diff --git a/lib/workload/stateless/filemanager/deploy/constructs/functions/function.ts b/lib/workload/stateless/filemanager/deploy/constructs/functions/function.ts
index eb245bcb1..a1611e4de 100644
--- a/lib/workload/stateless/filemanager/deploy/constructs/functions/function.ts
+++ b/lib/workload/stateless/filemanager/deploy/constructs/functions/function.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { RustFunction } from 'cargo-lambda-cdk';
 import path from 'path';
 import { exec } from 'cargo-lambda-cdk/lib/util';
 import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
+import { print } from 'aws-cdk/lib/logging';
 
 /**
  * Properties for the database.
@@ -94,20 +95,27 @@ export class Function extends Construct {
       `/` +
       `${props.databaseSecret.secretValueFromJson('dbname').unsafeUnwrap()}`;
 
-    const manifestPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', '..');
+    const workspacePath = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', '..');
+    const manifestPath =  path.join(workspacePath, props.package, 'Cargo.toml');
+    const uuid = randomUUID();
+
     // This starts the container running postgres in order to compile queries using sqlx.
     // It needs to be executed outside `beforeBundling`, because `beforeBundling` runs inside
     // the container context, and docker compose needs to run outside of this context.
     const output = exec(
       'make',
-      ['-s', 'docker-run', `DOCKER_PROJECT_NAME=${randomUUID()}`],
-      { cwd: manifestPath, shell: true }
+      ['-s', 'docker-run', `DOCKER_PROJECT_NAME=${uuid}`],
+      { cwd: workspacePath, shell: true }
     );
+    print(`running filemanager \`make -s docker-run DOCKER_PROJECT_NAME=${uuid}\``);
+
     // Grab the last line only in case there are other outputs.
     const address = output.stdout.toString().trim().match('.*$')?.pop();
+    const localDatabaseUrl = `postgresql://filemanager:filemanager@${address}/filemanager`; // pragma: allowlist secret
+    print(`the local filemanager database url is: ${localDatabaseUrl}`);
 
     this._function = new RustFunction(this, 'RustFunction', {
-      manifestPath,
+      manifestPath: manifestPath,
       binaryName: props.package,
       bundling: {
         environment: {
@@ -115,8 +123,8 @@ export class Function extends Construct {
           // Avoid permission issues by creating another target directory.
           CARGO_TARGET_DIR: "target-cdk-docker-bundling",
           // The bundling container needs to be able to connect to the container running postgres.
-          DATABASE_URL: `postgresql://filemanager:filemanager@${address}/filemanager`, // pragma: allowlist secret
-        }
+          DATABASE_URL: localDatabaseUrl,
+        },
       },
       memorySize: 128,
       timeout: Duration.seconds(28),
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f0e68761a..97747432e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@aws-cdk/aws-lambda-python-alpha": "2.126.0-alpha.0",
     "aws-cdk-lib": "^2.133.0",
-    "cargo-lambda-cdk": "^0.0.19",
+    "cargo-lambda-cdk": "^0.0.20",
     "cdk-nag": "^2.28.27",
     "constructs": "^10.2.69",
     "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 3d25bd61e..948a0e147 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1680,15 +1680,15 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"cargo-lambda-cdk@npm:^0.0.19":
-  version: 0.0.19
-  resolution: "cargo-lambda-cdk@npm:0.0.19"
+"cargo-lambda-cdk@npm:^0.0.20":
+  version: 0.0.20
+  resolution: "cargo-lambda-cdk@npm:0.0.20"
   dependencies:
     js-toml: ^0.1.1
   peerDependencies:
-    aws-cdk-lib: ^2.1.0
+    aws-cdk-lib: ^2.63.0
     constructs: ^10.0.5
-  checksum: a2ad75973055b5b7ab3b4f7233643677befec10ea9b6a2e4a565dd61783c4247f383f6455b19986dd2ca8bf050c656bd0ebf89161ea46e7626e875585b9d606a
+  checksum: 407b3d9226dbee1b76a4a80c485a329da466eefaeb9afc71cd624bfedfe2f85adfeb107e4540d92ce16c4a799a15d622e3c6a48f3f879af63e564d892fb96fba
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
@@ -3892,7 +3892,7 @@ __metadata:
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": ^6.19.1
     aws-cdk: ^2.133.0
     aws-cdk-lib: ^2.133.0
-    cargo-lambda-cdk: ^0.0.19
+    cargo-lambda-cdk: ^0.0.20
     cdk-nag: ^2.28.27
     constructs: ^10.2.69
     dotenv: ^16.3.1