diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index a8c0301e3f..ca46ea7798 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -23,23 +23,21 @@ RUN cd ./modules/oas-page-builder \
 FROM ubuntu:20.04
 ARG SNOOTY_PARSER_VERSION=0.13.16
 ARG SNOOTY_FRONTEND_VERSION=0.13.36
-# The Redoc CLI branch will most likely stay static. Updates to the branch should 
+# The Redoc CLI branch will most likely stay static. Updates to the branch should
 # be limited to CLI bug fixes and Redoc dependency version bumps
 ARG REDOC_CLI_VERSION=0.1.1
 ARG FLIT_VERSION=3.0.0
 ARG NPM_BASE_64_AUTH
 ARG NPM_EMAIL
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-ENV FLIT_ROOT_INSTALL=1
 
 # install legacy build environment for docs
 RUN apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update
-RUN apt-get -y install libpython2.7-dev python2.7 git rsync
-RUN apt-get -y install curl
+RUN apt-get -y install libpython2.7-dev python2.7 git rsync unzip curl
 RUN curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
 RUN python2.7 get-pip.py
 RUN pip install requests virtualenv virtualenvwrapper py-dateutil
-RUN python2.7 -m pip install python-dateutil 
+RUN python2.7 -m pip install python-dateutil
 RUN virtualenv /venv
 RUN /venv/bin/pip install --upgrade --force setuptools
 RUN /venv/bin/pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mongodb/docs-tools/master/giza/requirements.txt
@@ -51,7 +49,7 @@ RUN apt-get -y install git pkg-config libxml2-dev
 RUN python3 -m pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mut/releases/download/v0.10.2/mut-0.10.2-py3-none-any.whl
 
 
-ENV PATH="${PATH}:/home/docsworker-xlarge/.local/bin:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv/bin"
+ENV PATH="${PATH}:/opt/snooty:/home/docsworker-xlarge/.local/bin:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv/bin"
 
 # get node 14
 # https://gist.github.com/RinatMullayanov/89687a102e696b1d4cab
@@ -63,6 +61,10 @@ RUN apt-get install --yes build-essential
 # use npm 7.*
 RUN npm install npm@7
 
+# install snooty parser
+RUN curl -L -o snooty-parser.zip https://github.com/mongodb/snooty-parser/releases/download/v${SNOOTY_PARSER_VERSION}/snooty-v${SNOOTY_PARSER_VERSION}-linux_x86_64.zip \
+    && unzip -d /opt/ snooty-parser.zip
+
 # setup user and root directory
 RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash docsworker-xlarge
 RUN npm -g config set user root
@@ -74,12 +76,6 @@ WORKDIR ${WORK_DIRECTORY}
 # get shared.mk
 RUN curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mongodb/docs-worker-pool/meta/makefiles/shared.mk -o shared.mk
 
-# install snooty parser
-RUN git clone -b v${SNOOTY_PARSER_VERSION} --depth 1 https://github.com/mongodb/snooty-parser.git  \
-    && python3 -m pip install pip==20.2 flit==${FLIT_VERSION}                                      \
-    && cd snooty-parser                                                                            \
-    && python3 -m flit install
-
 # install snooty frontend and docs-tools
 RUN git clone -b v${SNOOTY_FRONTEND_VERSION} --depth 1 https://github.com/mongodb/snooty.git       \
     && cd snooty                                                                                   \