diff --git a/containers/README.md b/containers/README.md
index cee40dc0..a286e6dc 100644
--- a/containers/README.md
+++ b/containers/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Most of the images are built on top of a common base image that contains the com
 
 The images are that can be found in this directory:
 
-1. `rucio-client`: to run on your local laptop, has all the packages installed to authenticate with the VRE Rucio instance, to upload, replicate and download data. It also contains the latest `REANA` client. This image starts from `rucio/rucio-clients:release-1.30.0`, though.
+1. `rucio-client`: to run on your local laptop, has all the packages installed to authenticate with the VRE Rucio instance, to upload, replicate and download data. It also contains the latest `REANA` client. This image uses `rucio/rucio-clients` as the `BASE` image, though (Same `release-vX.Y.Z` as the rest of containers).
 2. `rucio-noise`: interacts with the `VRE` monitoring instance uploading, deleating and creating replication rules to test the status of the cluster. 
 3. `iam-rucio-sync`: image that runs asyncronisation script to keep the `accounts` table of the `Rucio` DB updated every time a new user registers with the `IAM ESCAPE` identity provider. 
 4. `iam-reana-sync`: adds any new user registered to the `IAM ESCAPE` to the `REANA` DB and grants access to the `VRE-REANA` instance.
diff --git a/containers/rucio-client/Dockerfile b/containers/rucio-client/Dockerfile
index 191ec5c0..83156b01 100644
--- a/containers/rucio-client/Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/rucio-client/Dockerfile
@@ -1,20 +1,46 @@
-# ARG TAG should be updated with the latest-1 version in case no tag is provided
-ARG TAG=v1.0.0-rc.1
+# VRE rucio-client image is the only which BASE is not the vre-base-ops image
+
+ARG BASETAG=release-1.30.0
 ARG BUILD_DATE
 
-FROM ghcr.io/vre-hub/vre-base-ops:${TAG}
+#FROM ghcr.io/vre-hub/vre-base-ops:${TAG}
+FROM rucio/rucio-clients:${BASETAG}
 LABEL maintainer="VRE Team @ CERN 22/23 - E. Garcia, E. Gazzarrini, D. Gosein"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source https://github.com/vre-hub/vre
 LABEL org.label-schema.build-date=${BUILD_DATE}
 
 USER root
-# install reana-client 
-RUN pip install reana-client==0.9.1
 
-# WORKDIR /home set on the base-ops image
-USER user
+RUN yum upgrade -y \
+    && yum clean all \
+    && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
+
+# EGI trust anchors
+RUN curl -Lo /etc/yum.repos.d/egi-trustanchors.repo https://repository.egi.eu/sw/production/cas/1/current/repo-files/egi-trustanchors.repo \
+    && yum update -y 
+
+RUN yum clean metadata
+RUN yum -y install wget ca-certificates ca-policy-egi-core
+
+# CERN cert 
+COPY ./linuxsupport7s-stable.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
+RUN yum install -y CERN-CA-certs
+
+# ESCAPE VOMS setup
+RUN mkdir -p /etc/vomses \
+    && wget https://indigo-iam.github.io/escape-docs/voms-config/voms-escape.cloud.cnaf.infn.it.vomses -O /etc/vomses/voms-escape.cloud.cnaf.infn.it.vomses
+RUN mkdir -p /etc/grid-security/vomsdir/escape \
+    && wget https://indigo-iam.github.io/escape-docs/voms-config/voms-escape.cloud.cnaf.infn.it.lsc -O /etc/grid-security/vomsdir/escape/voms-escape.cloud.cnaf.infn.it.lsc
+
 # ESCAPE Rucio setup
 ADD --chown=user:user rucio.cfg.escape.j2 /opt/user/rucio.cfg.j2
+
+# install reana-client 
 ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+RUN pip install --upgrade pip
+RUN pip install reana-client==0.9.2
+
+USER user
+WORKDIR /home/user
 
-ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]
+ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]
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