diff --git a/Dockerfile.external b/Dockerfile.external
index 247b54ea..824202f5 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.external
+++ b/Dockerfile.external
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ ARG POETRY_EXTRAS="ui vector-stores-qdrant llms-ollama embeddings-ollama"
 RUN poetry install --extras "${POETRY_EXTRAS}"
 
 FROM base as app
-
-ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
-ENV PORT=8080
+ENV \
+  PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
+  PORT=8080 \
+  PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/home/worker/app/private_gpt/"
 EXPOSE 8080
 
 # Prepare a non-root user
@@ -38,7 +39,5 @@ COPY --chown=worker *.yaml .
 COPY --chown=worker scripts/ scripts
 COPY --chown=worker Makefile .
 
-ENV PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/home/worker/app/private_gpt/"
-
 USER worker
 ENTRYPOINT python -m private_gpt
diff --git a/Dockerfile.local b/Dockerfile.local
index 4ba5ed4f..a4a600ae 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.local
+++ b/Dockerfile.local
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ RUN poetry install --extras "${POETRY_EXTRAS}"
 
 FROM base as app
 
-ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
-ENV PORT=8080
+ENV \
+  PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
+  PORT=8080 \
+  PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/home/worker/app/private_gpt/"
 EXPOSE 8080
 
 # Prepare a non-root user
@@ -48,7 +50,5 @@ COPY --chown=worker *.yaml ./
 COPY --chown=worker scripts/ scripts
 COPY --chown=worker Makefile .
 
-ENV PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/home/worker/app/private_gpt/"
-
 USER worker
 ENTRYPOINT python -m private_gpt
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