diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7228a4a0..8c68c522 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Here's how to get started with your code contribution:
 > Note: this clones and builds the docker containers specified in `docker-compose.yml`, to understand more about
 > the infrastructure that will be started you can check the `docker-compose.yml`. You also have the possiblity
 > to specify the redis image that will be pulled with the env variable `CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE`.
-> By default the docker image that will be pulled and started is `redislabs/client-libs-test:rs-7.4.0-v2`.
+> By default the docker image that will be pulled and started is `redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre`.
 > If you want to test with newer Redis version, using a newer version of `redislabs/client-libs-test` should work out of the box.
 
 4.  While developing, make sure the tests pass by running `make test` (if you have the docker containers running, `make test.ci` may be sufficient).
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 655f16f4..0252a7e2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 GO_MOD_DIRS := $(shell find . -type f -name 'go.mod' -exec dirname {} \; | sort)
+REDIS_VERSION ?= 8.2
+RE_CLUSTER ?= false
+RCE_DOCKER ?= true
+CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE ?= redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre
 
 docker.start:
+	export RE_CLUSTER=$(RE_CLUSTER) && \
+	export RCE_DOCKER=$(RCE_DOCKER) && \
+	export REDIS_VERSION=$(REDIS_VERSION) && \
+	export CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE=$(CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE) && \
 	docker compose --profile all up -d --quiet-pull
 
 docker.stop:
@@ -27,6 +35,9 @@ test.ci:
 	set -e; for dir in $(GO_MOD_DIRS); do \
 	  echo "go test in $${dir}"; \
 	  (cd "$${dir}" && \
+	    export RE_CLUSTER=$(RE_CLUSTER) && \
+	    export RCE_DOCKER=$(RCE_DOCKER) && \
+	    export REDIS_VERSION=$(REDIS_VERSION) && \
 	    go mod tidy -compat=1.18 && \
 	    go vet && \
 	    go test -v -coverprofile=coverage.txt -covermode=atomic ./... -race -skip Example); \
@@ -38,6 +49,9 @@ test.ci.skip-vectorsets:
 	set -e; for dir in $(GO_MOD_DIRS); do \
 	  echo "go test in $${dir} (skipping vector sets)"; \
 	  (cd "$${dir}" && \
+	    export RE_CLUSTER=$(RE_CLUSTER) && \
+	    export RCE_DOCKER=$(RCE_DOCKER) && \
+	    export REDIS_VERSION=$(REDIS_VERSION) && \
 	    go mod tidy -compat=1.18 && \
 	    go vet && \
 	    go test -v -coverprofile=coverage.txt -covermode=atomic ./... -race \
@@ -47,11 +61,17 @@ test.ci.skip-vectorsets:
 	go vet -vettool ./internal/customvet/customvet
 
 bench:
+	export RE_CLUSTER=$(RE_CLUSTER) && \
+	export RCE_DOCKER=$(RCE_DOCKER) && \
+	export REDIS_VERSION=$(REDIS_VERSION) && \
 	go test ./... -test.run=NONE -test.bench=. -test.benchmem -skip Example
 
 .PHONY: all test test.ci test.ci.skip-vectorsets bench fmt
 
 build:
+	export RE_CLUSTER=$(RE_CLUSTER) && \
+	export RCE_DOCKER=$(RCE_DOCKER) && \
+	export REDIS_VERSION=$(REDIS_VERSION) && \
 	go build .
 
 fmt:
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 3d4347bf..cc864d85 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 services:
   redis:
-    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:rs-7.4.0-v2}
+    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre}
     platform: linux/amd64
     container_name: redis-standalone
     environment:
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ services:
       - all
 
   osscluster:
-    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:rs-7.4.0-v2}
+    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre}
     platform: linux/amd64
     container_name: redis-osscluster
     environment:
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ services:
       - all
 
   sentinel-cluster:
-    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:rs-7.4.0-v2}
+    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre}
     platform: linux/amd64
     container_name: redis-sentinel-cluster
     network_mode: "host"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ services:
       - all
 
   sentinel:
-    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:rs-7.4.0-v2}
+    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre}
     platform: linux/amd64
     container_name: redis-sentinel
     depends_on:
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ services:
       - all
 
   ring-cluster:
-    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:rs-7.4.0-v2}
+    image: ${CLIENT_LIBS_TEST_IMAGE:-redislabs/client-libs-test:8.2.1-pre}
     platform: linux/amd64
     container_name: redis-ring-cluster
     environment:
diff --git a/main_test.go b/main_test.go
index 29e6014b..150d16f8 100644
--- a/main_test.go
+++ b/main_test.go
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ var RCEDocker = false
 // Notes version of redis we are executing tests against.
 // This can be used before we change the bsm fork of ginkgo for one,
 // which have support for label sets, so we can filter tests per redis version.
-var RedisVersion float64 = 7.2
+var RedisVersion float64 = 8.2
 
 func SkipBeforeRedisVersion(version float64, msg string) {
 	if RedisVersion < version {
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ var _ = BeforeSuite(func() {
 	RedisVersion, _ = strconv.ParseFloat(strings.Trim(os.Getenv("REDIS_VERSION"), "\""), 64)
 
 	if RedisVersion == 0 {
-		RedisVersion = 7.2
+		RedisVersion = 8.2
 	}
 
 	fmt.Printf("RECluster: %v\n", RECluster)