diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df49486
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+FROM debian:bookworm
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    python3-full \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-packaging \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+COPY requirements.txt ./
+RUN pip install --break-system-packages -r requirements.txt
+
+COPY tests/requirements.txt tests/requirements.txt
+RUN python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages -r tests/requirements.txt
+
+COPY . ./
+
+RUN python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages .
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diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15d1cb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+version: '3.9'
+
+services:
+  tests:
+    image: lightning-universe/lightning-hivemind:latest
+    command: pytest tests/ -v
+    tty: true
+    stdin_open: true
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    volumes:
+      - ./src:/app/src
+      - ./tests:/app/tests
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 865c6b7..8311e75 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 lightning >=2.0.0
-hivemind >=1.1.0, <=1.1.5; sys_platform == 'linux'
+hivemind >=1.1.0, <=1.1.10.post2; sys_platform == 'linux'
 
 pydantic <2.0.0  # fixme: lift when resolved
diff --git a/src/lightning_hivemind/strategy.py b/src/lightning_hivemind/strategy.py
index ad16928..ad6f9ae 100644
--- a/src/lightning_hivemind/strategy.py
+++ b/src/lightning_hivemind/strategy.py
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ class HivemindStrategy(Strategy):
 
         bootstrap_timeout: after one of peers responds, await other peers for at most this many seconds
 
+        use_relay: disable circuit relay functionality in libp2p (see https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/nat/circuit-relay/)
+
+        use_auto_relay: look for libp2p relays to become reachable if we are behind NAT/firewall
+
         **optimizer_kwargs: kwargs are passed to the :class:`hivemind.Optimizer` class.
     """
 
@@ -139,6 +143,8 @@ def __init__(
         use_ipfs: bool = False,
         wait_timeout: int = 3,
         bootstrap_timeout: Optional[float] = None,
+        use_relay: bool = True,
+        use_auto_relay: bool = False,
         **optimizer_kwargs: Any,
     ):
         if platform.system() != "Linux":
@@ -177,9 +183,11 @@ def __init__(
             initial_peers=initial_peers,
             host_maddrs=host_maddrs if host_maddrs is not None else ["/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/0", "/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/0/quic"],
             use_ipfs=use_ipfs,
+            ensure_bootstrap_success=bool(not use_ipfs),
             wait_timeout=wait_timeout,
             bootstrap_timeout=bootstrap_timeout,
-            ensure_bootstrap_success=bool(not use_ipfs),
+            use_relay=use_relay,
+            use_auto_relay=use_auto_relay
         )
 
         visible_addresses = [
diff --git a/tests/test_strategy.py b/tests/test_strategy.py
index de6497e..e7e72ad 100644
--- a/tests/test_strategy.py
+++ b/tests/test_strategy.py
@@ -69,6 +69,28 @@ def configure_optimizers(self):
     )
     trainer.fit(model)
 
+@mock.patch.dict(os.environ, {"HIVEMIND_MEMORY_SHARING_STRATEGY": "file_descriptor"}, clear=True)
+def test_ipfs_integration():
+    class TestModel(BoringModel):
+        def on_before_backward(self, loss: Tensor) -> None:
+            scheduler = self.trainer.lr_scheduler_configs[0].scheduler
+            assert isinstance(scheduler, HiveMindScheduler)
+
+        def configure_optimizers(self):
+            optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(self.layer.parameters(), lr=0.1)
+            return [optimizer], [torch.optim.lr_scheduler.ExponentialLR(optimizer, gamma=0.9)]
+
+    model = TestModel()
+    trainer = Trainer(
+        strategy=HivemindStrategy(
+            target_batch_size=1, 
+            use_ipfs=True,
+            use_relay=True,
+            use_auto_relay=True
+        ),
+        fast_dev_run=True,
+    )
+    trainer.fit(model)
 
 @mock.patch.dict(
     os.environ,
@@ -139,7 +161,7 @@ def test_raise_exception_no_batch_size(mock__extract_batch_size):
     [(True, True, True), (False, True, False)],
 )
 def test_warn_if_argument_passed(delay_grad_averaging, delay_state_averaging, delay_optimizer_step):
-    """Ensure that valid combination of HiveMind delay arguments warn if scheduler isn't passed in as a  function."""
+    """Ensure that valid combination of HiveMind delay arguments warn if scheduler isn't passed in as a function."""
     model = BoringModel()
     trainer = Trainer(
         strategy=HivemindStrategy(