diff --git a/rootfs/Dockerfile b/rootfs/Dockerfile
index 42c27ead5..70ff1252c 100644
--- a/rootfs/Dockerfile
+++ b/rootfs/Dockerfile
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 ARG BASE_IMAGE
-ARG VERSION
 
 FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
 
+ARG VERSION
+
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx"