diff --git a/eng/Version.Details.xml b/eng/Version.Details.xml
index bf01b0141..fd2834650 100644
--- a/eng/Version.Details.xml
+++ b/eng/Version.Details.xml
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@
       <Sha>c3ad00ae84489071080a606f6a8e43c9a91a5cc2</Sha>
       <SourceBuildTarball RepoName="deployment-tools" ManagedOnly="true" />
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.SourceBuild.Intermediate.source-build-externals" Version="8.0.0-alpha.1.22580.1">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.SourceBuild.Intermediate.source-build-externals" Version="8.0.0-alpha.1.22601.1">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/source-build-externals</Uri>
-      <Sha>fd96997313778d5e9750d55cbb580e05bcc38465</Sha>
+      <Sha>82852951f9148c22e2aaeb0b1a7c3928401489db</Sha>
       <SourceBuild RepoName="source-build-externals" ManagedOnly="true" />
     </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.SourceBuild.Intermediate.symreader" Version="1.4.0-beta2-21475-02">
diff --git a/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/eng/bootstrap/README.template.md b/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/eng/bootstrap/README.template.md
index 3393b82b3..d092f1f4f 100644
--- a/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/eng/bootstrap/README.template.md
+++ b/src/SourceBuild/tarball/content/eng/bootstrap/README.template.md
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ For the latest information about Source-Build support, please watch for announce
 ### Prerequisites
 
 The dependencies for building .NET from source can be found [here](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/workflow/requirements/linux-requirements.md).
+In case you don't want to / cannot prepare your environment per the requirements, consider [using Docker](#building-using-docker).
 
 ### Building
 
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ The dependencies for building .NET from source can be found [here](https://githu
 
     ```bash
     mkdir -p $HOME/dotnet
-    tar zxf artifacts/x64/Release/dotnet-sdk-8.0.100-your-RID.tar.gz -C $HOME/dotnet
+    tar zxf artifacts/[your-arch]/Release/dotnet-sdk-8.0.100-[your-RID].tar.gz -C $HOME/dotnet
     ln -s $HOME/dotnet/dotnet /usr/bin/dotnet
     ```
     
@@ -120,6 +121,20 @@ The dependencies for building .NET from source can be found [here](https://githu
     dotnet --info
     ```
 
+### Building using Docker
+
+You can also build the repository using a Docker image which has the required prerequisites inside.
+The example below creates a Docker volume named `vmr` and clones and builds the VMR there.
+
+```sh
+docker run --rm -it -v vmr:/vmr -w /vmr mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet-buildtools/prereqs:centos-stream8
+git clone https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet .
+./prep.sh && ./build.sh --online
+mkdir -p $HOME/.dotnet
+tar -zxf artifacts/x64/Release/dotnet-sdk-8.0.100-centos.8-x64.tar.gz -C $HOME/.dotnet
+ln -s $HOME/.dotnet/dotnet /usr/bin/dotnet
+```
+
 ## List of components
 
 To enable full offline source-building of the VMR, we have no other choice than to synchronize all the necessary code into the VMR. This also includes any code referenced via git submodules. More details on why and how this is done can be found here: