diff --git a/src/pathcomp/backend/Dockerfile b/src/pathcomp/backend/Dockerfile
index c131f8b6426feaa256bb1a249b55ea5808104e6c..869e4b64938c828af600b1e478b15278ddbfc981 100644
--- a/src/pathcomp/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/pathcomp/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ FROM ubuntu:20.04 AS builder
 ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 # Install build software
-RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install build-essential gcovr libglib2.0-dev -y
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install build-essential curl gcovr libglib2.0-dev -y
 
 # mkdir
 RUN mkdir -p /var/teraflow
diff --git a/src/pathcomp/frontend/Config.py b/src/pathcomp/frontend/Config.py
index af7c277c553157a6d058815d7e6cb11cba5d169d..75f910e36f92ca008b318cfc61718ae81f94214c 100644
--- a/src/pathcomp/frontend/Config.py
+++ b/src/pathcomp/frontend/Config.py
@@ -12,6 +12,17 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-BACKEND_URL  = 'http://{:s}:{:d}/pathComp/api/v1/compRoute'
-BACKEND_HOST = '172.28.0.2'
-BACKEND_PORT = 8081
+import os
+
+DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_SCHEME  = 'http'
+DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_HOST    = '127.0.0.1'
+DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_PORT    = 8081
+DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_BASEURL = '/pathComp/api/v1/compRoute'
+
+PATHCOMP_BACKEND_SCHEME  = str(os.environ.get('PATHCOMP_BACKEND_SCHEME',  DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_SCHEME ))
+PATHCOMP_BACKEND_HOST    = str(os.environ.get('PATHCOMP_BACKEND_HOST',    DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_HOST   ))
+PATHCOMP_BACKEND_PORT    = int(os.environ.get('PATHCOMP_BACKEND_PORT',    DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_PORT   ))
+PATHCOMP_BACKEND_BASEURL = str(os.environ.get('PATHCOMP_BACKEND_BASEURL', DEFAULT_PATHCOMP_BACKEND_BASEURL))
+
+BACKEND_URL = '{:s}://{:s}:{:d}{:s}'.format(
+    PATHCOMP_BACKEND_SCHEME, PATHCOMP_BACKEND_HOST, PATHCOMP_BACKEND_PORT, PATHCOMP_BACKEND_BASEURL)
diff --git a/src/pathcomp/frontend/service/PathCompServiceServicerImpl.py b/src/pathcomp/frontend/service/PathCompServiceServicerImpl.py
index 3cf1121915d834b28bdec00851975397a9d82df5..b1da515631320d7d77dee073e8985a8d63bd3c30 100644
--- a/src/pathcomp/frontend/service/PathCompServiceServicerImpl.py
+++ b/src/pathcomp/frontend/service/PathCompServiceServicerImpl.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from common.proto.pathcomp_pb2_grpc import PathCompServiceServicer
 from common.rpc_method_wrapper.Decorator import create_metrics, safe_and_metered_rpc_method
 from common.tools.grpc.Tools import grpc_message_to_json_string
 from context.client.ContextClient import ContextClient
-from pathcomp.frontend.Config import BACKEND_HOST, BACKEND_PORT, BACKEND_URL
+from pathcomp.frontend.Config import BACKEND_URL
 from pathcomp.frontend.service.tools.ComposeRequest import compose_device, compose_link, compose_service
 #from pathcomp.frontend.service.tools.Constants import CapacityUnit
 
@@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ class PathCompServiceServicerImpl(PathCompServiceServicer):
 
     @safe_and_metered_rpc_method(METRICS, LOGGER)
     def Compute(self, request : PathCompRequest, context : grpc.ServicerContext) -> PathCompReply:
-        import os
-        LOGGER.info('os.environ={:s}'.format(str(os.environ)))
-
         LOGGER.info('[Compute] begin ; request = {:s}'.format(grpc_message_to_json_string(request)))
 
         algorithm = request.WhichOneof('algorithm')
@@ -105,8 +102,7 @@ class PathCompServiceServicerImpl(PathCompServiceServicer):
         #with open('pc-req.json', 'w', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
         #    f.write(json.dumps(request, sort_keys=True, indent=4))
 
-        backend_url = BACKEND_URL.format(BACKEND_HOST, BACKEND_PORT)
-        reply = requests.post(backend_url, json=request)
+        reply = requests.post(BACKEND_URL, json=request)
         if reply.status_code not in {requests.codes.ok}:
             raise Exception('Backend error({:s}) for request({:s})'.format(
                 str(reply.content.decode('UTF-8')), json.dumps(request, sort_keys=True)))