diff --git a/Docker/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
similarity index 83%
rename from Docker/Dockerfile
rename to Dockerfile
index c46cb72b..b03a89a9 100644
--- a/Docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ RUN pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN pip install -r requirements.docker.txt
 RUN pip install -e .
 
-RUN chmod +x Docker/entrypoint.sh
+COPY /entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
 
 #CMD ["uvicorn", "API.main:app", "--reload", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000"]
-ENTRYPOINT ["Docker/entrypoint.sh"]
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
 
 HEALTHCHECK CMD curl -f http://localhost:8000 || exit 1
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45b76ded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+version: '3.8'
+
+services:
+
+  app:
+    build: .
+    ports:
+      - 8000:8000
+    volumes:
+      - .:/app
+    depends_on:
+      - redis
+
+  worker:
+    build: .
+    command: celery --app API.api_worker worker --loglevel=INFO
+    volumes:
+      - .:/app
+    depends_on:
+      - app
+      - redis
+
+  redis:
+    image: redis:6-alpine
+
+  worker-dashboard:
+    build: .
+    command:  celery --app API.api_worker flower --port=5550 --broker=redis://redis:6379/
+    ports:
+      - 5550:5550
+    depends_on:
+      - app
+      - redis
+      - worker
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Docker/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
similarity index 93%
rename from Docker/entrypoint.sh
rename to entrypoint.sh
index da1b9d3e..9d0b563d 100644
--- a/Docker/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
+#!/bin/sh
 if [[ -z "${GALAXY_API_CONFIG_FILE}" ]]; then
     printf "Error: GALAXY_API_CONFIG_FILE environment variable missing.. Exiting!"
     exit 1
diff --git a/requirements.docker.txt b/requirements.docker.txt
index 8ad35583..9d0a5f1b 100644
--- a/requirements.docker.txt
+++ b/requirements.docker.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 aiofiles==0.7.0
 asgiref==3.3.4
-click==8.0.1
+click==8.0.3
 fastapi==0.65.2
 h11==0.12.0
 importlib-metadata==4.5.0
@@ -28,5 +28,8 @@ orjson==3.6.7
 boto3==1.24.38
 Fiona==1.8.21
 fastapi-versioning==0.10.0
-#gdal and ogr2ogr is required on the machine to run rawdata endpoint 
-#gdal == 3.3.2
+redis==4.3.4
+celery==5.2.7
+flower==1.2.0
+#gdal and ogr2ogr is required on the machine to run rawdata endpoint
+# gdal == 3.3.2
diff --git a/src/config.txt.sample b/src/config.txt.sample
index 98174af1..a178dcc7 100644
--- a/src/config.txt.sample
+++ b/src/config.txt.sample
@@ -43,20 +43,24 @@ env=dev
 #export_path=exports/ # used to store export path
 #api_host=http://127.0.0.1
 #api_port=8000
-#max_area=100000 # max area to support for rawdata input 
-#use_connection_pooling=True 
+#max_area=100000 # max area to support for rawdata input
+#use_connection_pooling=True
 #log_level=info #options are info,debug,warning,error
 #env=dev # default is prod , supported values are dev and prod
 #shp_limit=6000 # in mb default is 4096
 
 #[EXPORT_UPLOAD]
-#FILE_UPLOAD_METHOD=disk # options are s3,disk 
-#AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= your id 
-#AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= yourkey 
-#BUCKET_NAME= your bucket name 
+#FILE_UPLOAD_METHOD=disk # options are s3,disk
+#AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= your id
+#AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= yourkey
+#BUCKET_NAME= your bucket name
 
 #[TM]
 #host=
 #user=
 #password=
 #port=
+
+#[CELERY]
+#CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://localhost:6379
+#CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://localhost:6379