diff --git a/nifi/Dockerfile b/nifi/Dockerfile
index 80c0d53f..5cb5857e 100644
--- a/nifi/Dockerfile
+++ b/nifi/Dockerfile
@@ -38,38 +38,38 @@ RUN apt-add-repository restricted && \
 
 RUN apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev postgresql-server-dev-14 postgresql-server-dev-all python3-dev python3-pip python3.10-full ssl-cert python3-psycopg2 python3.11 python3.11-dev --no-install-recommends
 
+# timezone setting
+RUN apt-get install -y tzdata
+
 # install rust, medcat requirement
 RUN curl -y --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
 
 # needed for rust & cargo
 # RUN bash $HOME/.cargo/env
 
-# timezone setting
-RUN apt-get install -y tzdata
+# clean up apt
+RUN apt-get clean autoclean && apt-get autoremove --purge -y
 
-RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip && \
-    pip3 install setuptools dvc flask GitPython elasticsearch opensearch-py neo4j eland --ignore-installed PyYAML && \ 
-    pip3 install pytesseract ipyparallel py7zr cython isort html2text jsoncsv simplejson detect wheel nltk keras bokeh seaborn matplotlib graphviz plotly tqdm && \
-    pip3 install pymssql mysql-connector-python cx-Oracle dataclasses numpy matplotlib pandas dill jsonpickle jsonext psycopg2-binary python-certifi-win32 certifi pyodbc openpyxl
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \
+    pip3 install --no-cache-dir setuptools dvc flask GitPython elasticsearch opensearch-py neo4j eland --ignore-installed PyYAML && \ 
+    pip3 install --no-cache-dir pytesseract ipyparallel py7zr cython isort html2text jsoncsv simplejson detect wheel nltk keras bokeh seaborn matplotlib graphviz plotly tqdm && \
+    pip3 install --no-cache-dir pymssql mysql-connector-python cx-Oracle dataclasses numpy matplotlib pandas dill jsonpickle jsonext psycopg2-binary python-certifi-win32 certifi pyodbc openpyxl
 
 # XNAT
-RUN pip3 install xnat
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir xnat
 
 # medcat & models
-RUN pip3 install -U spacy click torch thinc
-RUN pip3 install medcat
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir -U spacy click torch thinc
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir medcat
 
 # ApacheNifi specific packages
-RUN pip3 install nipyapi nifi.flowfile avro
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir nipyapi nifi.flowfile avro
 
 # uther useful packages
-RUN pip3 install jupyter geocoder
-
-RUN apt-get clean autoclean && apt-get autoremove --purge -y
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir jupyter geocoder
 
-# clean up
+# clean up pip
 RUN pip3 cache purge
-RUN apt-get autoremove -y
 
 # solve groovy grape proxy issues, grape ignores the current environment's proxy settings
 RUN export JAVA_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=$HTTP_PROXY -Dhttps.proxyHost=$HTTPS_PROXY -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=$no_proxy"