diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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+DOCKER_COMPOSE = COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=1 DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker compose -p bma -f docker/compose.yaml
+DOCKER_RUN = ${DOCKER_COMPOSE} run -u `id -u`
+MANAGE_EXEC = ${DOCKER_COMPOSE} exec app python /app/src/manage.py
+MANAGE_RUN = ${DOCKER_RUN} app python /app/src/manage.py
+PARALLEL=4
+TEST_OPTIONS = --failfast --keepdb --parallel ${PARALLEL}
+TEST_TO_RUN = .
+
+init: copy_env_file migrate
+
+run:
+	${DOCKER_COMPOSE} up
+
+migrate:
+	${MANAGE_RUN} $@ ${ARGS}
+
+makemigrations:
+	${MANAGE_RUN} $@ ${ARGS}
+
+bootstrap_devsite:
+	${MANAGE_RUN} $@ ${ARGS}
+
+shell:
+	${MANAGE_RUN} $@ ${ARGS}
+
+manage:
+	${MANAGE_RUN} ${COMMAND}
+
+test:
+	${DOCKER_RUN} app \
+		bash -c "cd /app/src/; python manage.py test $(TEST_OPTIONS) ${TEST_TO_RUN}"
+
+build_docker_image:
+	${DOCKER_COMPOSE} build app
+
+copy_env_file:
+	test -f src/bma/environment_settings.py || cp src/bma/environment_settings.py.dist src/bma/environment_settings.py
+	test -f docker/.env || cp docker/.env.dev docker/.env
diff --git a/docker/.env.dev b/docker/.env.dev
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+# Ports are purposefully selected to not conflict with default ports for bornhack-website
+db_port=5433
+web_port=8001
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
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+FROM python:3.10-slim-bullseye
+
+ENV PYTHONFAULTHANDLER=1 \
+  PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
+  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
+  PYTHONHASHSEED=random \
+  PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=off \
+  PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=on \
+  PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=100
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+  && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential \
+    binutils \
+    python3-dev \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-setuptools \
+    python3-cffi \
+    libxslt-dev \
+    libxml2-dev \
+    libxmlsec1-dev \
+    libpq-dev \
+    libjpeg-dev \
+    libgdal-dev \
+    wkhtmltopdf
+
+RUN --mount=type=bind,readwrite,source=.,target=/app \
+  pip3 install --no-cache-dir /app[dev,test]
+
+RUN groupadd -g 1000 www
+RUN useradd -u 1000 -ms /bin/bash -g www www
diff --git a/docker/compose.yaml b/docker/compose.yaml
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+services:
+    app:
+        build:
+          context: ..
+          dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
+        ports:
+          - "${web_port}:8000"
+        tty: true
+        stdin_open: true
+        command: python src/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
+        volumes:
+          - ..:/app
+        depends_on:
+          - db
+        environment:
+          - DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=a-long-randomsecret-key
+          - DJANGO_DEBUG=True
+          - DEBUG_TOOLBAR=True
+          - DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=localhost,127.0.0.1
+          - DJANGO_DATABASE_URL=postgres://bma:hunter12@db:5432/bma
+          - DJANGO_ADMIN_PREFIX=notadmin
+          - DJANGO_MEDIA_ROOT=/persist/django_media_root
+          - DJANGO_NGINX_PROXY=false
+          - DJANGO_LOG_LEVEL=INFO
+          - BMA_LOG_LEVEL=INFO
+          - DJANGO_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS=http://127.0.0.1:8000
+          - BMA_CREATOR_GROUP_NAME=creators
+          - BMA_MODERATOR_GROUP_NAME=moderators
+          - BMA_CURATOR_GROUP_NAME=curators
+    db:
+        image: postgis/postgis:14-3.3-alpine
+        environment:
+          - POSTGRES_USER=bma
+          - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=hunter12
+        ports:
+          - "${db_port}:5432"
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