diff --git a/Dockerfile.wolfi b/Dockerfile.wolfi
index cc33998b04..601fd3b66b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.wolfi
+++ b/Dockerfile.wolfi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM docker.elastic.co/wolfi/chainguard-base:latest@sha256:6b2446102599dee9d17c472ccdb63b462def06028900fdcbf08d413074f8d131
+FROM docker.elastic.co/wolfi/chainguard-base:latest@sha256:a71dfa7c4cb17fb0f6814cda77e0bdf7b66dec9b6725fe61abd29c2263775af7
 RUN mkdir /usr/agent
 ARG JAR_FILE
 ARG HANDLER_FILE
diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-es-restclient-plugin/apm-es-restclient-plugin-8_x/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/esrestclient/v8_x/Elasticsearch8JavaIT.java b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-es-restclient-plugin/apm-es-restclient-plugin-8_x/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/esrestclient/v8_x/Elasticsearch8JavaIT.java
index f891afab0b..ee64326981 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-es-restclient-plugin/apm-es-restclient-plugin-8_x/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/esrestclient/v8_x/Elasticsearch8JavaIT.java
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-es-restclient-plugin/apm-es-restclient-plugin-8_x/src/test/java/co/elastic/apm/agent/esrestclient/v8_x/Elasticsearch8JavaIT.java
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ public Elasticsearch8JavaIT(boolean async) {
 
     protected static void startContainer(String image) {
         container = new ElasticsearchContainer(image)
-            .withEnv("ES_JAVA_OPTS", "-XX:-UseContainerSupport")
+            .withEnv("ES_JAVA_OPTS", "-XX:-UseContainerSupport -Xms512m -Xmx512m")
             .withCreateContainerCmdModifier(TestContainersUtils.withMemoryLimit(4096));
         container.start();
     }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7dd82797be..5709a4f1d7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
         <!-- used both for plugin & annotations dependency -->
         <version.animal-sniffer>1.17</version.animal-sniffer>
 
-        <version.testcontainers>1.21.3</version.testcontainers>
+        <version.testcontainers>1.21.4</version.testcontainers>
 
         <!-- latest version compiled for java 11 -->
         <version.jsonunit>2.38.0</version.jsonunit>