diff --git a/Dockerfile.dapper b/Dockerfile.dapper
index 719487682..191943404 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.dapper
+++ b/Dockerfile.dapper
@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ ARG DAPPER_HOST_ARCH=amd64
 ARG http_proxy
 ARG https_proxy
 ENV HOST_ARCH=${DAPPER_HOST_ARCH} ARCH=${DAPPER_HOST_ARCH}
+ENV PROTOBUF_VER=24.3
+ENV PROTOBUF_VER_PY=4.24.3
 
 # Setup environment
 ENV PATH /go/bin:$PATH
 ENV DAPPER_DOCKER_SOCKET true
 ENV DAPPER_ENV TAG REPO DRONE_REPO DRONE_PULL_REQUEST DRONE_COMMIT_REF
-ENV DAPPER_OUTPUT bin coverage.out
+ENV DAPPER_OUTPUT bin coverage.out ./proto
 ENV DAPPER_RUN_ARGS --privileged --tmpfs /go/src/github.com/longhorn/longhorn-engine/integration/.venv:exec --tmpfs /go/src/github.com/longhorn/longhorn-engine/integration/.tox:exec -v /dev:/host/dev -v /proc:/host/proc
 ENV DAPPER_SOURCE /go/src/github.com/longhorn/longhorn-instance-manager
 WORKDIR ${DAPPER_SOURCE}
@@ -20,11 +22,13 @@ RUN zypper refresh && \
     zypper -n --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
 
 # Install packages
+# TODO: use default python3 if SLE upgrade system python version to python3.11
 RUN zypper -n install cmake wget curl git less file \
+    python311 python311-pip python311-devel \
     libglib-2_0-0 libkmod-devel libnl3-devel linux-glibc-devel pkg-config \
     psmisc tox qemu-tools fuse python3-devel git zlib-devel zlib-devel-static \
     bash-completion rdma-core-devel libibverbs xsltproc docbook-xsl-stylesheets \
-    perl-Config-General libaio-devel glibc-devel-static glibc-devel iptables libltdl7 libdevmapper1_03 iproute2 jq docker gcc gcc-c++ && \
+    perl-Config-General libaio-devel glibc-devel-static glibc-devel iptables libltdl7 libdevmapper1_03 iproute2 jq unzip docker gcc gcc-c++ && \
     rm -rf /var/cache/zypp/*
 
 # needed for ${!var} substitution
@@ -40,6 +44,39 @@ ENV GOLANG_ARCH_amd64=amd64 GOLANG_ARCH_arm64=arm64 GOLANG_ARCH_s390x=s390x GOLA
 RUN wget -O - https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.21.3.linux-${!GOLANG_ARCH}.tar.gz | tar -xzf - -C /usr/local
 RUN curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin v1.55.2
 
+# protoc
+ENV PROTOC_amd64=https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v${PROTOBUF_VER}/protoc-${PROTOBUF_VER}-linux-x86_64.zip \
+    PROTOC_arm64=https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v${PROTOBUF_VER}/protoc-${PROTOBUF_VER}-linux-aarch_64.zip \
+    PROTOC_s390x=https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v${PROTOBUF_VER}/protoc-${PROTOBUF_VER}-linux-s390_64.zip \
+    PROTOC=PROTOC_${ARCH}
+
+RUN cd /usr/src && \
+    wget ${!PROTOC} -O protoc_${ARCH}.zip && \
+    unzip protoc_${ARCH}.zip -d /usr/local/
+
+# protoc-gen-go
+RUN cd /go/src/github.com/ && \
+    mkdir golang/ && \
+    cd golang && \
+    git clone https://github.com/golang/protobuf.git && \
+    cd protobuf && \
+    git checkout v1.5.3 && \
+    cd protoc-gen-go && \
+    go build && \
+    cp protoc-gen-go /usr/local/bin
+
+# TODO: use default python3 if SLE upgrade system python version to python3.11
+RUN ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python3 & \
+    ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.11 /usr/bin/pip3
+
+# python grpc-tools
+RUN if [ "${ARCH}" == "s390x" ]; then \
+    zypper -n in libopenssl-devel && \
+    GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=True pip3 install grpcio==1.58.0 grpcio_tools==1.58.0 protobuf==${PROTOBUF_VER_PY}; \
+    else \
+    pip3 install grpcio==1.58.0 grpcio_tools==1.58.0 protobuf==${PROTOBUF_VER_PY}; \
+    fi
+
 # Install libqcow to resolve error:
 #   vendor/github.com/longhorn/longhorn-engine/pkg/qcow/libqcow.go:6:11: fatal error: libqcow.h: No such file or directory
 RUN wget -O - https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/rancher-longhorn/libqcow-alpha-20181117.tar.gz | tar xvzf - -C /usr/src
diff --git a/scripts/ci b/scripts/ci
index 37943b242..1a050af87 100755
--- a/scripts/ci
+++ b/scripts/ci
@@ -3,7 +3,19 @@ set -e
 
 cd $(dirname $0)
 
-./build
-./validate
-./test
-./package
+BUILDER_FLAG=1 ./generate-grpc
+
+SKIP_TASKS=${SKIP_TASKS:-}
+IFS=' ' read -ra skip_tasks <<<"$SKIP_TASKS"
+
+tasks=("build" "validate" "test" "package")
+
+for task in "${tasks[@]}"; do
+  for skip_task in "${skip_tasks[@]}"; do
+    if [ "$task" = "$skip_task" ]; then
+      continue 2
+    fi
+  done
+
+  ./"$task"
+done
diff --git a/scripts/generate-grpc b/scripts/generate-grpc
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ea2052b47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/generate-grpc
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+# if BUILDER_FLAG is set, then the script will exit with the error code
+: ${BUILDER_FLAG:=0}
+
+cd $(dirname $0)/..
+
+./generate_grpc.sh
+set +e
+
+output=`git diff --stat|grep -e ".pb.go" -e "_pb2.py" -e "_pb2_grpc.py"`
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]
+then
+	echo $output
+	echo GRPC generated code is not up to date
+	exit $BUILDER_FLAG
+fi