diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 46c83b0467..f5faf1f0e3 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+.git
 awx/ui/node_modules
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/Dockerfile b/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/Dockerfile
index dc4a10bcc4..4658c5d32e 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/Dockerfile
@@ -1,39 +1,13 @@
-# FROM gcr.io/ansible-tower-engineering/tower_devel:latest
-FROM centos
+FROM gcr.io/ansible-tower-engineering/tower_devel:latest
 
-RUN yum install -y epel-release
+RUN yum install -y bzip2 gcc-c++
 
-RUN yum install -y \
-	bzip2 \
-	python-pip \
-	python-virtualenv \
-	make \
-	swig \
-	git \
-	libffi-devel \
-	openssl-devel \
-	libxml2-devel \
-	xmlsec1-devel \
-	xmlsec1-openssl-devel \
-	gcc \
-	gcc-c++ \
-	/usr/bin/pg_config \
-	openldap-devel \
-	postgresql-devel \
-	rabbitmq-server \
-	libtool-ltdl-devel \
-	fontconfig
+# We need to install dependencies somewhere other than /ansible-tower.
+# Anything in /ansible-tower will be overwritten by the bind-mount.
+# We switch the WORKDIR to /ansible-tower further down.
+WORKDIR "/tmp/"
 
-# NOTE: The following steps work for tower-3.0.0
-# RUN curl -LO https://rpm.nodesource.com/pub_0.12/el/7/x86_64/nodejs-0.12.9-1nodesource.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
-# RUN yum install -y nodejs-0.12.9-1nodesource.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
-# RUN rm nodejs-0.12.9-1nodesource.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
-
-# Remove the 2 lines below and uncomment the 3 lines above to build
-# RPMs with the old JS build system.
-RUN curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -
-
-RUN yum install -y nodejs
+# Build front-end deps
 
 # https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/9863
 RUN cd $(npm root -g)/npm \
@@ -42,41 +16,15 @@ RUN cd $(npm root -g)/npm \
 
 RUN npm install -g npm@3.10.7
 
-# We need to install dependencies somewhere other than /ansible-tower.
-# Anything in /ansible-tower will be overwritten by the bind-mount.
-# We switch the WORKDIR to /ansible-tower further down.
-WORKDIR "/tmp/ansible-tower"
-
-# Copy requirements files
-# NOTE: '*' is not used as it invalidates docker caching
-COPY requirements/requirements.txt requirements/
-COPY requirements/requirements_ansible.txt requirements/
-COPY requirements/requirements_dev.txt requirements/
-COPY requirements/requirements_jenkins.txt requirements/
-
-
-# Copy __init__.py so the Makefile can retrieve `awx.__version__`
-COPY awx/__init__.py awx/
-
-# Copy Makefile
-COPY Makefile .
-
-# Install tower runtime virtualenvs
-ENV SWIG_FEATURES="-cpperraswarn -includeall -I/usr/include/openssl"
-RUN make requirements
-
-# Install tower test requirements 
-ENV VENV_BASE=""
-RUN make requirements_jenkins
-
-# Build front-end deps
 COPY awx/ui/package.json awx/ui/
 
 RUN npm set progress=false
 
+# Copy __init__.py so the Makefile can retrieve `awx.__version__`
+COPY awx/__init__.py awx/
 RUN make ui-deps
 
-WORKDIR "/ansible-tower"
+WORKDIR "/tower_devel"
 
 # This entrypoint script takes care of moving the node_modules
 # into the bind-mount, then exec's to whatever was passed as the CMD.
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/docker-compose.yml b/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/docker-compose.yml
index 9e59aadd5f..243726ae8d 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/docker-compose.yml
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ services:
       TEST_DIRS: awx/main/tests/unit awx/main/tests/functional
     command: ["make test"]
     volumes:
-      - ../../../:/ansible-tower
+      - ../../../:/tower_devel
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/entrypoint b/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/entrypoint
index 0fcf42881b..cb7fbe142e 100644
--- a/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/entrypoint
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/unit-tests/entrypoint
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
-mkdir -p /ansible-tower/awx/ui/
-mv -n /tmp/ansible-tower/awx/ui/node_modules /ansible-tower/awx/ui
+mkdir -p /tower_devel/awx/ui/
+mv -n /tmp/awx/ui/node_modules /tmp/awx/ui/.deps_built /tower_devel/awx/ui
 
 exec $@