diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index b3ea63c..51c503c 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,8 +1,30 @@
-# https://github.com/tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi-docker
-# https://github.com/tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi-docker/blob/master/docker-images/python3.11.dockerfile
-FROM tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn:python3.11
+# Dockerfile
+FROM mambaorg/micromamba:latest
 
-COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+USER root
 
-COPY ./app /app
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+# Run apt install
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y
+
+# Don't write .pyc files into image to reduce image size 
+ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+
+# Install conda environment to /opt/env/ and prepend to PATH
+COPY environment.yml /opt/
+RUN micromamba create -f /opt/environment.yml -p /opt/env/
+ENV PATH="/opt/env/bin:$PATH"
+
+# Change work directory
+WORKDIR / 
+
+# Copy application contents
+COPY ./app .
+COPY ./entrypoint.sh .
+
+# run the container as a non-root user
+ENV USER=aaltorse
+RUN groupadd -r $USER && useradd -r -g $USER $USER
+USER $USER
+
+# Entrypoint
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 47d1826..edae62a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,18 @@
 # LLMGateway
+
+An API gateway for Aalto LLM deployment.
+
+Implemented as a FastAPI app, served using gunicorn + uvicorn, and containerized using Docker.
+
+## Run container locally
+
+Build image and run container
+```
+docker build -t llmgateway . 
+docker run -p 8000:8000 llmgateway
+```
+
+Test the connection
+```
+curl 0.0.0.0:8000
+```
diff --git a/app/main.py b/app/main.py
index 45a7db3..12fc463 100644
--- a/app/main.py
+++ b/app/main.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+"""
+A placeholder hello world app.
+"""
+
 from typing import Union
 
 from fastapi import FastAPI
diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2194769
--- /dev/null
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+gunicorn app.main:app --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker --workers 1
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diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index ec932b8..ce22399 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ channels:
   - conda-forge
 dependencies:
   - fastapi
+  - gunicorn
+  - uvicorn
   - redis-py
   - pymongo
   - schedule
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b0b939..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-fastapi