diff --git a/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager.go b/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager.go
index 22ab14e3c8..f0bea0a2ce 100644
--- a/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager.go
+++ b/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager.go
@@ -151,10 +151,6 @@ const (
 
 	// Per https://github.com/hashicorp/waypoint/pull/1937/files
 	buildkitSessionSharedKey = ""
-
-	// NOTE: this regex only accounts for image builds with latest tag
-	// this will need to be changed whenever configuring labels on image builds is enabled
-	successfulImageBuildRegexStr = "{\"stream\":\"Successfully tagged (.+):latest\\\\n\"\\}"
 )
 
 type RestartPolicy string
@@ -1395,12 +1391,13 @@ func (manager *DockerManager) BuildImage(ctx context.Context, imageName string,
 	}
 	imageBuildResponseBodyStr := imageBuildResponseBuffer.String()
 
-	// ImageBuildResponse has no notion of success or error builds, so must manually parse the response body for error
-	isSuccessfulImageBuild, err := regexp.MatchString(successfulImageBuildRegexStr, imageBuildResponseBodyStr)
+	// ImageBuildResponse has no notion of success or error builds, so we check if the image is available locally and return the
+	// response body if it is not found
+	isImageAvailable, err := manager.isImageAvailableLocally(imageName)
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", stacktrace.NewError("An error occurred attempting to match successful image build regex '%v' with image build output:\n%v", successfulImageBuildRegexStr, imageBuildResponseBodyStr)
+		return "", stacktrace.Propagate(err, "Failed to check if '%v' was built and available locally.", imageName)
 	}
-	if !isSuccessfulImageBuild {
+	if !isImageAvailable {
 		return "", stacktrace.NewError("Image build for '%s' failed with the following output:\n%v", imageName, imageBuildResponseBodyStr)
 	}
 
diff --git a/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager_test.go b/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager_test.go
index 775d615333..a31c615687 100644
--- a/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager_test.go
+++ b/container-engine-lib/lib/backend_impls/docker/docker_manager/docker_manager_test.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package docker_manager
 
 import (
-	"regexp"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/docker/docker/api/types"
@@ -183,39 +182,3 @@ func TestBuildImage(t *testing.T) {
 	//_, err = dockerManager.BuildImage(ctx, "foobar", imageBuildSpec)
 	//require.NoError(t, err)
 }
-
-func TestSuccessfulImageBuildRegex(t *testing.T) {
-	imageBuildResponseBodyStr := `
-		{"id":"moby.buildkit.trace","aux":"Cm8KR3NoYTI1Njo3ZWFiZDFlODNlMWUwZmI1MDNjOWQ0MjdiNzFlNTQxY2VjODFkNDFiN2I0Mjk3NjhhMjdhZmYyM2VhNzRkMDZhGiRbaW50ZXJuYWxdIGxvYWQgcmVtb3RlIGJ1aWxkIGNvbnRleHQ="}
-		{"id":"moby.buildkit.trace","aux":"Cn0KR3NoYTI1Njo3ZWFiZDFlODNlMWUwZmI1MDNjOWQ0MjdiNzFlNTQxY2VjODFkNDFiN2I0Mjk3NjhhMjdhZmYyM2VhNzRkMDZhGiRbaW50ZXJuYWxdIGxvYWQgcmVtb3RlIGJ1aWxkIGNvbnRleHQqDAiF/ferBhCLzIGyAg=="}
-		{"stream":"Successfully tagged foobar:latest\n"}
-	`
-
-	successfulImageBuild, err := regexp.MatchString(successfulImageBuildRegexStr, imageBuildResponseBodyStr)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.True(t, successfulImageBuild)
-}
-
-func TestSuccessfulImageBuildRegexWithLongerImageName(t *testing.T) {
-	imageBuildResponseBodyStr := `
-		{"id":"moby.buildkit.trace","aux":"Cm8KR3NoYTI1Njo3ZWFiZDFlODNlMWUwZmI1MDNjOWQ0MjdiNzFlNTQxY2VjODFkNDFiN2I0Mjk3NjhhMjdhZmYyM2VhNzRkMDZhGiRbaW50ZXJuYWxdIGxvYWQgcmVtb3RlIGJ1aWxkIGNvbnRleHQ="}
-		{"id":"moby.buildkit.trace","aux":"Cn0KR3NoYTI1Njo3ZWFiZDFlODNlMWUwZmI1MDNjOWQ0MjdiNzFlNTQxY2VjODFkNDFiN2I0Mjk3NjhhMjdhZmYyM2VhNzRkMDZhGiRbaW50ZXJuYWxdIGxvYWQgcmVtb3RlIGJ1aWxkIGNvbnRleHQqDAiF/ferBhCLzIGyAg=="}
-		{"stream":"Successfully tagged kurtosis/backend-server:latest\n"}
-	`
-
-	successfulImageBuild, err := regexp.MatchString(successfulImageBuildRegexStr, imageBuildResponseBodyStr)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.True(t, successfulImageBuild)
-}
-
-func TestSuccessfulImageBuildRegexFailure(t *testing.T) {
-	imageBuildResponseBodyStr := `
-		{"id":"moby.buildkit.trace","aux":"Cm8KR3NoYTI1Njo4ZDZjNTBkZDU3ZGM1N2Y3YWFhN2ZkYTQ5NjFlMDc3YjYyYjJkMTIxYmRlM2RmZmEzYWI5MDJkOGI4NDc3NDE3GiRbaW50ZXJuYWxdIGxvYWQgcmVtb3RlIGJ1aWxkIGNvbnRleHQ="}
-		{"id":"moby.buildkit.trace","aux":"Cn0KR3NoYTI1Njo4ZDZjNTBkZDU3ZGM1N2Y3YWFhN2ZkYTQ5NjFlMDc3YjYyYjJkMTIxYmRlM2RmZmEzYWI5MDJkOGI4NDc3NDE3GiRbaW50ZXJuYWxdIGxvYWQgcmVtb3RlIGJ1aWxkIGNvbnRleHQqDAiu/PerBhCYsc3wAQ=="}
-		{"errorDetail":{"message":"failed to compute cache key: \"/kurtosis-cloud-admin-backend-server\" not found: not found"},"error":"failed to compute cache key: \"/kurtosis-cloud-admin-backend-server\" not found: not found"}
-	`
-
-	successfulImageBuild, err := regexp.MatchString(successfulImageBuildRegexStr, imageBuildResponseBodyStr)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.False(t, successfulImageBuild)
-}
diff --git a/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_instruction/add_service/add_service.go b/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_instruction/add_service/add_service.go
index 353353c458..4a1afa5bd1 100644
--- a/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_instruction/add_service/add_service.go
+++ b/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_instruction/add_service/add_service.go
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ const (
 
 	ServiceNameArgName   = "name"
 	ServiceConfigArgName = "config"
-
-	testRootModuleLocator = "./"
 )
 
 func NewAddService(
diff --git a/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_types/service_config/service_config.go b/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_types/service_config/service_config.go
index ab4ed98fed..138ec01d18 100644
--- a/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_types/service_config/service_config.go
+++ b/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/kurtosis_types/service_config/service_config.go
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/starlark_warning"
 	"github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/startosis_errors"
 	"github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/core/server/api_container/server/startosis_engine/startosis_packages"
-	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"go.starlark.net/starlark"
 	"math"
 	"path"
@@ -598,7 +597,6 @@ func convertImage(
 		if interpretationErr != nil {
 			return "", nil, interpretationErr
 		}
-		logrus.Debugf("CONVERT IMAGE ATTRIBUTE: %v %v", imageName, imageBuildSpec)
 		return imageName, imageBuildSpec, nil
 	} else {
 		imageName, interpretationErr := kurtosis_types.SafeCastToString(image, ImageAttr)