diff --git a/Dockerfile.develop.ci b/Dockerfile.develop.ci
index ff9ef620..718a44bb 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.develop.ci
+++ b/Dockerfile.develop.ci
@@ -36,17 +36,20 @@ ENV HOME=/go
 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/opendatahub-io/modelmesh-serving/
 
 # Install build and dev tools
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=${HOME}/.cache/dnf:rw \
-    dnf install --setopt=cachedir=${HOME}/.cache/dnf -y --nodocs \
-       python3 \
-       python3-pip \
+# NOTE: Require python38 to install pre-commit
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/dnf:rw \
+    dnf install --setopt=cachedir=/root/.cache/dnf -y --nodocs \
        nodejs \
-       jq
+       jq \
+       python38 \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip \
+    && true
 
 # Install pre-commit
-ENV PIP_CACHE_DIR=${HOME}/.cache/pip
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=${HOME}/.cache/pip \
-    pip3 install pre-commit
+ENV PIP_CACHE_DIR=/root/.cache/pip
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \
+    pip install pre-commit
 
 # First download and extract older dist of kubebuilder which includes required etcd, kube-apiserver and kubectl binaries
 # Then download and overwrite kubebuilder binary with desired/latest version