diff --git a/openstack/octavia-tempest-plugin/octavia-tempest-plugin.spec.j2 b/openstack/octavia-tempest-plugin/octavia-tempest-plugin.spec.j2
index 50acf395a..08222f129 100644
--- a/openstack/octavia-tempest-plugin/octavia-tempest-plugin.spec.j2
+++ b/openstack/octavia-tempest-plugin/octavia-tempest-plugin.spec.j2
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ pushd octavia_tempest_plugin/contrib/httpd
 # we don't want to ship a binary blob that we didn't build ourself
 rm -f httpd.bin
 %if 0%{?suse_version}
-go build -ldflags '-linkmode=external' -o httpd.bin httpd.go
+CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -ldflags '-s -w -extldflags -static' -o httpd.bin httpd.go
 %else
 # NOTE(jpena): the CentOS 8 build fails without this flag
 go build -ldflags '-linkmode=external -compressdwarf=false' -o httpd.bin httpd.go