diff --git a/.goreleaser.yaml b/.goreleaser.yaml
index 8cd8a28..db52dd1 100644
--- a/.goreleaser.yaml
+++ b/.goreleaser.yaml
@@ -89,6 +89,25 @@ dockers:
     build_flag_templates:
       - "--platform=linux/amd64"
 
+  - use: buildx
+    goos: linux
+    goarch: arm64
+    dockerfile: Dockerfiles/Dockerfile.external-workload
+    image_templates:
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:{{ .Version }}-arm64"
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:latest-arm64"
+    build_flag_templates:
+      - "--platform=linux/arm64"
+  - use: buildx
+    goos: linux
+    goarch: amd64
+    dockerfile: Dockerfiles/Dockerfile.external-workload
+    image_templates:
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:{{ .Version }}-amd64"
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:latest-amd64"
+    build_flag_templates:
+      - "--platform=linux/amd64"
+
 docker_manifests:
   - name_template: "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-gui:{{ .Version }}"
     image_templates:
@@ -126,6 +145,24 @@ docker_manifests:
     push_flags:
       - --insecure
 
+  - name_template: "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:latest"
+    image_templates:
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:latest-arm64"
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:latest-amd64"
+    create_flags:
+      - --insecure
+    push_flags:
+      - --insecure
+
+  - name_template: "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:{{ .Version }}"
+    image_templates:
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:{{ .Version }}-arm64"
+      - "{{ .Env.REGISTRY }}/{{ .Env.IMAGE_NAME }}-external-workload:{{ .Version }}-amd64"
+    create_flags:
+      - --insecure
+    push_flags:
+      - --insecure
+
 archives:
   - id: generic
     name_template: '{{ .ProjectName }}_generic_{{ .Version }}_{{ .Os }}_{{ .Arch }}{{ with .Arm }}v{{ . }}{{ end }}{{ with .Mips }}_{{ . }}{{ end }}{{ if not (eq .Amd64 "v1") }}{{ .Amd64 }}{{ end }}'
diff --git a/Dockerfiles/Dockerfile.external-workload b/Dockerfiles/Dockerfile.external-workload
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbdb5a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfiles/Dockerfile.external-workload
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Buoyant Inc.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Copyright 2022-2024 Buoyant Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http:#www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+ARG BASE=ghcr.io/buoyantio/demo-external-base:0.2.0
+
+# Build over the external-workload base image.
+FROM $BASE AS final
+
+# This is associated with the faces-demo repo.
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/BuoyantIO/faces-demo
+
+# Copy the compiled binary from the builder stage into the final image
+COPY workload /workload/start