diff --git a/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/Dockerfile.ironic b/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/Dockerfile.ironic
index 9afd8ad3..22eab823 100644
--- a/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/Dockerfile.ironic
+++ b/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/Dockerfile.ironic
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 ARG BASE=ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/argo-python3.11.8-alpine3.19:latest
 
 FROM ${BASE} as builder
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apk apk add --virtual build-deps gcc python3-dev musl-dev linux-headers
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/.pip pip install python-ironicclient==5.5.0 pydantic==2.8.0
-
-FROM ${BASE} as prod
 ARG APP_PATH=/app
 ARG APP_USER=appuser
 ARG APP_GROUP=appgroup
 ARG APP_USER_UID=1000
 ARG APP_GROUP_GID=1000
+COPY --chown=${APP_USER}:${APP_GROUP} containers/requirements.txt /app
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apk apk add --virtual build-deps gcc python3-dev musl-dev linux-headers
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/.pip pip install --no-cache-dir -r /app/requirements.txt
+
+FROM ${BASE} as prod
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="Python 3.11 image with Ironic Client"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.base.name="ghcr.io/rackerlabs/understack/argo-ironic-client-python3.11.8"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/rackerlabs/understack
diff --git a/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/requirements.txt b/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e5190ff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/argo-workflows/ironic-nautobot-sync/containers/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+python-ironicclient==5.5.0
+pydantic==2.8.0
+pynautobot==2.2.0