diff --git a/docker/opbeans/node/Dockerfile b/docker/opbeans/node/Dockerfile
index 9646eb337..4e77458e2 100644
--- a/docker/opbeans/node/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/opbeans/node/Dockerfile
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ARG OPBEANS_NODE_IMAGE=opbeans/opbeans-node
 ARG OPBEANS_NODE_VERSION=latest
 FROM ${OPBEANS_NODE_IMAGE}:${OPBEANS_NODE_VERSION}
 
+RUN apk --no-cache add rsync
 COPY entrypoint.sh /app/entrypoint.sh
 
 CMD ["pm2-runtime", "ecosystem-workload.config.js"]
diff --git a/docker/opbeans/node/entrypoint.sh b/docker/opbeans/node/entrypoint.sh
index 5f5aa5ecc..44e25a2aa 100755
--- a/docker/opbeans/node/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/opbeans/node/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 set -ex
 if [ -f /local-install/package.json ]; then
-    echo "Installing from local folder"
-    # copy to folder inside container to ensure were not poluting the local folder
-    cp -r /local-install ~
-    cd ~/local-install && npm install .
-    cd -
+    echo "Installing elastic-apm-node from local folder (--opbeans-node-agent-local-repo)"
+    # Copy to a folder inside container to ensure we're not polluting the
+    # local folder. Skip possibly huge dirs to speed this up.
+    rsync -a /local-install/ ~/local-install/ --exclude node_modules --exclude build --exclude .git
+    # Install elastic-apm-node from this copied dir.
+    npm install ~/local-install
+    npm ls elastic-apm-node
 elif [ -n "${NODE_AGENT_VERSION}" ]; then
     echo "Installing ${NODE_AGENT_VERSION} from npm"
     npm install elastic-apm-node@"${NODE_AGENT_VERSION}"