diff --git a/docker/kafka-setup/Dockerfile b/docker/kafka-setup/Dockerfile
index e379ae4385..8cf9d0869d 100644
--- a/docker/kafka-setup/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/kafka-setup/Dockerfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARG MAVEN_REPO="https://repo1.maven.org/maven2"
 ARG SNAKEYAML_VERSION="2.0"
 
 RUN rm /usr/share/java/cp-base-new/snakeyaml-*.jar \
-    && wget -P /usr/share/java/cp-base-new $MAVEN_REPO/org/yaml/snakeyaml/$SNAKEYAML_VERSION/snakeyaml-$SNAKEYAML_VERSION.jar
+  && wget -P /usr/share/java/cp-base-new $MAVEN_REPO/org/yaml/snakeyaml/$SNAKEYAML_VERSION/snakeyaml-$SNAKEYAML_VERSION.jar
 
 # Based on https://github.com/blacktop's alpine kafka build
 FROM python:3-alpine
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ENV SCALA_VERSION 2.13
 ENV CUB_CLASSPATH='"/usr/share/java/cp-base-new/*"'
 
 # Confluent Docker Utils Version (Namely the tag or branch to grab from git to install)
-ARG PYTHON_CONFLUENT_DOCKER_UTILS_VERSION="v0.0.58"
+ARG PYTHON_CONFLUENT_DOCKER_UTILS_VERSION="v0.0.60"
 
 # This can be overriden for an offline/air-gapped builds
 ARG PYTHON_CONFLUENT_DOCKER_UTILS_INSTALL_SPEC="git+https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-docker-utils@${PYTHON_CONFLUENT_DOCKER_UTILS_VERSION}"
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ RUN mkdir -p /opt \
   && adduser -DH -s /sbin/nologin kafka \
   && chown -R kafka: /opt/kafka \
   && echo "===> Installing python packages ..."  \
-  && pip install --no-cache-dir jinja2 requests \
+  && pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip wheel setuptools \
+  && pip install jinja2 requests \
+  && pip install "Cython<3.0" "PyYAML<6" --no-build-isolation \
   && pip install --prefer-binary --prefix=/usr/local --upgrade "${PYTHON_CONFLUENT_DOCKER_UTILS_INSTALL_SPEC}" \
   && rm -rf /tmp/* \
   && apk del --purge .build-deps
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/generate_and_compare.sh b/docker/quickstart/generate_and_compare.sh
index e34abeb982..d568eb3a4c 100755
--- a/docker/quickstart/generate_and_compare.sh
+++ b/docker/quickstart/generate_and_compare.sh
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ set -euxo pipefail
 python3 -m venv venv
 source venv/bin/activate
 
+pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 python generate_docker_quickstart.py check-all
diff --git a/docker/quickstart/requirements.txt b/docker/quickstart/requirements.txt
index a20e96afc8..5392413311 100644
--- a/docker/quickstart/requirements.txt
+++ b/docker/quickstart/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-PyYAML==5.4.1
+PyYAML==6.0
 python-dotenv==0.17.0
 click
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion-modules/airflow-plugin/build.gradle b/metadata-ingestion-modules/airflow-plugin/build.gradle
index 9ab590b156..d895e29229 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion-modules/airflow-plugin/build.gradle
+++ b/metadata-ingestion-modules/airflow-plugin/build.gradle
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ task environmentSetup(type: Exec, dependsOn: checkPythonVersion) {
 task installPackage(type: Exec, dependsOn: environmentSetup) {
   inputs.file file('setup.py')
   outputs.dir("${venv_name}")
+  // Workaround for https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/601.
+  // See https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/601#issuecomment-1638509577.
+  // and https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/pull/8435.
+  commandLine 'bash', '-x', '-c', "${pip_install_command} install 'Cython<3.0' 'PyYAML<6' --no-build-isolation"
   commandLine 'bash', '-x', '-c', "${pip_install_command} -e ."
 }