diff --git a/core/Dockerfile.distroless b/core/Dockerfile.distroless
index eae81b3e9..ff3240d43 100644
--- a/core/Dockerfile.distroless
+++ b/core/Dockerfile.distroless
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ LABEL maintainer="SoftInstigate <info@softinstigate.com>"
 
 WORKDIR /opt/restheart
 COPY target/restheart.jar ./restheart.jar
-COPY target/lib/* lib/
-COPY target/plugins/* plugins/
-COPY target/plugins/lib/* plugins/lib/
+COPY target/lib/*.jar lib/
+COPY target/plugins/*.jar plugins/
+COPY target/plugins/lib/*.jar plugins/lib/
 
 ENV RHO='/mclient/connection-string->"mongodb://host.docker.internal";/http-listener/host->"0.0.0.0"'
 ENTRYPOINT [ "java", "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8", "-server", "-jar", "restheart.jar" ]
diff --git a/core/Dockerfile.graalvm b/core/Dockerfile.graalvm
index 1ee0c4b3d..386483073 100644
--- a/core/Dockerfile.graalvm
+++ b/core/Dockerfile.graalvm
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ LABEL maintainer="SoftInstigate <info@softinstigate.com>"
 WORKDIR /opt/restheart
 COPY bin/entrypoint-graalvm.sh entrypoint.sh
 COPY target/restheart.jar ./restheart.jar
-COPY target/lib/* lib/
-COPY target/plugins/* plugins/
-COPY target/plugins/lib/* plugins/lib/
+COPY target/lib/*.jar lib/
+COPY target/plugins/*.jar plugins/
+COPY target/plugins/lib/*.jar plugins/lib/
 
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-i", "-c"]