diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e9470a728..26a238ec9 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -17,10 +17,22 @@
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 FROM openjdk:8 AS builder
 
-RUN mkdir fineract
-COPY . fineract
+# COPY . fineract is slow e.g. when using Podman instead of Docker (because it doesn't honor .dockerignore and copies all of .git/** into the container..), so let's explicitly list only what we need:
+COPY fineract-provider/src/main fineract/fineract-provider/src/main/
+COPY fineract-provider/config fineract/fineract-provider/config/
+COPY fineract-provider/gradle fineract/fineract-provider/gradle/
+COPY fineract-provider/properties fineract/fineract-provider/properties/
+COPY fineract-provider/[bd]*.gradle fineract/fineract-provider/
+COPY fineract-provider/gradle.properties fineract/fineract-provider/
+COPY fineract-provider/gradlew fineract/fineract-provider/
+COPY gradle* fineract/
+COPY settings.gradle fineract/
+COPY licenses fineract/licenses/
+COPY *LICENSE* fineract/
+COPY *NOTICE* fineract/
 
 WORKDIR fineract
+# RUN find .
 RUN ./gradlew clean -x rat -x test war
 
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