diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 120000
index cd8c5279036..00000000000
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/workspace/datawave/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/.dockerignore
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/.dockerignore b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/.dockerignore
index 7cea84fc8e5..01c2897527c 100644
--- a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/.dockerignore
+++ b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/.dockerignore
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 # Ignore any ide and repo dirs/files
 
+.git
+
 **/.m2
 **/.git
 **/.idea
diff --git a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile
index 4f16a5def29..d936761d930 100644
--- a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -69,11 +69,9 @@ RUN /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/nohup /usr/sbin/sshd -D &" && \
 # Primary data volume (for HDFS, Accumulo, ZooKeeper, etc)
 VOLUME ["/opt/datawave/contrib/datawave-quickstart/data"]
 
-
 # In case user wants to rebuild DW
 VOLUME ["$HOME/.m2/repository"]
 
-
 VOLUME ["/opt/datawave/contrib/datawave-quickstart/hadoop/logs"]
 VOLUME ["/opt/datawave/contrib/datawave-quickstart/accumulo/logs"]
 VOLUME ["/opt/datawave/contrib/datawave-quickstart/wildfly/standalone/log"]
diff --git a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/docker-build.sh b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/docker-build.sh
index 8b6c06ad0fe..e3aa4eb1c8a 100755
--- a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/docker-build.sh
+++ b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/docker-build.sh
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ function removeDatawaveTarball() {
 
 function cleanBuildContext() {
     info "Cleaning up"
-    unlink ${DATAWAVE_SOURCE_DIR}/.dockerignore > /dev/null 2>&1 && info ".dockerignore symlink removed"
+    rm -f ${DATAWAVE_SOURCE_DIR}/.dockerignore > /dev/null 2>&1 && info ".dockerignore copy removed"
 
     # Remove any potentially stale DataWave tarballs from the DW service directory. Removal
     # will guarantee that a fresh Maven build is triggered whenever env.sh is sourced
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ function prepareBuildContext() {
 
     # Set temporary .dockerignore symlink in DATAWAVE_SOURCE_DIR for context exclusions...
 
-    ln -s "${THIS_DIR}/.dockerignore" "${DATAWAVE_SOURCE_DIR}/.dockerignore" || fatal "Failed to set .dockerignore symlink"
+    cp "${THIS_DIR}/.dockerignore" "${DATAWAVE_SOURCE_DIR}/.dockerignore" || fatal "Failed to copy .dockerignore into place"
 
     sanityCheckTarball "${QUICKSTART_DIR}/bin/services/maven" "apache-maven*.tar.gz" "${DW_MAVEN_DIST_URI}"
 }