diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8bf22a65f..78ed52d93 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ install:
 
 script:
     - docker exec -t -e TRAVIS=1 insights_testing bash -c "
+      source /edx/app/insights/venvs/insights/bin/activate &&
       cd /edx/app/insights/edx_analytics_dashboard/ &&
       PATH=\$PATH:/edx/app/insights/nodeenvs/insights/bin:/snap/bin &&
       make $TARGETS "
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index deab74346..9f83615b5 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-FROM ubuntu:xenial as openedx
-
-RUN apt update && \
-  apt-get install -y software-properties-common && \
-  apt-add-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && apt-get update && \
-  apt-get install -y curl && \
-  apt-get upgrade -qy && \
-  apt install -y git-core language-pack-en build-essential python3.8-dev python3.8-distutils libmysqlclient-dev && \
+FROM ubuntu:focal as openedx
+
+RUN apt update && apt-get upgrade -qy
+RUN apt install -y git-core language-pack-en python3.8 python3-pip python3.8-distutils libmysqlclient-dev && \
   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py && \
-  python3.8 get-pip.py && python3.8 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools && \
+  pip install --upgrade pip setuptools && \
   rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/venv
+RUN python3.8 -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
+
 RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
 ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
 ENV LANGUAGE en_US:en