USER} . ${HOME}
+
+#USER ${NB_USER}
+RUN install2.r --error \
+  clustermq \
+  dataRetrieval \
+  tarchetypes \
+  targets \
+  && rm -rf /tmp/downloaded_packages /tmp/*.rds /tmp/Rtmp*
+
+COPY cron.sh /etc/services.d/cron/run