diff --git a/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml b/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml
index f4761152..6b1ed9b9 100644
--- a/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/services/simcore/docker-compose.yml
@@ -376,6 +376,27 @@ services:
           cpus: "1"
           memory: "3G"
 
+  sto-worker:
+    networks:
+      - monitored
+    deploy:
+      replicas: ${SIMCORE_STO_WORKER_REPLICAS}
+      update_config:
+        parallelism: 2
+        order: start-first
+        failure_action: continue
+        delay: 10s
+      placement:
+        constraints:
+          - node.labels.simcore==true
+      resources:
+        reservations:
+          cpus: "0.1"
+          memory: "350M"
+        limits:
+          cpus: "1"
+          memory: "700M"
+
   director:
     # Certificate necessary for local deploiement only
     #secrets: