diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 98e528143..0f2596c03 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
 
   build_frontend:
     docker:
-      - image: google/cloud-sdk
+      - image: google/cloud-sdk:latest
     steps:
       - checkout
       - setup_remote_docker
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ jobs:
   #         command: "bin/push-docker-auth-image.sh"
   deploy_to_production:
     docker:
-      - image: google/cloud-sdk
+      - image: google/cloud-sdk:latest
     steps:
       - checkout
       - setup_remote_docker
diff --git a/bin/ci-setup-google-cloud.sh b/bin/ci-setup-google-cloud.sh
index 833c55298..532cd6535 100755
--- a/bin/ci-setup-google-cloud.sh
+++ b/bin/ci-setup-google-cloud.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,13 @@ gcloud --quiet config set compute/zone ${GOOGLE_COMPUTE_ZONE}
 echo "Configuring kubectl"
 gcloud --quiet container clusters get-credentials moocfi-cluster
 
-gcloud components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
+# if ! [ -x "$(command -v gke-gcloud-auth-plugin)" ]; then
+#   echo "kubectl plugin gke-gcloud-auth-plugin not found. Installing..."
+#   echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
+#   curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
+#   apt-get update 
+#   apt-get install -y google-cloud-sdk-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
+# fi
 
 BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)