diff --git a/rust/Cargo.lock b/rust/Cargo.lock
index 3f9988659..0615d70bb 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.lock
+++ b/rust/Cargo.lock
@@ -3849,6 +3849,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project",
  "prost",
  "prost-derive",
+ "rustls-native-certs",
  "rustls-pemfile",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls 0.23.4",
diff --git a/rust/Dockerfile b/rust/Dockerfile
index 254c290e1..9f25fcb0f 100644
--- a/rust/Dockerfile
+++ b/rust/Dockerfile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ENV RUST_BACKTRACE=1
 ENV PATH "/app:$PATH"
 ENV PACKAGE_NAME ${PACKAGE}
 RUN apt-get update -y \
-    && apt-get install -y iputils-ping iptables lsof iproute2 curl iperf3 \
+    && apt-get install -y iputils-ping iptables lsof iproute2 curl iperf3 ca-certificates \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
diff --git a/rust/relay/Cargo.toml b/rust/relay/Cargo.toml
index 627e06c30..a0c6d3984 100644
--- a/rust/relay/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/relay/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread", "net", "t
 tracing = { version = "0.1.37", features = ["log"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter", "json", "fmt"] }
 tracing-stackdriver = { version = "0.7.2", features = ["opentelemetry"] }
-opentelemetry-stackdriver = { version = "0.16.0", default-features = false, features = ["gcp_auth"] }
+opentelemetry-stackdriver = { version = "0.16.0", default-features = false, features = ["gcp_auth", "tls-native-roots"] }
 tracing-opentelemetry = "0.19.0"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.19.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 env_logger = "0.10.0"