diff --git a/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties b/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 5a71c14296..6665be818d 100644
--- a/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/quarkus/admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -49,3 +49,4 @@ quarkus.index-dependency.guava.group-id=com.google.guava
 quarkus.index-dependency.guava.artifact-id=guava
 quarkus.index-dependency.protobuf.group-id=com.google.protobuf
 quarkus.index-dependency.protobuf.artifact-id=protobuf-java
+quarkus.datasource.devservices.image-name=postgres:17-alpine
diff --git a/quarkus/defaults/src/main/resources/application-test.properties b/quarkus/defaults/src/main/resources/application-test.properties
index f4325db327..61d7a518aa 100644
--- a/quarkus/defaults/src/main/resources/application-test.properties
+++ b/quarkus/defaults/src/main/resources/application-test.properties
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@
 # Per-test specific configuration should use QuarkusTestProfile
 
 quarkus.log.file.enable=false
+quarkus.datasource.devservices.image-name=postgres:17-alpine
diff --git a/quarkus/test-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/test/commons/PostgresRelationalJdbcLifeCycleManagement.java b/quarkus/test-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/test/commons/PostgresRelationalJdbcLifeCycleManagement.java
index a85a70909e..9dc230722f 100644
--- a/quarkus/test-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/test/commons/PostgresRelationalJdbcLifeCycleManagement.java
+++ b/quarkus/test-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/test/commons/PostgresRelationalJdbcLifeCycleManagement.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public void init(Map<String, String> initArgs) {
   @SuppressWarnings("resource")
   public Map<String, String> start() {
     postgres =
-        new PostgreSQLContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("postgres:17"))
+        new PostgreSQLContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("postgres:17-alpine"))
             .withDatabaseName("polaris_db")
             .withUsername("polaris")
             .withPassword("polaris");