diff --git a/deployment/cloudinit.yml b/deployment/cloudinit.yml
index 47f22cdcb9cc53ea1db19fd576623c47cb256033..3ddf35321301258d9362e2aa3115ce9ba3421110 100644
--- a/deployment/cloudinit.yml
+++ b/deployment/cloudinit.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ write_files:
       {
         "data-root": "/persistent_data/docker_volumes"
       }
-  - path: /home/model/env
+  - path: /env
     owner: root
     content: |
       MYSQL_DATABASE=mlflow
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ runcmd:
   - echo "Current user is $(whoami)"
   - sudo -u model git clone https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/eflows4hpc-wp2/modelrepository.git
   - cd ./modelrepository/deployment
-  - cp /home/model/env /.env
+  - cp /env /.env
   - docker-compose up -d
   - touch /finished_cloudinit