diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 35b355ba..00000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-FROM gnes/build-base:latest AS dependency
-
-WORKDIR /gnes/
-
-COPY setup.py ./setup.py
-
-RUN python -c "import distutils.core;s=distutils.core.run_setup('setup.py').install_requires;f=open('requirements_tmp.txt', 'w');[f.write(v+'\n') for v in s];f.close()" && cat requirements_tmp.txt
-
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install -r requirements_tmp.txt
-
-FROM dependency as base
-
-ADD . ./
-
-
-RUN pip --no-cache-dir install .[all] \
-    && rm -rf /tmp/*
-
-WORKDIR /
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["gnes"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Dockerfiles/alpine.Dockerfile b/Dockerfiles/alpine.Dockerfile
index 7ec93487..83e0ff5b 100644
--- a/Dockerfiles/alpine.Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfiles/alpine.Dockerfile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache \
             musl-dev python3-dev py-pgen cython openblas-dev && \
     apk add --no-cache libstdc++ openblas libzmq && \
     ln -s locale.h /usr/include/xlocale.h && \
-    pip install . --no-cache-dir --compile && \
+    pip install .[http] --no-cache-dir --compile && \
     find /usr/lib/python3.7/ -name 'tests' -exec rm -r '{}' + && \
     find /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ -name '*.so' -print -exec sh -c 'file "{}" | grep -q "not stripped" && strip -s "{}"' \; && \
     rm /usr/include/xlocale.h && \
diff --git a/Dockerfiles/buster.Dockerfile b/Dockerfiles/buster.Dockerfile
index b68a67c2..34954209 100644
--- a/Dockerfiles/buster.Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfiles/buster.Dockerfile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
             build-essential \
             python3-dev libopenblas-dev && \
     ln -s locale.h /usr/include/xlocale.h && \
-    pip install . --no-cache-dir --compile && \
+    pip install .[http] --no-cache-dir --compile && \
     rm -rf /tmp/* && rm -rf /gnes && \
     apt-get autoremove && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
     rm /usr/include/xlocale.h
diff --git a/Dockerfiles/ubuntu.Dockerfile b/Dockerfiles/ubuntu.Dockerfile
index 0d6e51cd..78ba2c8c 100644
--- a/Dockerfiles/ubuntu.Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfiles/ubuntu.Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
     build-essential python3-dev python3-pip python3-setuptools libopenblas-dev && \
     export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 && export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 && \
     ln -s /usr/bin/python3 python && \
-    pip3 install . --no-cache-dir --compile && \
+    pip3 install .[http] --no-cache-dir --compile && \
     rm -rf /tmp/* && rm -rf /gnes && \
     apt-get autoremove && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
diff --git a/gnes/cli/parser.py b/gnes/cli/parser.py
index 63ea53c9..b1528793 100644
--- a/gnes/cli/parser.py
+++ b/gnes/cli/parser.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def set_composer_parser(parser=None):
     parser.add_argument('--mermaid_leftright', action='store_true', default=False,
                         help='showing the flow in left-to-right manner rather than top down')
     parser.add_argument('--docker_img', type=str,
-                        default='gnes/gnes:latest',
+                        default='gnes/gnes:alpine-latest',
                         help='the docker image used in Docker Swarm & Kubernetes')
     return parser
 
diff --git a/gnes/composer/flask.py b/gnes/composer/flask.py
index 13f47aa4..2a2e34ef 100644
--- a/gnes/composer/flask.py
+++ b/gnes/composer/flask.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ def __init__(self, args):
     def _create_flask_app(self):
         try:
             from flask import Flask, request
-            from flask_compress import Compress
         except ImportError:
             raise ImportError('Flask or its dependencies are not fully installed, '
                               'they are required for serving HTTP requests.'
@@ -69,7 +68,6 @@ def _regenerate():
                 self.logger.error(e)
                 return '<h1>Bad YAML input</h1> please kindly check the format, indent and content of your YAML file!', 400
 
-        Compress().init_app(app)
         return app
 
     def run(self):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 810f4a18..327e3f79 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     'vision': ['opencv-python>=4.0.0', 'imagehash>=4.0'],
     'leveldb': ['plyvel>=1.0.5'],
     'test': ['pylint', 'memory_profiler>=0.55.0', 'psutil>=5.6.1', 'gputil>=1.4.0'],
-    'http': ['flask', 'flask-compress', 'flask-cors', 'flask-json', 'aiohttp==3.5.4'],
+    'http': ['flask', 'flask-compress', 'aiohttp==3.5.4'],
     'onnx': ['onnxruntime'],
     'librosa': ['librosa>=0.7.0'],
     'scipy': ['scipy']