diff --git a/cli/command/container/opts.go b/cli/command/container/opts.go
index 723537e87c..35c85acf57 100644
--- a/cli/command/container/opts.go
+++ b/cli/command/container/opts.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(vvoland): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.23
+
 package container
 
 import (