diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index 7faaed49c1..94f768719f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ jobs:
                                              ghcr.io/neondatabase/neon:${{ needs.meta.outputs.build-tag }}-bookworm-arm64
 
   compute-node-image-arch:
-    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image, meta ]
+    needs: [ check-permissions, meta ]
     if: ${{ contains(fromJSON('["push-main", "pr", "compute-rc-pr"]'), needs.meta.outputs.run-kind) }}
     permissions:
       id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
@@ -743,7 +743,6 @@ jobs:
             GIT_VERSION=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
             PG_VERSION=${{ matrix.version.pg }}
             BUILD_TAG=${{ needs.meta.outputs.release-tag || needs.meta.outputs.build-tag }}
-            TAG=${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image-tag }}-${{ matrix.version.debian }}
             DEBIAN_VERSION=${{ matrix.version.debian }}
           provenance: false
           push: true
@@ -763,7 +762,6 @@ jobs:
             GIT_VERSION=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
             PG_VERSION=${{ matrix.version.pg }}
             BUILD_TAG=${{ needs.meta.outputs.release-tag || needs.meta.outputs.build-tag }}
-            TAG=${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image-tag }}-${{ matrix.version.debian }}
             DEBIAN_VERSION=${{ matrix.version.debian }}
           provenance: false
           push: true
diff --git a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
index 13972269ae..7cd152f614 100644
--- a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
+++ b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
@@ -77,9 +77,6 @@
 # build_and_test.yml github workflow for how that's done.
 
 ARG PG_VERSION
-ARG REPOSITORY=ghcr.io/neondatabase
-ARG IMAGE=build-tools
-ARG TAG=pinned
 ARG BUILD_TAG
 ARG DEBIAN_VERSION=bookworm
 ARG DEBIAN_FLAVOR=${DEBIAN_VERSION}-slim
@@ -150,6 +147,7 @@ RUN case $DEBIAN_VERSION in \
     zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libossp-uuid-dev wget ca-certificates pkg-config libssl-dev \
     libicu-dev libxslt1-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev zstd curl unzip g++ \
     libclang-dev \
+    jsonnet \
     $VERSION_INSTALLS \
     && apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
     useradd -ms /bin/bash nonroot -b /home
@@ -1724,7 +1722,7 @@ FROM extensions-${EXTENSIONS} AS neon-pg-ext-build
 # Compile the Neon-specific `compute_ctl`, `fast_import`, and `local_proxy` binaries
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS compute-tools
+FROM build-deps-with-cargo AS compute-tools
 ARG BUILD_TAG
 ENV BUILD_TAG=$BUILD_TAG
 
@@ -1734,7 +1732,7 @@ COPY --chown=nonroot . .
 RUN --mount=type=cache,uid=1000,target=/home/nonroot/.cargo/registry \
     --mount=type=cache,uid=1000,target=/home/nonroot/.cargo/git \
     --mount=type=cache,uid=1000,target=/home/nonroot/target \
-    mold -run cargo build --locked --profile release-line-debug-size-lto --bin compute_ctl --bin fast_import --bin local_proxy && \
+    cargo build --locked --profile release-line-debug-size-lto --bin compute_ctl --bin fast_import --bin local_proxy && \
     mkdir target-bin && \
     cp target/release-line-debug-size-lto/compute_ctl \
        target/release-line-debug-size-lto/fast_import \
@@ -1828,10 +1826,11 @@ RUN rm /usr/local/pgsql/lib/lib*.a
 # Preprocess the sql_exporter configuration files
 #
 #########################################################################################
-FROM $REPOSITORY/$IMAGE:$TAG AS sql_exporter_preprocessor
+FROM build-deps AS sql_exporter_preprocessor
 ARG PG_VERSION
 
 USER nonroot
+WORKDIR /home/nonroot
 
 COPY --chown=nonroot compute compute