diff --git a/.chloggen/ta-no-root.yaml b/.chloggen/ta-no-root.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6daeb7840f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/ta-no-root.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. collector, target allocator, auto-instrumentation, opamp, github action)
+component: target allocator
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Change docker image to run as non-root
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [3378]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 209e0fe34b..68f4834a72 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -17,6 +17,3 @@
 
 # AutoInstrumentation owners
 # TBD
-
-# Target Allocator owners
-cmd/otel-allocator @open-telemetry/operator-ta-maintainers
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfc2867391..cca3c34ebc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -860,15 +860,6 @@ Emeritus Approvers:
 - [Owais Lone](https://github.com/owais), Splunk
 - [Pablo Baeyens](https://github.com/mx-psi), DataDog
 
-Target Allocator Maintainers ([@open-telemetry/operator-ta-maintainers](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/teams/operator-ta-maintainers)):
-
-- [Sebastian Poxhofer](https://github.com/secustor)
-
-Emeritus Target Allocator Maintainers
-
-- [Anthony Mirabella](https://github.com/Aneurysm9), AWS
-- [Kristina Pathak](https://github.com/kristinapathak), Lightstep
-
 Maintainers ([@open-telemetry/operator-maintainers](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/teams/operator-maintainers)):
 
 - [Jacob Aronoff](https://github.com/jaronoff97), Lightstep
diff --git a/cmd/otel-allocator/Dockerfile b/cmd/otel-allocator/Dockerfile
index 2e57628925..26ed93dbe0 100644
--- a/cmd/otel-allocator/Dockerfile
+++ b/cmd/otel-allocator/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Get CA certificates from the Alpine package repo
-FROM alpine:3.20 as certificates
+FROM alpine:3.20 AS certificates
 
 RUN apk --no-cache add ca-certificates
 
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ FROM scratch
 
 ARG TARGETARCH
 
-WORKDIR /root/
+WORKDIR /
 
 # Copy the certs
 COPY --from=certificates /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@ COPY --from=certificates /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-ce
 # Copy binary built on the host
 COPY bin/targetallocator_${TARGETARCH} ./main
 
+USER 65532:65532
+
 ENTRYPOINT ["./main"]
diff --git a/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/chainsaw-test.yaml b/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/chainsaw-test.yaml
index 0cf36e93f0..4752e8ccb3 100755
--- a/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/chainsaw-test.yaml
+++ b/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/chainsaw-test.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyverno/chainsaw/main/.schemas/json/test-chainsaw-v1alpha1.json
 apiVersion: chainsaw.kyverno.io/v1alpha1
 kind: Test
 metadata:
@@ -14,6 +13,31 @@ spec:
         file: 00-workload-monitoring.yaml
     - assert:
         file: 00-assert.yaml
+  - name: Enable OpenShift platform monitoring on the OpenTelemetry operator namespace
+    try:
+    - command:
+        entrypoint: oc
+        args:
+        - get
+        - pods
+        - -A
+        - -l control-plane=controller-manager
+        - -l app.kubernetes.io/name=opentelemetry-operator
+        - -o 
+        - jsonpath={.items[0].metadata.namespace}
+        outputs:
+        - name: OTEL_NAMESPACE
+          value: ($stdout)
+    - command:
+        env:
+        - name: otelnamespace
+          value: ($OTEL_NAMESPACE)
+        entrypoint: oc
+        args:
+        - label
+        - namespace
+        - $otelnamespace 
+        - openshift.io/cluster-monitoring=true
   - name: step-01
     try:
     - apply:
diff --git a/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/check_metrics.sh b/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/check_metrics.sh
index e92a1649e4..8dd65fc4e0 100755
--- a/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/check_metrics.sh
+++ b/tests/e2e-openshift/monitoring/check_metrics.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ TOKEN=$(oc create token prometheus-user-workload -n openshift-user-workload-moni
 THANOS_QUERIER_HOST=$(oc get route thanos-querier -n openshift-monitoring -o json | jq -r '.spec.host')
 
 #Check metrics for OpenTelemetry collector instance.
-metrics="otelcol_process_uptime otelcol_process_runtime_total_sys_memory_bytes otelcol_process_memory_rss otelcol_exporter_sent_spans otelcol_process_cpu_seconds otelcol_process_memory_rss otelcol_process_runtime_heap_alloc_bytes otelcol_process_runtime_total_alloc_bytes otelcol_process_runtime_total_sys_memory_bytes otelcol_process_uptime otelcol_receiver_accepted_spans otelcol_receiver_refused_spans"
+metrics="otelcol_process_uptime otelcol_process_runtime_total_sys_memory_bytes otelcol_process_memory_rss otelcol_exporter_sent_spans otelcol_process_cpu_seconds otelcol_process_memory_rss otelcol_process_runtime_heap_alloc_bytes otelcol_process_runtime_total_alloc_bytes otelcol_process_runtime_total_sys_memory_bytes otelcol_process_uptime otelcol_receiver_accepted_spans otelcol_receiver_refused_spans opentelemetry_collector_info opentelemetry_collector_exporters opentelemetry_collector_receivers"
 
 for metric in $metrics; do
 query="$metric"