diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2c42844637ad28d5e850d45f84929f950c0efbb4..4d81a34983dd34733f27adc7bc9ec07433f72dc9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ full-deploy-production:
     - sleep 20 # apparently it may take some time until the volume is available to the OS
     - ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new airflow@$PRODUCTION_IP "sudo mkdir -p /persistent_data && sudo mount /dev/vdb1 /persistent_data"
     - until ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new airflow@$PRODUCTION_IP ls /finished_cloudinit >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 30; done # wait until cloudinit script is complete
+    - ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new airflow@$PRODUCTION_IP "sudo servcie docker restart" # to use the configured docker data path
     - ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new airflow@$PRODUCTION_IP "sudo /home/airflow/data-logistics-service/scripts/deployment.sh /home/airflow /home/airflow/data-logistics-service $PRODUCTION_DOMAIN $AIRFLOW__SECRETS__BACKEND $AIRFLOW__SECRETS__BACKEND_KWARGS"
     - echo "Done"