diff --git a/bazel/external/wee8.genrule_cmd b/bazel/external/wee8.genrule_cmd
index e93bc8d685..3477ebb671 100644
--- a/bazel/external/wee8.genrule_cmd
+++ b/bazel/external/wee8.genrule_cmd
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ pushd $$ROOT/wee8
 rm -rf out/wee8
 
 # Build wee8.
-AR=ar NM=nm third_party/depot_tools/gn gen out/wee8 --args='v8_use_external_startup_data=false v8_enable_i18n_support=false v8_enable_gdbjit=false v8_expose_symbols=true is_component_build=false is_debug=false clang_use_chrome_plugins=false use_sysroot=false use_custom_libcxx=false custom_toolchain="//build/toolchain/linux/unbundle:default"'
+AR=ar NM=nm third_party/depot_tools/gn gen out/wee8 --args='v8_use_external_startup_data=false v8_enable_i18n_support=false v8_enable_gdbjit=false v8_expose_symbols=true is_component_build=false is_debug=false clang_use_chrome_plugins=false use_sysroot=false use_custom_libcxx=false use_glib=false custom_toolchain="//build/toolchain/linux/unbundle:default"'
 third_party/depot_tools/ninja -C out/wee8 wee8
 
 # Move compiled library to the expected destinations.
diff --git a/ci/build_container/build_container_centos.sh b/ci/build_container/build_container_centos.sh
index 3e64e9f543..85ea9a6513 100755
--- a/ci/build_container/build_container_centos.sh
+++ b/ci/build_container/build_container_centos.sh
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ set -e
 yum install -y centos-release-scl epel-release
 yum update -y
 yum install -y devtoolset-7-gcc devtoolset-7-gcc-c++ devtoolset-7-binutils java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless rsync \
-    rh-git218 wget unzip which make patch devtoolset-7-libatomic-devel openssl python27 \
-    libtool autoconf tcpdump glib2-devel
+    rh-git218 wget unzip which make patch ninja-build devtoolset-7-libatomic-devel openssl python27 \
+    libtool autoconf tcpdump
+
+ln -s /usr/bin/ninja-build /usr/bin/ninja
 
 # SLES 11 has older glibc than CentOS 7, so pre-built binary for it works on CentOS 7
 LLVM_VERSION=8.0.0
diff --git a/ci/build_container/build_container_common.sh b/ci/build_container/build_container_common.sh
index b527d75057..9c0984e62a 100755
--- a/ci/build_container/build_container_common.sh
+++ b/ci/build_container/build_container_common.sh
@@ -21,12 +21,4 @@ if [[ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64" ]]; then
   curl -sLo cmake-"$VERSION".tar.gz https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v"$VERSION"/cmake-"$VERSION"-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
     && echo "$SHA256" cmake-"$VERSION".tar.gz | sha256sum --check \
     && tar -zxf cmake-"$VERSION".tar.gz -C /usr --strip-components=1
-
-  # ninja
-  VERSION=1.8.2
-  SHA256=d2fea9ff33b3ef353161ed906f260d565ca55b8ca0568fa07b1d2cab90a84a07
-  curl -sLo ninja-"$VERSION".zip https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v"$VERSION"/ninja-linux.zip \
-    && echo "$SHA256" ninja-"$VERSION".zip | sha256sum --check \
-    && unzip ninja-"$VERSION".zip \
-    && mv ninja /usr/bin
 fi
diff --git a/ci/build_container/build_container_ubuntu.sh b/ci/build_container/build_container_ubuntu.sh
index 91a8112a12..c2f7369acc 100755
--- a/ci/build_container/build_container_ubuntu.sh
+++ b/ci/build_container/build_container_ubuntu.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ update-alternatives --config gcc
 update-alternatives --config g++
 
 apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl wget make git python python-pip python-setuptools python3 python3-pip \
-  unzip bc libtool automake zip time gdb strace tshark tcpdump patch xz-utils rsync ssh-client libglib2.0-dev
+  unzip bc libtool ninja-build automake zip time gdb strace tshark tcpdump patch xz-utils rsync ssh-client
 
 # clang 8.
 case $ARCH in