diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index f54252fa9d..e475da55dd 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -106,3 +106,7 @@ quarkus:
   # adapt path of the open api definitions
   smallrye-openapi:
     path: /api/json/openapi
+  native:
+    # Adding com.datastax.oss.driver.internal.core.metadata.MetadataManager to the list of classes that are initialized
+    # at run time while building the native image. This is for the issue https://github.com/stargate/jsonapi/issues/597
+    additional-build-args: --initialize-at-run-time=com.datastax.oss.driver.internal.core.metadata.MetadataManager
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