diff --git a/.ci/openshift-ci/Dockerfile b/.ci/openshift-ci/Dockerfile
index 7c912ee523..0ceedc09d6 100644
--- a/.ci/openshift-ci/Dockerfile
+++ b/.ci/openshift-ci/Dockerfile
@@ -12,17 +12,27 @@
 
 # Dockerfile to bootstrap build and test in openshift-ci
 
-FROM registry.ci.openshift.org/openshift/release:golang-1.18
+FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/nodejs-18:1
 
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
 
+USER 0
+
 # Install yq, kubectl, chectl cli used by olm/olm.sh script.
-RUN yum install --assumeyes -d1 python3-pip  httpd-tools && \
+RUN dnf install -y psmisc nodejs-devel nodejs-libs -q --allowerasing --nobest \
+    # already installed or installed as deps:
+    openssl openssl-devel ca-certificates make cmake cpp gcc gcc-c++ zlib zlib-devel brotli brotli-devel python3 nodejs-packaging && \
+    dnf update -y && dnf clean all && \
+    npm install -g yarn@1.22 npm@9 && \
+    echo -n "node version: "; node -v; \
+    echo -n "npm  version: "; npm -v; \
+    echo -n "yarn version: "; yarn -v && \
+    yum install --assumeyes -d1 python3-pip  httpd-tools && \
     pip3 install --upgrade setuptools && \
     pip3 install yq && \
     curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && \
     chmod +x ./kubectl && \
     mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin && \
     bash <(curl -sL https://www.eclipse.org/che/chectl/) --channel=next && \
-    curl https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/4.12.4/openshift-client-linux.tar.gz | tar xvzf - -C /usr/local/bin/ oc && \
+    curl https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/4.12.30/openshift-client-linux.tar.gz | tar xvzf - -C /usr/local/bin/ oc && \
     chmod ug+x /usr/local/bin/oc