diff --git a/playbooks/roles/nodepool-builder/templates/docker-compose.yaml.j2 b/playbooks/roles/nodepool-builder/templates/docker-compose.yaml.j2
index 5ac6ca8a40..ff54a23300 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/nodepool-builder/templates/docker-compose.yaml.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/nodepool-builder/templates/docker-compose.yaml.j2
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ services:
       - DEBUG=1
       - STATSD_HOST=graphite.opendev.org
       - STATSD_PORT=8125
+      # TODO: remove once we fix the arm64 images using dist-packages
+      # instead of site-packages
+      - PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python311.zip:/usr/local/lib/python3.11:/usr/local/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload:/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
 
     volumes:
       # nodepool config