diff --git a/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/Dockerfile b/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/Dockerfile
index 04a994ee477fa8787196254e4a355b4628c90026..cc73faaa30de881eb7cb90b92918d068a2eb50ea 100644
--- a/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/Dockerfile
+++ b/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_x86_64
 
 ENV GOPATH /tmp
 
-RUN yum update -y && yum install -y golang wget zlib-devel
+RUN yum update -y && yum install -y golang wget zlib-devel libnl3-devel
 
 ADD install_curl.sh install_curl.sh
 RUN ./install_curl.sh /curl
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ RUN ./install_curl.sh /curl
 ADD install_cmake.sh install_cmake.sh
 RUN ./install_cmake.sh
 
+ADD install_libfabric.sh install_libfabric.sh
+RUN ./install_libfabric.sh
+
 RUN chmod og+rwX -R /opt
 
 ADD build.sh /bin/build.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/build.sh b/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/build.sh
index 82ed25026a64e04bda24c0a7dec88415d2047904..647c7c4d13128d05c8f0d84d61d33319c2b97c6e 100755
--- a/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/build.sh
+++ b/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/build.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ for python_path in /opt/python/cp{27,35,36,37,38}*; do
     echo "building wheel for python_version=$python_version with numpy_version=$numpy_version"
 
     cd /asapo/build
-    cmake -DENABLE_LIBFABRIC=off -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -DLIBCURL_DIR=/curl -DPython_EXECUTABLE=$python -DNUMPY_VERSION=$numpy_version ..
+    cmake -DENABLE_LIBFABRIC=on -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -DLIBCURL_DIR=/curl -DPython_EXECUTABLE=$python -DNUMPY_VERSION=$numpy_version ..
     cd consumer \
         && $pip install -r api/python/dev-requirements.txt\
         && make \
diff --git a/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/install_libfabric.sh b/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/install_libfabric.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a870810a1effffc7a3138b3ce973ddf982aefbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/build_env/manylinux2010/install_libfabric.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# rdma-core
+
+wget https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/releases/download/v31.0/rdma-core-31.0.tar.gz
+
+tar -xvf rdma-core-31.0.tar.gz
+cd rdma-core-31.0
+bash build.sh
+cd ..
+rm -f rdma-core-31.0.tar.gz
+# rdma-core cannot be installed and some files in build are just symlinks
+# therefore the folder is used as is and cannot be removed
+
+# libfabric
+
+wget https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/releases/download/v1.11.0/libfabric-1.11.0.tar.bz2
+
+tar -xvf libfabric-1.11.0.tar.bz2
+cd libfabric-1.11.0
+./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/rdma-core-31.0/build/include LDFLAGS=-L/rdma-core-31.0/build/lib
+make LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/rdma-core-31.0/build/lib  # not sure why the flag is necessary
+make install
+cd ..
+rm -f libfabric-1.11.0.tar.bz2
+rm -rf libfabric-1.11.0