diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-daemonset.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-daemonset.yaml
index 82abe7564..99754c9ff 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-daemonset.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-daemonset.yaml
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ spec:
       {{- end }}
       {{- if .Values.controller.opentelemetry.enabled}}
           {{ $otelContainerSecurityContext := $.Values.controller.opentelemetry.containerSecurityContext | default $.Values.controller.containerSecurityContext }}
-          {{- include "extraModules" (dict "name" "opentelemetry" "image" .Values.controller.opentelemetry.image "containerSecurityContext" $otelContainerSecurityContext) | nindent 8}}
+          {{- include "extraModules" (dict "name" "opentelemetry" "image" .Values.controller.opentelemetry.image "containerSecurityContext" $otelContainerSecurityContext "distroless" true) | nindent 8}}
       {{- end}}
     {{- end }}
     {{- if .Values.controller.hostNetwork }}