diff --git a/operator/controller/pom.xml b/operator/controller/pom.xml
index c2620cef09..4ac9d8e01a 100644
--- a/operator/controller/pom.xml
+++ b/operator/controller/pom.xml
@@ -165,6 +165,31 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>assembly</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>single</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <configuration>
+              <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
+              <attach>true</attach>
+              <descriptors>
+                <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
+              </descriptors>
+              <archiverConfig>
+                <defaultDirectoryMode>0755</defaultDirectoryMode>
+              </archiverConfig>
+              <tarLongFileMode>${tar.long.file.mode}</tarLongFileMode>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+
     </plugins>
 
   </build>
diff --git a/operator/controller/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml b/operator/controller/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa932e4772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/operator/controller/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd">
+  <id>quarkus-app</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>zip</format>
+    <format>tar.gz</format>
+  </formats>
+  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
+  <fileSets>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>target/quarkus-app</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+      <filtered>false</filtered>
+    </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</assembly>