diff --git a/images/.utils/gitlab-ci.yaml b/images/.utils/gitlab-ci.yaml
index 76ff7567e044a7970649a1142bee64fafaa6f896..b41b714159d10055f9bde21eacb7fdfa53a30b56 100644
--- a/images/.utils/gitlab-ci.yaml
+++ b/images/.utils/gitlab-ci.yaml
@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@ include:
 
 container-build:
   extends: .earthly-cloud
+  variables:
+    EARTHLY_USE_INLINE_CACHE: "true"
   script:
-    - earthly --use-inline-cache --save-inline-cache --ci +images
+    - earthly +images ${BUILD_ARGS}
   rules:
     - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH && $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push"'
       variables:
         EARTHLY_PUSH: "true"
+        EARTHLY_SAVE_INLINE_CACHE: "true"
+        BUILD_ARGS: "${BUILD_ARGS} --latest=true"
       changes:
         paths:
           - images/**/*
diff --git a/shared/earthly/gitlab-earthly-cloud.yaml b/shared/earthly/gitlab-earthly-cloud.yaml
index 8b984aa6311b4914b2ebe0fb7533c4e11b908fa5..92c85d6709fd48ba033812a5080ff38a87f13c95 100644
--- a/shared/earthly/gitlab-earthly-cloud.yaml
+++ b/shared/earthly/gitlab-earthly-cloud.yaml
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@
   variables:
     FORCE_COLOR: 1
     EARTHLY_EXEC_CMD: "/bin/sh"
+    EARTHLY_CI: "true"
   tags:
     - kubernetes
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