diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1eb0a2b..82af8df 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ COPY --from=build-hapi --chown=1001:1001 /tmp/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-starter/opente
 ENV ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
 
 ########### distroless brings focus on security and runs on plain spring boot - this is the default image
-FROM gcr.io/distroless/java17:nonroot as default
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/java17-debian11:nonroot as default
 # 65532 is the nonroot user's uid
 # used here instead of the name to allow Kubernetes to easily detect that the container
 # is running as a non-root (uid != 0) user.