diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 11d5c9d..9f932b2 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ ARG BUILD_DEPENDENCIES="build-base \
     libxml2-dev \
     mariadb-connector-c-dev \
     openldap-dev \
-    py3-pip \
     python3-dev \
     xmlsec-dev \
     yarn"
@@ -17,7 +16,11 @@ ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 \
     FLASK_APP=/build/powerdnsadmin/__init__.py
 
 # Get dependencies
-RUN apk add --no-cache ${BUILD_DEPENDENCIES}
+# py3-pip should not belong to BUILD_DEPENDENCIES. Otherwise, when we remove
+# them with "apk del" at the end of build stage, the python requests module
+# will be removed as well - (Tested with alpine:3.12 and python 3.8.5).
+RUN apk add --no-cache ${BUILD_DEPENDENCIES} && \
+    apk add --no-cache py3-pip
 
 WORKDIR /build
 
@@ -69,7 +72,6 @@ RUN pip install pip-autoremove && \
     pip uninstall -y pip-autoremove && \
     apk del ${BUILD_DEPENDENCIES}
 
-
 # Build image
 FROM alpine:3.12
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 018e03f..0a919fa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Flask-Migrate==2.5.3
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.19
 mysqlclient==2.0.1
 configobj==5.0.6
-bcrypt==3.2.0
+bcrypt>=3.1.7
 requests==2.24.0
 python-ldap==3.3.1
 pyotp==2.4.0