diff --git a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 7045ed93dbc3..30104a765f24 100644
--- a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="3.1.1-debian-11-r17" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="3.1.1-debian-11-r18" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/kong" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="kong" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ RUN install_packages ca-certificates curl libcrypt1 libgcc-s1 libprotobuf-dev li
 RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     COMPONENTS=( \
       "gosu-1.16.0-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11" \
-      "kong-3.1.1-4-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11" \
+      "kong-3.1.1-5-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11" \
     ) && \
     for COMPONENT in "${COMPONENTS[@]}"; do \
       if [ ! -f "${COMPONENT}.tar.gz" ]; then \
@@ -43,9 +43,7 @@ COPY rootfs /
 RUN /opt/bitnami/scripts/kong/postunpack.sh
 ENV APP_VERSION="3.1.1" \
     BITNAMI_APP_NAME="kong" \
-    LUA_CPATH="./?.so;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/?.so;/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/luajit/lib/lua/5.1/?.so;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so;/opt/bitnami/kong/luarocks/lib/lua/5.1/?.so" \
-    LUA_PATH="/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/luajit/share/luajit-?/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua;/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/luajit/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/luajit/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua;/opt/bitnami/kong/luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;/opt/bitnami/kong/luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua" \
-    PATH="/opt/bitnami/common/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/luajit/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/nginx/sbin:$PATH"
+    PATH="/opt/bitnami/common/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/luarocks/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/luajit/bin:/opt/bitnami/kong/openresty/nginx/sbin:$PATH"
 
 EXPOSE 8000 8001 8443 8444
 
diff --git a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
index 685c3c878421..95bcfdb8ff65 100644
--- a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
+++ b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@
         "digest": "21749c2d3c16465f64f0be9889e3c5b72ea179641fbdd08225b0cb5c3079f854",
         "distro": "debian-11",
         "type": "NAMI",
-        "version": "3.1.1-4"
+        "version": "3.1.1-5"
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong-env.sh b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong-env.sh
index 6312a2b9cc63..a43865c51eea 100644
--- a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong-env.sh
+++ b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong-env.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export KONG_DEFAULT_CONF_FILE="${KONG_CONF_DIR}/kong.conf.default"
 export KONG_INITSCRIPTS_DIR="/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d"
 export KONG_SERVER_DIR="${KONG_BASE_DIR}/server"
 export KONG_LOGS_DIR="${KONG_SERVER_DIR}/logs"
-export PATH="${KONG_BASE_DIR}/bin:${KONG_BASE_DIR}/openresty/bin:${PATH}"
+export PATH="${KONG_BASE_DIR}/bin:${KONG_BASE_DIR}/openresty/bin:${KONG_BASE_DIR}/luarocks/bin:${PATH}"
 
 # System users (when running with a privileged user)
 export KONG_DAEMON_USER="kong"
diff --git a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong/postunpack.sh b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong/postunpack.sh
index e4952edc19ee..506949a43755 100755
--- a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong/postunpack.sh
+++ b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong/postunpack.sh
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ kong_conf_set lua_package_path
 kong_conf_set nginx_user
 kong_configure_non_empty_values
 install_opentelemetry
-
+configure_lua_paths "/opt/bitnami/scripts/kong-env.sh" "/etc/bash.bashrc"
diff --git a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libkong.sh b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libkong.sh
index 5171f6bbe644..641d245390c0 100644
--- a/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libkong.sh
+++ b/bitnami/kong/3/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libkong.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC1090,SC1091
 
 # Load generic libraries
+. /opt/bitnami/scripts/libfile.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libfs.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/liblog.sh
 . /opt/bitnami/scripts/libnet.sh
@@ -347,8 +348,30 @@ find_opentelemetry_source() {
 #   None
 #########################
 install_opentelemetry() {
-    local -r sourceDir="$(find_opentelemetry_source)"
-    local -r destinationDir="/usr/local/kong/include"
-    mkdir -p "$destinationDir"
-    ln -s "$sourceDir" "${destinationDir}/opentelemetry"
+    local -r source_dir="$(find_opentelemetry_source)"
+    local -r destination_dir="/usr/local/kong/include"
+    mkdir -p "$destination_dir"
+    ln -s "$source_dir" "${destination_dir}/opentelemetry"
+}
+
+########################
+# Configure LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH in the required files
+# Globals:
+#   None
+# Arguments:
+#   List of files to include the configuration
+# Returns:
+#   None
+#########################
+configure_lua_paths() {
+    local -a dest_files=("${@}")
+    local -r lua_paths_file="/tmp/lua-paths.sh"
+    # Skip the PATH environment variable. We are already setting it.
+    "${KONG_BASE_DIR}/luarocks/bin/luarocks" path > "$lua_paths_file"
+    remove_in_file "$lua_paths_file" "^export\s+PATH=.*$"
+    for dest_file in "${dest_files[@]}"; do
+        echo "# 'luarocks path' configuration" >> "$dest_file"
+        cat "$lua_paths_file" >> "$dest_file"
+    done
+    rm --force "$lua_paths_file"
 }