diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-push-image.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-push-image.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a805ed2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-push-image.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Build and push image
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  build-and-push-image:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      IMAGE_NAME: "oc4ids-datastore-api"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          registry: ghcr.io
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Extract version
+        run: |
+          TAG=${GITHUB_REF#refs/*/}
+          echo "VERSION=${TAG#v}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Print version
+        run: echo $VERSION
+      - name: Build and push image
+        run: |
+          IMAGE_ID=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/$IMAGE_NAME
+          IMAGE_ID=$(echo $IMAGE_ID | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
+          echo $IMAGE_ID
+          docker build . -t ${IMAGE_ID}:${VERSION} -t ${IMAGE_ID}:latest
+          docker push --all-tags ${IMAGE_ID}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 4f2ac72..960e766 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -23,3 +23,5 @@ jobs:
         run: mypy oc4ids_datastore_api/ tests/
       - name: Run tests
         run: pytest
+      - name: Build docker image
+        run: docker build -t oc4ids-datastore-api .
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c682d4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+FROM python:3.12-slim
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+  && apt-get install -y libpq-dev gcc
+
+WORKDIR /oc4ids_datastore_api
+
+COPY requirements.txt .
+
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+COPY . .
+
+RUN pip install .
+
+EXPOSE 8000
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["fastapi", "run", "oc4ids_datastore_api/main.py"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8510221..2fab362 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,3 +40,7 @@ isort oc4ids_datastore_api/ tests/
 flake8 oc4ids_datastore_api/ tests/
 mypy oc4ids_datastore_api/ tests/
 ```
+
+## Releasing
+
+To publish a new version, raise a PR to `main` updating the version in `pyproject.toml`. Once merged, create a git tag and GitHub release for the new version, with naming `vX.Y.Z`. This will trigger a docker image to to be built and pushed, tagged with the version and `latest`.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a2d202
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt pyproject.toml
+#
+annotated-types==0.7.0
+    # via pydantic
+anyio==4.8.0
+    # via
+    #   httpx
+    #   starlette
+    #   watchfiles
+certifi==2025.1.31
+    # via
+    #   httpcore
+    #   httpx
+click==8.1.8
+    # via
+    #   rich-toolkit
+    #   typer
+    #   uvicorn
+dnspython==2.7.0
+    # via email-validator
+email-validator==2.2.0
+    # via fastapi
+fastapi[standard]==0.115.8
+    # via oc4ids-datastore-api (pyproject.toml)
+fastapi-cli[standard]==0.0.7
+    # via fastapi
+h11==0.14.0
+    # via
+    #   httpcore
+    #   uvicorn
+httpcore==1.0.7
+    # via httpx
+httptools==0.6.4
+    # via uvicorn
+httpx==0.28.1
+    # via fastapi
+idna==3.10
+    # via
+    #   anyio
+    #   email-validator
+    #   httpx
+jinja2==3.1.5
+    # via fastapi
+markdown-it-py==3.0.0
+    # via rich
+markupsafe==3.0.2
+    # via jinja2
+mdurl==0.1.2
+    # via markdown-it-py
+psycopg2==2.9.10
+    # via oc4ids-datastore-api (pyproject.toml)
+pydantic==2.10.6
+    # via
+    #   fastapi
+    #   sqlmodel
+pydantic-core==2.27.2
+    # via pydantic
+pygments==2.19.1
+    # via rich
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
+    # via uvicorn
+python-multipart==0.0.20
+    # via fastapi
+pyyaml==6.0.2
+    # via uvicorn
+rich==13.9.4
+    # via
+    #   rich-toolkit
+    #   typer
+rich-toolkit==0.13.2
+    # via fastapi-cli
+shellingham==1.5.4
+    # via typer
+sniffio==1.3.1
+    # via anyio
+sqlalchemy==2.0.38
+    # via sqlmodel
+sqlmodel==0.0.22
+    # via oc4ids-datastore-api (pyproject.toml)
+starlette==0.45.3
+    # via fastapi
+typer==0.15.1
+    # via fastapi-cli
+typing-extensions==4.12.2
+    # via
+    #   anyio
+    #   fastapi
+    #   pydantic
+    #   pydantic-core
+    #   rich-toolkit
+    #   sqlalchemy
+    #   typer
+uvicorn[standard]==0.34.0
+    # via
+    #   fastapi
+    #   fastapi-cli
+uvloop==0.21.0
+    # via uvicorn
+watchfiles==1.0.4
+    # via uvicorn
+websockets==14.2
+    # via uvicorn