diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/cloud-deployment.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/cloud-deployment.adoc
index 2aa5c436df..4d76c266b4 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/cloud-deployment.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/cloud-deployment.adoc
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ for our starter REST application:
 
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-	web: java -Dserver.port=$PORT -jar target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
+	web: java -Dserver.port=$PORT $JAVA_OPTS -jar target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
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 Spring Boot makes `-D` arguments available as properties accessible from a Spring