diff --git a/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image b/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image
index e394cc3a..c9e6907a 100755
--- a/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image
+++ b/elements/redhat-common/bin/extract-image
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # Intended to be called from the root.d cloud-image script as follows:
 # $TMP_HOOKS_PATH/bin/extract-image $BASE_IMAGE_FILE $BASE_IMAGE_TAR $IMAGE_LOCATION $CACHED_IMAGE
 
-
 set -eu
 set -o pipefail
 
@@ -64,6 +63,10 @@ function extract_image() {
             #      the device used for the image.
             ROOT_LOOPDEV=$(sudo kpartx -av $WORKING/$RAW_FILE | \
                 awk "/loop[0-9]+$ROOT_PARTITON/ {print \$3}")
+            # If running inside Docker, make our nodes manually, because udev will not be working.
+            if [ -f /.dockerenv ]; then
+                sudo dmsetup --noudevsync mknodes
+            fi
             if ! timeout 5 sh -c "while ! [ -e /dev/mapper/$ROOT_LOOPDEV ]; do sleep 1; done"; then
                 echo "Error: Could not find /dev/mapper/$ROOT_LOOPDEV"
                 exit 1
diff --git a/elements/rhel/root.d/10-rhel-cloud-image b/elements/rhel/root.d/10-rhel-cloud-image
index 2867e36a..862ee2da 100755
--- a/elements/rhel/root.d/10-rhel-cloud-image
+++ b/elements/rhel/root.d/10-rhel-cloud-image
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ else
         # NOTE: On RHEL, partprobe of /dev/loop0 does not create /dev/loop0p2,
         # while kpartx at least creates /dev/mapper/loop0p2.
         LOOPDEV=$(sudo kpartx -av $WORKING/$RAW_FILE | awk "/loop[0-9]+$MAGIC_BIT/ {print \$3}")
+        # If running inside Docker, make our nodes manually, because udev will not be working.
+        if [ -f /.dockerenv ]; then
+            sudo dmsetup --noudevsync mknodes
+        fi
         export LOOPDEV=$LOOPDEV
         echo "Loop device is set to: $LOOPDEV"
         if ! timeout 5 sh -c "while ! [ -e /dev/mapper/$LOOPDEV ]; do sleep 1; done"; then
diff --git a/elements/vm/block-device.d/10-partition b/elements/vm/block-device.d/10-partition
index 2608e004..33526161 100755
--- a/elements/vm/block-device.d/10-partition
+++ b/elements/vm/block-device.d/10-partition
@@ -22,8 +22,15 @@ sudo udevadm settle
 # If the partition isn't under /dev/loop*p1, create it with kpartx
 DM=
 if [ ! -e "${IMAGE_BLOCK_DEVICE}p1" ]; then
-    sudo kpartx -asv $TMP_IMAGE_PATH
     DM=${IMAGE_BLOCK_DEVICE/#\/dev/\/dev\/mapper}
+    # If running inside Docker, make our nodes manually, because udev will not be working.
+    if [ -f /.dockerenv ]; then
+        # kpartx cannot run in sync mode in docker.
+        sudo kpartx -av $TMP_IMAGE_PATH
+        sudo dmsetup --noudevsync mknodes
+    else
+        sudo kpartx -asv $TMP_IMAGE_PATH
+    fi
 fi
 
 if [ -n "$DM" ]; then
diff --git a/lib/common-functions b/lib/common-functions
index f00ae077..2f0346fa 100644
--- a/lib/common-functions
+++ b/lib/common-functions
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ function detach_loopback() {
     loopdev_name=$(echo $loopdev | sed 's/\/dev\///g')
     mapper_name=$(sudo dmsetup ls | grep $loopdev_name | awk '{ print $1 }')
     if [ "$mapper_name" ]; then
-        sudo dmsetup remove $mapper_name
+        sudo dmsetup --noudevsync remove $mapper_name
     fi
 
     # loopback dev may be tied up a bit by udev events triggered by partition events