diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker.yml b/.github/workflows/docker.yml
index 8ef4ecbbcf..3934bb9ce7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+    tags:
+      # only target a single package tag to avoid running this task for every package on a version release
+      # in the metadata step, we parse out the specific version used in the tag (e.g. `2.0.0-next.5` and `next`)
+      - "@latticexyz/common@*"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs: