diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5b4e72eb..221a69da 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ builder-image:
 
 # Build the Flink Operator docker image
 operator-image: builder-image test-in-docker
-	docker build . -t ${IMG}
+	docker build  -t ${IMG} --label git-commit=$(shell git rev-parse HEAD) .
 	@echo "updating kustomize image patch file for Flink Operator resource"
 	sed -e 's#image: .*#image: '"${IMG}"'#' ./config/default/manager_image_patch.template >./config/default/manager_image_patch.yaml
 
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@ undeploy:
 
 # Deploy the sample Flink clusters in the Kubernetes cluster
 samples:
-	kubectl apply -f config/samples/
\ No newline at end of file
+	kubectl apply -f config/samples/