diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 2ddcf79..1156f3f 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -240,11 +240,14 @@
 
   docEnvPackageList = (with toolchainPkgs; [
     (callPackage ./nix/mdbook-alerts {})
+    (callPackage ./nix/plantuml-wrapper {})
+    bash
     coreutils
     mdbook
     mdbook-katex
     mdbook-mermaid
     mdbook-plantuml
+    openjdk # needed for mdbook-plantuml to work (runtime exe dep)
     plantuml # needed for mdbook-plantuml to work (runtime exe dep)
     tmpdir
   ]);
diff --git a/nix/plantuml-wrapper/default.nix b/nix/plantuml-wrapper/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5fb0e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/plantuml-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  stdenv,
+}: stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "dataplane-plantuml-wrapper";
+  version = "0.0.1";
+  src = ./src;
+  installPhase = ''
+    cp -a $src $out
+  '';
+
+}
diff --git a/nix/plantuml-wrapper/src/bin/plantuml b/nix/plantuml-wrapper/src/bin/plantuml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3f8cc1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/plantuml-wrapper/src/bin/plantuml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+exec /lib/openjdk/bin/java -jar /lib/plantuml.jar "$@"