diff --git a/installer/Dockerfile b/installer/Dockerfile
index 90eeba54a..d5e7ef46b 100644
--- a/installer/Dockerfile
+++ b/installer/Dockerfile
@@ -52,12 +52,16 @@ ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
 
 ENV POSTGRES_USER root
 ENV POSTGRES_PASSWORD Password123@postgres
+ENV PIP_TARGET /opt/maxkb/site-packages
+ENV PYTHONPATH $PIP_TARGET:$PYTHONPATH
 
 RUN chmod 755 /opt/maxkb/app/installer/run-maxkb.sh && \
     cp -r /opt/maxkb/model/base/hub /opt/maxkb/model/tokenizer && \
     cp -f /opt/maxkb/app/installer/run-maxkb.sh /usr/bin/run-maxkb.sh && \
     cp -f /opt/maxkb/app/installer/init.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
 
+VOLUME [ "$PIP_TARGET" ]
+
 EXPOSE 8080
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["bash", "-c"]