diff --git a/cni.Dockerfile b/cni.Dockerfile
index 55985345a..2a6271e9f 100644
--- a/cni.Dockerfile
+++ b/cni.Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 FROM centos:7
 LABEL authors="Antoni Segura Puimedon<toni@kuryr.org>, Vikas Choudhary<vichoudh@redhat.com>"
 
+ARG OSLO_LOCK_PATH=/var/kuryr-lock
+
 RUN yum install -y epel-release https://rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.rpm \
     && yum install -y --setopt=tsflags=nodocs python-pip iproute bridge-utils openvswitch sudo \
     && yum install -y --setopt=tsflags=nodocs gcc python-devel git \
@@ -13,7 +15,8 @@ RUN cd /opt/kuryr-kubernetes \
     && /kuryr-kubernetes/bin/pip install . \
     && virtualenv --relocatable /kuryr-kubernetes \
     && rm -fr .git \
-    && yum -y history undo last
+    && yum -y history undo last \
+    && mkdir ${OSLO_LOCK_PATH}
 
 COPY ./cni_ds_init /usr/bin/cni_ds_init
 
@@ -23,6 +26,7 @@ ARG CNI_BIN_DIR_PATH=/opt/cni/bin
 ENV CNI_BIN_DIR_PATH ${CNI_BIN_DIR_PATH}
 ARG CNI_DAEMON=False
 ENV CNI_DAEMON ${CNI_DAEMON}
+ENV OSLO_LOCK_PATH=${OSLO_LOCK_PATH}
 
 VOLUME [ "/sys/fs/cgroup" ]
 ENTRYPOINT [ "cni_ds_init" ]