diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a6d3bb70d..455a68a95 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ build-ui: local-registry docker-ui ## Build the leapfrogai_ui container and Zarf
 
 docker-llama-cpp-python: sdk-wheel
 	## Build the image (and tag it for the local registry)
-	docker build  --platform=linux/${ARCH} --build-arg LOCAL_VERSION=${LOCAL_VERSION} -t ghcr.io/defenseunicorns/leapfrogai/llama-cpp-python:${LOCAL_VERSION} -f packages/llama-cpp-python/Dockerfile .
+	docker build ${DOCKER_FLAGS} --platform=linux/${ARCH} --build-arg LOCAL_VERSION=${LOCAL_VERSION} -t ghcr.io/defenseunicorns/leapfrogai/llama-cpp-python:${LOCAL_VERSION} -f packages/llama-cpp-python/Dockerfile .
 	docker tag ghcr.io/defenseunicorns/leapfrogai/llama-cpp-python:${LOCAL_VERSION} localhost:${REG_PORT}/defenseunicorns/leapfrogai/llama-cpp-python:${LOCAL_VERSION}
 
 build-llama-cpp-python: local-registry docker-llama-cpp-python ## Build the llama-cpp-python (cpu) container and Zarf package