diff --git a/gocd/templates/bash/deploy.sh b/gocd/templates/bash/deploy.sh
index 56c957e3..251f1087 100644
--- a/gocd/templates/bash/deploy.sh
+++ b/gocd/templates/bash/deploy.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 eval $(regions-project-env-vars --region="${SENTRY_REGION}")
 
-# Run the distroless image variant in s4s2 first to validate it before other
-# regions. The "-distroless" tag is published by .github/workflows/image.yaml.
+# Run the distroless image variant in the regions below while rolling it out
+# region by region. The "-distroless" tag is published by .github/workflows/image.yaml.
 IMAGE_TAG="${GO_REVISION_VROOM_REPO}"
-if [ "${SENTRY_REGION}" = "s4s2" ]; then
+if [ "${SENTRY_REGION}" = "s4s2" ] || [ "${SENTRY_REGION}" = "de" ]; then
 	IMAGE_TAG="${GO_REVISION_VROOM_REPO}-distroless"
 fi