diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+# Use the official Python 3.11 image
+# FROM --platform=arm64 python:3.11.4-bookworm
+# ARG BUILDPLATFORM
+FROM python:3.11.4-bookworm
+
+ENV PYTHONBUFFERED 1
+
+# Create directory
+RUN mkdir /code
+
+# Set the working directory to /code
+WORKDIR /code
+
+# Mirror the current directory to the working directory for hotreloading
+ADD . /code/
+
+# Install pipenv
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r linux-requirements.txt
+
+# Make migrations
+RUN python equipment_tracker/manage.py makemigrations
+
+# Run custom migrate
+RUN python equipment_tracker/manage.py migrate
+
+# Generate DRF Spectacular Documentation
+RUN python equipment_tracker/manage.py spectacular --color --file stude/schema.yml
+
+# Expose port 8000 for the web server
+EXPOSE 8000
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
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+version: "3.9"
+
+services:
+  # Django App
+  django_backend:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    image: equipmenttracker_backend:latest
+    ports:
+      - "8094:8000" # Expose port 8094 for the web server
+    environment:
+      - PYTHONBUFFERED=1
+    command:
+      [
+        "sh",
+        "-c",
+        "python equipment_tracker/manage.py spectacular --color --file stude/schema.yml && python equipment_tracker/manage.py collectstatic --noinput && python equipment_tracker/manage.py makemigrations && python equipment_tracker/manage.py migrate && python equipment_tracker/manage.py runserver",
+      ]
+    volumes:
+      - .:/code # For hotreloading
+volumes:
+  equipment_tracker:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+-i https://pypi.org/simple
+asgiref==3.7.2; python_version >= '3.7'
+attrs==23.1.0; python_version >= '3.7'
+certifi==2023.11.17; python_version >= '3.6'
+cffi==1.16.0; python_version >= '3.8'
+charset-normalizer==3.3.2; python_full_version >= '3.7.0'
+cryptography==41.0.7; python_version >= '3.7'
+defusedxml==0.8.0rc2; python_version >= '3.6'
+django==4.2.7
+django-cors-headers==4.3.1
+django-extra-fields==3.0.2
+django-simple-history==3.4.0
+django-templated-mail==1.1.1
+django-unfold==0.17.1
+djangorestframework==3.14.0
+djangorestframework-simplejwt==5.3.0; python_version >= '3.7'
+djoser==2.2.2
+drf-spectacular[sidecar]==0.26.5
+drf-spectacular-sidecar==2023.10.1
+idna==3.6; python_version >= '3.5'
+inflection==0.5.1; python_version >= '3.5'
+jsonschema==4.20.0; python_version >= '3.8'
+jsonschema-specifications==2023.11.2; python_version >= '3.8'
+oauthlib==3.2.2; python_version >= '3.6'
+pillow==10.1.0
+psycopg2==2.9.9
+pycparser==2.21
+pyjwt==2.8.0; python_version >= '3.7'
+python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python3-openid==3.2.0
+pytz==2023.3.post1
+pyyaml==6.0.1; python_version >= '3.6'
+referencing==0.31.1; python_version >= '3.8'
+requests==2.31.0; python_version >= '3.7'
+requests-oauthlib==1.3.1; python_version >= '2.7' and python_version not in '3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3'
+rpds-py==0.13.2; python_version >= '3.8'
+social-auth-app-django==5.4.0; python_version >= '3.8'
+social-auth-core==4.5.1; python_version >= '3.8'
+sqlparse==0.4.4; python_version >= '3.5'
+tzdata==2023.3; sys_platform == 'win32'
+uritemplate==4.1.1; python_version >= '3.6'
+urllib3==2.1.0; python_version >= '3.8'
+whitenoise==6.6.0