diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml
index 96c4c9fe3..c6d190db7 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ jobs:
       git status
     displayName: Set up sonic-swss branch
   - script: |
+      set -ex
+      sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -y libhiredis0.14 libhiredis-dev
       sudo apt-get install -y libzmq5 libzmq3-dev
       sudo apt-get install -qq -y \
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
index c6b6fbaa9..ea3055a19 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ jobs:
     clean: true
     submodules: true
   - script: |
+      set -ex
+      sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -qq -y \
         qtbase5-dev \
         libdbus-glib-1-2 \
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh b/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
index 493a2f04e..35c519634 100755
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ function build_and_install_kmodule()
     SUBLEVEL=$(echo $KERNEL_MAINVERSION | cut -d. -f3)
 
     # Install the required debian packages to build the kernel modules
+    apt-get update
     apt-get install -y build-essential linux-headers-${KERNEL_RELEASE} autoconf pkg-config fakeroot
     apt-get install -y flex bison libssl-dev libelf-dev
     apt-get install -y libnl-route-3-200 libnl-route-3-dev libnl-cli-3-200 libnl-cli-3-dev libnl-3-dev
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
index 1447c34e5..d28791c32 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ jobs:
       set -ex
       sudo sonic-sairedis/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
 
+      sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -y libhiredis0.14
       sudo dpkg -i --force-confask,confnew $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libswsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb || apt-get install -f
       sudo dpkg -i $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/python3-swsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb