diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c4f9da37109c1b3962d270594c1351c2b8df0619..8d179095c9cfa42f324b5e182dd10910a9cc4956 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 stages:
   - test
+  - build
 
 variables:
   DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
@@ -15,3 +16,26 @@ test:
     - flake8
     - django-admin makemigrations --dry-run --check --noinput --settings=self_registration.settings.development
     - django-admin test --settings=self_registration.settings.development
+
+build:
+  stage: build
+  image: docker
+  services:
+    - docker:dind
+  before_script:
+    - docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_JOB_TOKEN registry.git.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
+    - docker pull $CONTAINER_IMAGE:latest || true
+  script:
+    - docker build --cache-from $CONTAINER_IMAGE:latest -t $CONTAINER_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME .
+  after_script:
+    - >
+      if [ "$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME" == "main" ]; then
+        docker tag $CONTAINER_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME $CONTAINER_IMAGE:latest
+        docker push $CONTAINER_IMAGE:latest
+      fi
+    - >
+      if [ -n "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" ]; then
+        docker tag $CONTAINER_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME $CONTAINER_IMAGE:stable
+        docker push $CONTAINER_IMAGE:$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
+        docker push $CONTAINER_IMAGE:stable
+      fi
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0294dff125fda8d7913fa735465a9a5c6b8a0b97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+FROM node:14.17.4
+COPY package.json .
+RUN npm install --production
+
+FROM alpine:3.13.5
+
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
+ENV PKGS gettext python3 py3-pip py3-wheel uwsgi uwsgi-python py3-psycopg2 py3-pyldap
+
+RUN adduser -D -g '' uwsgi
+
+RUN apk update && apk add $PKGS
+
+WORKDIR code/
+COPY setup.cfg setup.py uwsgi.ini LICENSE ./
+COPY --from=0 node_modules/ node_modules
+
+RUN pip3 install -e . && \
+    pip3 install django-auth-ldap
+
+COPY self_registration/ self_registration
+
+RUN django-admin collectstatic --no-input --settings=self_registration.settings.development && \
+    django-admin compilemessages -l de
+
+CMD uwsgi uwsgi.ini --die-on-term
diff --git a/self_registration/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po b/self_registration/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e19b5afe5db5fa9f213522e852936491622f713b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/self_registration/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2020-11-11 17:23+0000\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: \n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
diff --git a/uwsgi.ini b/uwsgi.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68a8c8eda38f98fd8f03d9682fbfd478f690200f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uwsgi.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[uwsgi]
+master=true
+chdir=/code
+uid=uwsgi
+threads=4
+disable-logging=True
+
+socket=0.0.0.0:8000
+protocol=http
+static-map=/static=/code/self_registration/collected_static
+static-map=/favicon.ico=/code/self_registration/collected_static/images/favicon.ico
+
+wsgi-file=self_registration/wsgi.py
+plugin=python