diff --git a/plugins/app-json/internal-functions b/plugins/app-json/internal-functions
index 97e04909a..8f72fd9fb 100755
--- a/plugins/app-json/internal-functions
+++ b/plugins/app-json/internal-functions
@@ -82,16 +82,16 @@ execute_script() {
   [[ -d $CACHE_DIR ]] || mkdir -p "$CACHE_DIR"
 
   local DOCKER_ARGS=$(: | plugn trigger docker-args-deploy "$APP" "$IMAGE_TAG")
-  # strip certain args from DOCKER_ARGS
-  local filtered_args=("restart" "cpus" "memory" "memory-swap" "gpus" "memory-reservation")
-  for filtered_arg in "${filtered_args[@]}"; do
-    DOCKER_ARGS=$(sed -e "s/--${filtered_arg}=[[:graph:]]\+[[:blank:]]\?//g" <<<"$DOCKER_ARGS")
-  done
-
   local IMAGE_SOURCE_TYPE="dockerfile"
   is_image_herokuish_based "$IMAGE" "$APP" && IMAGE_SOURCE_TYPE="herokuish"
   DOCKER_ARGS+=$(: | plugn trigger docker-args-process-deploy "$APP" "$IMAGE_SOURCE_TYPE" "$IMAGE_TAG")
 
+  # strip certain args from DOCKER_ARGS
+  local filtered_args=("restart" "cpus" "memory" "memory-swap" "memory-reservation" "nvidia-gpu")
+  for filtered_arg in "${filtered_args[@]}"; do
+    DOCKER_ARGS=$(sed -e "s/--${filtered_arg}=[[:graph:]]\+[[:blank:]]\?//g" <<<"$DOCKER_ARGS")
+  done
+
   # eval args as array to respect escapes
   declare -a ARG_ARRAY
   eval "ARG_ARRAY=($DOCKER_ARGS)"