diff --git a/buscribe-api/Dockerfile b/buscribe-api/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8762e11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buscribe-api/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+FROM alpine:3.14
+# dependencies needed for compiling c extensions
+# also busybox-extras for telnet for easier use of backdoor
+RUN apk --update add py3-pip g++ python3-dev libffi-dev musl-dev postgresql-dev file make busybox-extras
+
+# Install gevent so that we don't need to re-install it when common changes
+RUN pip install gevent==1.5a2 greenlet==0.4.16
+
+# Install common lib first as it changes less
+COPY common /tmp/common
+RUN pip install /tmp/common && rm -r /tmp/common
+
+# Install actual application
+RUN apk add postgresql-dev postgresql-libs
+COPY buscribe-api /tmp/buscribe-api
+RUN pip install /tmp/buscribe-api && rm -r /tmp/buscribe-api
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["python3", "-m", "buscribeapi"]
diff --git a/buscribe-api/setup.py b/buscribe-api/setup.py
index ba92f10..7f57630 100644
--- a/buscribe-api/setup.py
+++ b/buscribe-api/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires = [
         "argh",
         "psycopg2",
-        "gevent",
+        "gevent==1.5a2",
         "greenlet==0.4.16",
         "psycogreen",
         "wubloader-common",