diff --git a/base/centos-7/install.sh b/base/centos-7/install.sh
index 0d2c2873..ae8e4e33 100755
--- a/base/centos-7/install.sh
+++ b/base/centos-7/install.sh
@@ -47,3 +47,7 @@ rm -rf /etc/security/limits.d/20-nproc.conf
 # Clean
 yum clean all
 rm -rf /anaconda-post.log /var/log/anaconda/*
+
+# symlink for python3
+ln -s /bin/python3 /bin/python
+ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3
diff --git a/base/centos-8/install.sh b/base/centos-8/install.sh
index ebcd7dda..af1f69d2 100755
--- a/base/centos-8/install.sh
+++ b/base/centos-8/install.sh
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ echo "
 
 # symlink for python3
 ln -s /bin/python3 /bin/python
+ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3
 
 # Clean
 yum clean all
diff --git a/base/debian-10/install.sh b/base/debian-10/install.sh
index 28bdb290..d8357bac 100755
--- a/base/debian-10/install.sh
+++ b/base/debian-10/install.sh
@@ -92,3 +92,7 @@ chmod u+s /bin/ping
 # Clean
 apt clean autoclean
 rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Symlink python/pip
+ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3
+ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/base/debian-9/install.sh b/base/debian-9/install.sh
index 7c074cc8..12dc0ef2 100755
--- a/base/debian-9/install.sh
+++ b/base/debian-9/install.sh
@@ -93,3 +93,7 @@ chmod u+s /bin/ping
 # Clean
 apt clean autoclean
 rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Symlink python/pip
+ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3
+ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3
diff --git a/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile b/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
index 2f71cb49..d839e582 100644
--- a/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
+++ b/base/redhat-8/Dockerfile
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ LABEL name="splunk" \
 ARG BUSYBOX_URL
 
 ENV BUSYBOX_URL=${BUSYBOX_URL} \
-    PYTHON_VERSION=3.7.16 \
-    PYTHON_GPG_KEY_ID=0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
+    PYTHON_VERSION=3.9.19 \
+    PYTHON_GPG_KEY_ID=E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
 
 COPY install.sh /install.sh
 
diff --git a/base/redhat-8/install.sh b/base/redhat-8/install.sh
index 63e7950c..790f7217 100755
--- a/base/redhat-8/install.sh
+++ b/base/redhat-8/install.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ set -e
 
 # Generate UTF-8 char map and locale
 # Reinstalling local English def for now, removed in minimal image: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665251
-microdnf -y --nodocs install glibc-langpack-en
+# Comment below install until glibc update is available in minimal image: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2722
+#microdnf -y --nodocs install glibc-langpack-en
 
 # Currently there is no access to the UTF-8 char map. The following command is commented out until
 # the base container can generate the locale.
@@ -71,10 +72,12 @@ make altinstall LDFLAGS="-Wl,--strip-all"
 rm -rf /tmp/pyinstall
 ln -sf /usr/bin/python${PY_SHORT} /usr/bin/python
 ln -sf /usr/bin/pip${PY_SHORT} /usr/bin/pip
+ln -sf /usr/bin/python${PY_SHORT} /usr/bin/python3
+ln -sf /usr/bin/pip${PY_SHORT} /usr/bin/pip3
 
 # Install splunk-ansible dependencies
 cd /
-/usr/bin/python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+/usr/bin/python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade pip
 pip -q --no-cache-dir install --upgrade "requests_unixsocket<2.29" "requests<2.29" six wheel Mako "urllib3<2.0.0" certifi jmespath future avro cryptography lxml protobuf setuptools ansible
 
 # Remove tests packaged in python libs
diff --git a/py23-image/centos-7/Dockerfile b/py23-image/centos-7/Dockerfile
index 04a439f6..0811f0dc 100644
--- a/py23-image/centos-7/Dockerfile
+++ b/py23-image/centos-7/Dockerfile
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.4/Python-3.7.4.tgz \
     && python3.7 get-pip.py \
     && rm -f get-pip.py \
     #pip version is not automatically "fixed", unlike debian-based
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip2 /usr/bin/pip \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip2 /usr/bin/pip
 RUN yum remove -y --setopt=tsflags=noscripts gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel \
     && yum autoremove -y \
     && yum clean all
diff --git a/py23-image/centos-8/Dockerfile b/py23-image/centos-8/Dockerfile
index db936b26..6562f180 100644
--- a/py23-image/centos-8/Dockerfile
+++ b/py23-image/centos-8/Dockerfile
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.4/Python-3.7.4.tgz \
     && python3.7 get-pip.py \
     && rm -f get-pip.py \
     # pip version is not automatically "fixed", unlike debian-based
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip2 /usr/bin/pip \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip2 /usr/bin/pip
     # add python alias
     # && ln -s /bin/python3 /bin/python
 
diff --git a/py23-image/debian-10/Dockerfile b/py23-image/debian-10/Dockerfile
index 8ff6d359..bae3f1c2 100644
--- a/py23-image/debian-10/Dockerfile
+++ b/py23-image/debian-10/Dockerfile
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ USER root
 
 RUN apt-get update -y \
     && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libpython-dev python-pip python-requests python-jmespath python-yaml \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3 \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3 \
     && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python \
     && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip \
     && pip3 install --upgrade ansible==3.4.0 requests==2.25.1 pyyaml==5.4.1 jmespath==0.10.0
diff --git a/py23-image/debian-9/Dockerfile b/py23-image/debian-9/Dockerfile
index 69779918..acbd13d2 100644
--- a/py23-image/debian-9/Dockerfile
+++ b/py23-image/debian-9/Dockerfile
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ USER root
 
 RUN apt-get update -y \
     && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libpython-dev python-pip python-requests python-jmespath python-yaml \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3 \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3 \
     && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python \
     && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip \
     && pip3 install --upgrade ansible==3.4.0 requests==2.25.1 pyyaml==5.4.1 jmespath==0.10.0
diff --git a/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile b/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile
index 89676579..deb0a063 100644
--- a/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile
+++ b/py23-image/redhat-8/Dockerfile
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ FROM ${SPLUNK_PRODUCT}-redhat-8:latest
 USER root
 
 RUN microdnf -y --nodocs update \
-    && microdnf -y --nodocs install python2-pip python2-devel \
+    && microdnf -y --nodocs install python2 \
+    && pip2 install --upgrade pip \
     && pip2 --no-cache-dir install requests pyyaml jmespath \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3 \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip3 \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python \
-    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.7 /usr/bin/pip \
-    && pip3 install --upgrade ansible==3.4.0 requests==2.25.1 pyyaml==5.4.1 jmespath==0.10.0
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3.9 /usr/bin/pip \
+    && pip3 install --upgrade requests==2.25.1 pyyaml==5.4.1 jmespath==0.10.0
diff --git a/splunk/common-files/Dockerfile b/splunk/common-files/Dockerfile
index 7338c52a..809c09c3 100644
--- a/splunk/common-files/Dockerfile
+++ b/splunk/common-files/Dockerfile
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ RUN sed -i -e 's/%sudo\s\+ALL=(ALL\(:ALL\)\?)\s\+ALL/%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL\nans
     && chgrp ${ANSIBLE_GROUP} ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME} ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME}/ansible.cfg \
     && chmod 775 ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME} \
     && chmod 664 ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME}/ansible.cfg \
+    && sed -i '/^\[defaults\]/a\interpreter_python = /usr/bin/python3' ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME}/ansible.cfg \
     && chmod 755 /sbin/entrypoint.sh /sbin/createdefaults.py /sbin/checkstate.sh
 
 USER ${ANSIBLE_USER}
diff --git a/uf/common-files/Dockerfile b/uf/common-files/Dockerfile
index 785de0eb..0048eae1 100644
--- a/uf/common-files/Dockerfile
+++ b/uf/common-files/Dockerfile
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ RUN sed -i -e 's/%sudo\s\+ALL=(ALL\(:ALL\)\?)\s\+ALL/%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL\nans
     && chgrp ${ANSIBLE_GROUP} ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME} ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME}/ansible.cfg \
     && chmod 775 ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME} \
     && chmod 664 ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME}/ansible.cfg \
+    && sed -i '/^\[defaults\]/a\interpreter_python = /usr/bin/python3' ${SPLUNK_ANSIBLE_HOME}/ansible.cfg \
     && chmod 755 /sbin/entrypoint.sh /sbin/createdefaults.py /sbin/checkstate.sh
 
 USER ${ANSIBLE_USER}