diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 440004d985..f66ba6917b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -63,32 +63,13 @@ all-cross: ontology-cross tools-cross abi
 format:
 	$(GOFMT) -w main.go
 
-docker/payload: docker/build/bin/ontology docker/Dockerfile
-	@echo "Building ontology payload"
-	@mkdir -p $@
-	@cp docker/Dockerfile $@
-	@cp docker/build/bin/ontology $@
-	@touch $@
-
-docker/build/bin/%: Makefile
-	@echo "Building ontology in docker"
-	@mkdir -p docker/build/bin docker/build/pkg
-	@$(DRUN) --rm \
-		-v $(abspath docker/build/bin):/go/bin \
-		-v $(abspath docker/build/pkg):/go/pkg \
-		-v $(GOPATH)/src:/go/src \
-		-w /go/src/github.com/ontio/ontology \
-		golang:1.9.5-stretch \
-		$(GC)  $(BUILD_NODE_PAR) -o docker/build/bin/ontology main.go
-	@touch $@
 
-docker: Makefile docker/payload docker/Dockerfile 
+docker: Makefile
 	@echo "Building ontology docker"
-	@$(DBUILD) -t $(DOCKER_NS)/ontology docker/payload
-	@docker tag $(DOCKER_NS)/ontology $(DOCKER_NS)/ontology:$(DOCKER_TAG)
+	@$(DBUILD) --no-cache -t $(DOCKER_NS)/ontology:$(DOCKER_TAG) - < docker/Dockerfile 
 	@touch $@
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf *.8 *.o *.out *.6 *exe coverage
-	rm -rf ontology ontology-* tools docker/payload docker/build
+	rm -rf ontology ontology-* tools
 
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 3f94ca85c5..1e4747cdac 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
+# 1. Stage one: build ontology
+FROM golang:1.13 AS build
+WORKDIR /app
+RUN git clone https://github.com/ontio/ontology.git  && \
+    cd ontology && \
+    make 
+
+# 2. Stage two: copy compiled binary from prev builded container(referenced by name build)
+FROM ubuntu:18.04
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=build /app/ontology/ontology ontology
 
-FROM tianon/ubuntu-core:14.04
-ENV ONTOLOGY_PATH /var/ontology
-RUN mkdir -p $ONTOLOGY_PATH
-COPY ontology $ONTOLOGY_PATH
-EXPOSE 20334 20335 20336 20337 20338 20339
-WORKDIR $ONTOLOGY_PATH
-ENTRYPOINT ["./ontology"]
 
+EXPOSE 20334 20335 20336 20337 20338 20339
+#NOTE! we highly recommand that you put data dir to a mounted volume, e.g. --data-dir /data/Chain
+#write data to docker image is *not* a best practice
+CMD ["/app/ontology"]