diff --git a/.env.dist b/.env.dist
index 16833b8..d90f5b9 100644
--- a/.env.dist
+++ b/.env.dist
@@ -18,13 +18,16 @@ S3_ACCESS_SECRET=
 S3_BUCKET_NAME=
 S3_ENDPOINT_URL=
 
+S3_ROOT_USER=
+S3_ROOT_PASSWORD=
+
 # Celery Message Broker
 # e.g.: redis://127.0.0.1:6378/1
 MSG_BROKER_URL=
 MSG_BROKER_PREFIX=
 
 # Celery task work directory to store temporary files
-# use ./worker folder as absolute path: /home/user/app/worker
+# use ./services_data/worker folder as absolute path: /home/user/app/worker
 TASK_WORKER_DIR=
 
 # Channels Layers Backend (Websocket)
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 957fdeb..37f40c2 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ static/*
 */migrations/*
 env/
 static_bk/
+**/.env
+
+services_data/*/*
+!services_data/*/.gitkeep
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100755
index c89c320..0000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "scrapers/news-scrapers"]
-	path = scrapers/news-scrapers
-	url = https://github.com/MarcZierle/news-scrapers
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d6b046
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+FROM python:3.10.0-bullseye AS builder
+
+# create user and group
+RUN mkdir -p /home/app
+RUN adduser app && adduser app app
+WORKDIR /home/app
+
+# install dependencies
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
+    apt-get install -y postgresql gcc python3-dev \
+	libgl1
+	#musl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
+COPY ./requirements.txt .
+RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && \
+	pip3 install -r requirements.txt && \
+	pip3 install psycopg2==2.9.4 && \
+	pip3 install gunicorn==20.1.0
+
+COPY . .
+RUN chown -R app:app /home/app
+
+USER app
+
+FROM builder AS backend
+# run gunicorn
+CMD ["gunicorn", "config.wsgi:application", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000"]
+
+FROM builder AS worker
+# run celery worker
+CMD ["celery", "-A", "config", "worker", "-l", "info"]
+
+FROM builder AS websocket
+# run daphne server
+CMD ["daphne", "-b", "0.0.0.0", "-p", "8001", "config.asgi:application"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a5ec620
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Photolog Backend Services
+
+requires docker and docker-compose
+
+## Usage
+
+First make sure to fill in all .env file related secrets (see .env.dist).
+
+### Django REST API Backend
+`docker-compose up -d backend`
+
+### Celery Worker Node
+`docker-compose up -d worker`
+
+### Daphne Websocket server
+`docker-compose up -d websocket`
+
+### Redis Cache and Celery Message Broker
+`docker-compose up -d cache`
+
+### S3 Object Storage
+`docker-compose up -d s3`
+
+### PostgreSQL Database
+`docker-compose up -d db`
diff --git a/config/package-lock.json b/config/package-lock.json
deleted file mode 100755
index 2f2f358..0000000
--- a/config/package-lock.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "config",
-  "lockfileVersion": 2,
-  "requires": true,
-  "packages": {}
-}
diff --git a/config/settings.py b/config/settings.py
index 286427f..a411569 100755
--- a/config/settings.py
+++ b/config/settings.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/settings/
 from pathlib import Path
 import os
 import environ
-from macpath import join
 
 env = environ.Env(
 	DEBUG=(bool, False)
@@ -33,9 +32,9 @@ SECRET_KEY = env('SECRET_KEY')
 # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
 DEBUG = env('DEBUG')
 
-ALLOWED_HOSTS = env('ALLOWED_HOSTS')
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = env('ALLOWED_HOSTS').split(',')
 
-CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = env('ALLOWED_HOSTS')
+CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = [ 'https://' + url for url in env('ALLOWED_HOSTS').split(',')]
 
 
 # Application definition
diff --git a/config/supervisor/celery_supervisor.conf b/config/supervisor/celery_supervisor.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 1153a54..0000000
--- a/config/supervisor/celery_supervisor.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-[program:celery_zierle_training_staging]
-
-directory=/home/marc/www-staging/backend
-
-user=www-data
-numprocs=1
-stdout_logfile=/var/log/celery/worker.log
-stderr_logfile=/var/log/celery/worker.log
-autostart=true
-autorestart=true
-startsecs=10
-
-command=/home/marc/www-staging/backend/env/bin/python3 -m celery -A config worker --loglevel=INFO
-
-; Need to wait for currently executing tasks to finish at shutdown.
-; Increase this if you have very long running tasks.
-stopwaitsecs = 60
-
-; Causes supervisor to send the termination signal (SIGTERM) to the whole process group.
-stopasgroup=true
-
-; Set Celery priority higher than default (999)
-; so, if rabbitmq is supervised, it will start first.
-priority=1000
diff --git a/config/supervisor/daphne_supervisor.conf b/config/supervisor/daphne_supervisor.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index eee5ca7..0000000
--- a/config/supervisor/daphne_supervisor.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-[fcgi-program:ws_zierle_training_staging]
-# TCP socket used by Nginx backend upstream
-socket=tcp://localhost:8001
-
-user=www-data
-
-# Directory where your site's project files are located
-directory=/home/marc/www-staging/backend
-
-# Each process needs to have a separate socket file, so we use process_num
-# Make sure to update "mysite.asgi" to match your project name
-command=/home/marc/www-staging/backend/env/bin/python3 -m daphne -u /run/daphne/daphne%(process_num)d.sock --fd 0 --access-log - --proxy-headers config.asgi:application
-
-# Number of processes to startup, roughly the number of CPUs you have
-numprocs=2
-
-# Give each process a unique name so they can be told apart
-process_name=ws_zierle_training_staging%(process_num)d
-
-# Automatically start and recover processes
-autostart=true
-autorestart=true
-
-# Choose where you want your log to go
-stdout_logfile=/home/marc/www-staging/logs/daphne.log
-redirect_stderr=true
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2000d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+version: '3.8'
+
+services:
+  backend:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      target: backend
+    #restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+  
+  worker:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      target: worker
+    restart: always
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+  
+  websocket:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      target: websocket
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "8001:8001"
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+
+  db:
+    image: postgres:15-alpine
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "5432:5432"
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+    environment:
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
+      - POSTGRES_USER=${DB_USER}
+      - POSTGRES_DB=${DB_NAME}
+    volumes:
+      - db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+  
+  cache:
+    image: redis:7-alpine
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "6379:6379"
+    command: redis-server --save 60 1 --loglevel warning
+    volumes:
+      - cache:/data
+  
+  s3:
+    image: quay.io/minio/minio
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "9000:9000"
+      - "9001:9001"
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+    environment:
+      - MINIO_ROOT_USER=${S3_ACCESS_ID}
+      - MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=${S3_ACCESS_SECRET}
+      #- MINIO_SCHEME=http
+    volumes:
+      - s3:/data
+    command: server /data --console-address ":9001"
+
+volumes:
+  db:
+  s3:
+  cache:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 668b345..3322599 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ ruamel.yaml==0.17.21
 ruamel.yaml.clib==0.2.6
 s3transfer==0.6.0
 scikit-image==0.19.1
-scipy==1.7.3
+scipy
 service-identity==21.1.0
 six==1.16.0
 soupsieve==2.2.1