diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8a11e969..54635f4a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ ARG DASK_SQL_VER
 
 ARG RAPIDS_BRANCH="branch-${RAPIDS_VER}"
 
+SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-euo", "pipefail", "-c"]
+
 RUN pip install --upgrade conda-merge rapids-dependency-file-generator
 
 COPY condarc /condarc
diff --git a/raft-ann-bench/cpu/Dockerfile b/raft-ann-bench/cpu/Dockerfile
index cc2ada9b..23c92f2a 100644
--- a/raft-ann-bench/cpu/Dockerfile
+++ b/raft-ann-bench/cpu/Dockerfile
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ ARG PYTHON_VER
 
 COPY condarc /opt/conda/.condarc
 
+SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-euo", "pipefail", "-c"]
+
 # Create a data folder accessible by any user so mounted volumes under it can be accessible
 # when the user passes their uid to docker run with -u $(id -u)
 # Also add the conda_prefix config to the global bashrc file so that all users have it correctly configured.
diff --git a/raft-ann-bench/gpu/Dockerfile b/raft-ann-bench/gpu/Dockerfile
index 0b64f1e6..141d2a39 100644
--- a/raft-ann-bench/gpu/Dockerfile
+++ b/raft-ann-bench/gpu/Dockerfile
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ ARG RAPIDS_VER
 
 COPY condarc /opt/conda/.condarc
 
+SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-euo", "pipefail", "-c"]
+
 # Create a data folder accessible by any user so mounted volumes under it can be accessible
 # when the user passes their uid to docker run with -u $(id -u)
 # Also add the conda_prefix config to the global bashrc file so that all users have it correctly configured.