diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
index 4f590139c7..012bc91c5d 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ jobs:
     clean: true
     submodules: true
   - 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_and_install_module.sh b/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
index 493a2f04e2..35c519634c 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