diff --git a/playbookconfig/centos/playbookconfig.spec b/playbookconfig/centos/playbookconfig.spec
index f88dfa696..016407f11 100644
--- a/playbookconfig/centos/playbookconfig.spec
+++ b/playbookconfig/centos/playbookconfig.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ URL: unknown
 Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 Requires: ansible
+Requires: pigz
 Requires: pyparted
 Requires: python
 Requires: python2-netaddr
diff --git a/playbookconfig/debian/deb_folder/control b/playbookconfig/debian/deb_folder/control
index f55d30940..71a06472d 100644
--- a/playbookconfig/debian/deb_folder/control
+++ b/playbookconfig/debian/deb_folder/control
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Package: playbookconfig
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
  ansible,
+ pigz,
  python3,
  python3-netaddr,
  python3-ptyprocess,
diff --git a/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/prestage/prestage-images/files/gen-image-bundles.sh b/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/prestage/prestage-images/files/gen-image-bundles.sh
index a6dbac395..690adcbdc 100644
--- a/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/prestage/prestage-images/files/gen-image-bundles.sh
+++ b/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/prestage/prestage-images/files/gen-image-bundles.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ IMAGE_BUNDLES=""
 # Registry Images are loaded into this array
 declare -a IMAGE_ARRAY=()
 
+# Find out how many CPUs are assigned to platform
+NUM_OF_PLATFORM_CPU=$(cat /etc/platform/worker_reserved.conf | \
+grep PLATFORM_CPU_LIST | \
+perl -pe 's/(\d+)-(\d+)/join(",",$1..$2)/eg' | \
+grep -Eo '[0-9]+' | wc -l)
+
 LOG_FILE="/tmp/$(basename $0).log"
 
 function log {
@@ -39,7 +45,11 @@ function generate_image_bundle {
     log "Generating image bundle ${bundle_num}..."
     log "Image list: ${images}, list size: ${list_size}, \
     bundle: ${bundle_num}, output file: ${OUTPUT}"
-    docker save $(echo "${images}") | gzip > ${OUTPUT}
+    if (( NUM_OF_PLAT_CPU < 4)); then
+        docker save $(echo "${images}") | gzip > ${OUTPUT}
+    else
+        docker save $(echo "${images}") | pigz > ${OUTPUT}
+    fi
     IMAGE_BUNDLES=${IMAGE_BUNDLES}" "$(basename ${OUTPUT})
 }