diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a451343f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+data
+out
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc8b288d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+FROM python:3.12-bookworm
+
+WORKDIR /work/IATI-Dashboard/dashboard
+
+COPY requirements.txt /work/IATI-Dashboard/requirements.txt
+
+RUN git config --global --add safe.directory /work/IATI-Stats/data
+
+RUN pip install -r /work/IATI-Dashboard/requirements.txt
+
+COPY . /work/IATI-Dashboard
+
+# 2024-03-20: Emergency fix
+# We were seeing cert errors inside the docker container after a new Lets Encrypt was issued.
+#
+# We know there are changes coming about root certificates and the error may be caused by that:
+# https://blog.cloudflare.com/upcoming-lets-encrypt-certificate-chain-change-and-impact-for-cloudflare-customers
+#
+# I tried installing the LE root cert's manually but that didn't work.
+# As live is broken for now we need this emergency fix, but we should remove it in the future.
+RUN echo "check_certificate=off" > /root/.wgetrc
+
+CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000", "--timeout", "120", "ui.wsgi:application"]
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 523b2f0a4..488212fa8 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 django
+gunicorn
 flask
 frozen-flask
 jinja2
@@ -11,4 +12,4 @@ lxml
 requests
 markupsafe
 itsdangerous
-tqdm
\ No newline at end of file
+tqdm
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index afde658de..cb1e9ed6f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
 # by the following command:
 #
-#    pip-compile requirements.in
+#    pip-compile
 #
 asgiref==3.8.1
     # via django
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ fonttools==4.54.1
     # via matplotlib
 frozen-flask==1.0.2
     # via -r requirements.in
+gunicorn==23.0.0
+    # via -r requirements.in
 idna==3.10
     # via requests
 itsdangerous==2.2.0
@@ -56,7 +58,9 @@ numpy==2.1.1
     #   contourpy
     #   matplotlib
 packaging==24.1
-    # via matplotlib
+    # via
+    #   gunicorn
+    #   matplotlib
 pillow==10.4.0
     # via matplotlib
 pyparsing==3.1.4
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 480e11b87..32fbe21f0 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ fonttools==4.54.1
     #   matplotlib
 frozen-flask==1.0.2
     # via -r requirements.txt
+gunicorn==23.0.0
+    # via -r requirements.txt
 idna==3.10
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
@@ -95,6 +97,7 @@ numpy==2.1.1
 packaging==24.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
+    #   gunicorn
     #   matplotlib
     #   pytest
 pillow==10.4.0