diff --git a/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Dockerfile b/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Dockerfile
index aa5e0d486..c9f343130 100644
--- a/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Dockerfile
+++ b/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # This Dockerfile will build an image of a manual fluent-gcp scaler, allowing
 # customers to override our resource request/limit defaults.
 
-FROM gcr.io/google-containers/debian-base-amd64:1.0.0
+FROM gcr.io/google-containers/debian-base-amd64:v1.0.1
 
 # Download latest stable version of kubectl
 RUN \
diff --git a/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Makefile b/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Makefile
index 72b219a6e..016c25247 100644
--- a/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Makefile
+++ b/fluentd-gcp-scaler/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .PHONY:	build push
 
 PREFIX=staging-k8s.gcr.io
-TAG = 0.5.2
+TAG = 0.5.3
 
 build:
 	docker build --pull -t $(PREFIX)/fluentd-gcp-scaler:$(TAG) .