diff --git a/tests/test-infrastructure/build-and-deploy.sh b/tests/test-infrastructure/build-and-deploy.sh
index 4c6e6e166..2244cb73a 100755
--- a/tests/test-infrastructure/build-and-deploy.sh
+++ b/tests/test-infrastructure/build-and-deploy.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ check_env
 # Build images
 ./build-images.sh
 function update-service(){
+  echo '> docker' service update --image "$2" "$1"
   docker service update --image "$2" "$1"
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/test-infrastructure/build-images.sh b/tests/test-infrastructure/build-images.sh
index e86103e7a..94f039e72 100755
--- a/tests/test-infrastructure/build-images.sh
+++ b/tests/test-infrastructure/build-images.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -e
+
+# Define a function to log and execute Docker commands
+docker_() {
+  local cmd="$*"
+  echo docker "$cmd"
+  docker $cmd 
+}
+
 export BASE_IMAGE_NAME="govtool"
+
 BASE_IMAGE_EXISTS=$(docker images -q "$BASE_IMAGE_NAME"/backend-base)
 
 if [ -z "$BASE_IMAGE_EXISTS" ]; then
   echo "Building the base image..."
-  docker build -t "$BASE_IMAGE_NAME"/backend-base -f ../../govtool/backend/Dockerfile.base ../../govtool/backend
+  docker_ build -t "$BASE_IMAGE_NAME"/backend-base -f ../../govtool/backend/Dockerfile.base ../../govtool/backend
 else
   echo "Base image already exists. Skipping build."
 fi
 
-docker compose -f ./docker-compose-govtool.yml build
-docker compose -f ./docker-compose-govaction-loader.yml build
-docker compose -f ./docker-compose-test.yml build
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+docker_ compose -f ./docker-compose-govtool.yml build
+docker_ compose -f ./docker-compose-govaction-loader.yml build
+docker_ compose -f ./docker-compose-test.yml build