diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e1a76b7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+FROM ghcr.io/sartography/python:3.11
+
+RUN pip install poetry
+RUN useradd _gunicorn --no-create-home --user-group
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y -q \
+        gcc libssl-dev \
+        curl gunicorn3
+
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY pyproject.toml poetry.lock /app/
+RUN poetry install --without dev
+
+RUN set -xe \
+  && apt-get remove -y gcc python3-dev libssl-dev \
+  && apt-get autoremove -y \
+  && apt-get clean -y \
+  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY . /app/
+
+# run poetry install again AFTER copying the app into the image
+# otherwise it does not know what the main app module is
+RUN poetry install --without dev
+
+CMD ./bin/boot_server_in_docker
diff --git a/bin/boot_server_in_docker b/bin/boot_server_in_docker
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1179bf5bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/boot_server_in_docker
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+function error_handler() {
+  >&2 echo "Exited with BAD EXIT CODE '${2}' in ${0} script at line: ${1}."
+  exit "$2"
+}
+trap 'error_handler ${LINENO} $?' ERR
+set -o errtrace -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
+
+port="${CONNECTOR_PROXY_PORT:-}"
+if [[ -z "$port" ]]; then
+  port=7004
+fi
+
+workers=3
+
+# THIS MUST BE THE LAST COMMAND!
+# default --limit-request-line is 4094. see https://stackoverflow.com/a/66688382/6090676
+exec poetry run gunicorn --bind "0.0.0.0:$port" --workers="$workers" --limit-request-line 8192 --timeout 90 --capture-output --access-logfile '-' --log-level debug app:app
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 9147d0315..d7798e2dc 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-unicode_backport = ["unicodedata2"]
+unicode-backport = ["unicodedata2"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "click"
@@ -127,6 +127,23 @@ Flask = "*"
 oauthlib = ">=1.1.2,<2.0.3 || >2.0.3,<2.0.4 || >2.0.4,<2.0.5 || >2.0.5,<3.0.0"
 requests-oauthlib = ">=0.6.2,<1.2.0"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "gunicorn"
+version = "20.1.0"
+description = "WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+setuptools = ">=3.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+eventlet = ["eventlet (>=0.24.1)"]
+gevent = ["gevent (>=1.4.0)"]
+setproctitle = ["setproctitle"]
+tornado = ["tornado (>=0.2)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "idna"
 version = "3.4"
@@ -214,7 +231,7 @@ urllib3 = ">=1.21.1,<1.27"
 
 [package.extras]
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7)"]
-use_chardet_on_py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<6)"]
+use-chardet-on-py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "requests-oauthlib"
@@ -245,6 +262,19 @@ botocore = ">=1.12.36,<2.0a.0"
 [package.extras]
 crt = ["botocore[crt] (>=1.20.29,<2.0a.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "setuptools"
+version = "65.6.0"
+description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo", "jaraco.packaging (>=9)", "jaraco.tidelift (>=1.4)", "pygments-github-lexers (==0.0.5)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx (>=3.5)", "sphinx-favicon", "sphinx-hoverxref (<2)", "sphinx-inline-tabs", "sphinx-notfound-page (==0.8.3)", "sphinx-reredirects", "sphinxcontrib-towncrier"]
+testing = ["build[virtualenv]", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "flake8 (<5)", "flake8-2020", "ini2toml[lite] (>=0.9)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "pip (>=19.1)", "pip-run (>=8.8)", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-enabler (>=1.3)", "pytest-flake8", "pytest-mypy (>=0.9.1)", "pytest-perf", "pytest-timeout", "pytest-xdist", "tomli-w (>=1.0.0)", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
+testing-integration = ["build[virtualenv]", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "jaraco.envs (>=2.2)", "jaraco.path (>=3.2.0)", "pytest", "pytest-enabler", "pytest-xdist", "tomli", "virtualenv (>=13.0.0)", "wheel"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "simplejson"
 version = "3.17.6"
@@ -310,7 +340,7 @@ watchdog = ["watchdog"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "86cf682d49dc495c8cf6dc60a8aedc31ad32a293e6ceaf7b1428e0c232f8319e"
+content-hash = "cc395c0c1ce2b0b7ca063a17617981b2d55db39802265b36f0bc3c4383c89919"
 
 [metadata.files]
 boto3 = [
@@ -350,6 +380,10 @@ Flask-OAuthlib = [
     {file = "Flask-OAuthlib-0.9.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:5bb79c8a8e670c2eb4cb553dfc3283b6c8d1202f674934676dc173cee94fe39c"},
     {file = "Flask_OAuthlib-0.9.6-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a5c3b62959aa1922470a62b6ebf4273b75f1c29561a7eb4a69cde85d45a1d669"},
 ]
+gunicorn = [
+    {file = "gunicorn-20.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9dcc4547dbb1cb284accfb15ab5667a0e5d1881cc443e0677b4882a4067a807e"},
+    {file = "gunicorn-20.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e0a968b5ba15f8a328fdfd7ab1fcb5af4470c28aaf7e55df02a99bc13138e6e8"},
+]
 idna = [
     {file = "idna-3.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:90b77e79eaa3eba6de819a0c442c0b4ceefc341a7a2ab77d7562bf49f425c5c2"},
     {file = "idna-3.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:814f528e8dead7d329833b91c5faa87d60bf71824cd12a7530b5526063d02cb4"},
@@ -428,6 +462,10 @@ s3transfer = [
     {file = "s3transfer-0.6.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:06176b74f3a15f61f1b4f25a1fc29a4429040b7647133a463da8fa5bd28d5ecd"},
     {file = "s3transfer-0.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2ed07d3866f523cc561bf4a00fc5535827981b117dd7876f036b0c1aca42c947"},
 ]
+setuptools = [
+    {file = "setuptools-65.6.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:6211d2f5eddad8757bd0484923ca7c0a6302ebc4ab32ea5e94357176e0ca0840"},
+    {file = "setuptools-65.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d1eebf881c6114e51df1664bc2c9133d022f78d12d5f4f665b9191f084e2862d"},
+]
 simplejson = [
     {file = "simplejson-3.17.6-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:a89acae02b2975b1f8e4974cb8cdf9bf9f6c91162fb8dec50c259ce700f2770a"},
     {file = "simplejson-3.17.6-cp27-cp27m-manylinux1_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:82ff356ff91be0ab2293fc6d8d262451eb6ac4fd999244c4b5f863e049ba219c"},
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9a6f51f88..8acd820e6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ description = "An example showing how to use the Spiffworkflow-proxy's Flask Blu
 authors = ["Dan <dan@sartography.com>"]
 license = "LGPL"
 readme = "README.md"
-packages = [{include = "connector_proxy_demo", from = "src"}]
+#packages = [{include = "connector_proxy_demo", from = "."}]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.10"
 Flask = "^2.2.2"
 spiffworkflow-proxy = {git = "https://github.com/sartography/spiffworkflow-proxy"}
 connector-aws = { git = "https://github.com/sartography/connector-aws.git"}
-
+gunicorn = "^20.1.0"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core"]
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 pythonpath = [
-  ".", "src",
+  "."
 ]
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