diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/Dockerfile b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb319026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+FROM python:2.7
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
+
+RUN groupadd -r django && useradd -r -g django django
+
+RUN apt-get update
+RUN apt-get -y install libmemcached-dev
+
+# Requirements have to be pulled and installed here, otherwise caching won't work
+ADD ./requirements /requirements
+ADD ./requirements.txt /requirements.txt
+
+RUN pip install -r /requirements.txt
+RUN pip install -r /requirements/local.txt
+
+ADD . /app
+
+ADD ./compose/django/gunicorn.sh /gunicorn.sh
+ADD ./compose/django/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+
+RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
+RUN chmod +x /gunicorn.sh
+
+RUN chown -R django /app
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
index 81f5d58e..5a2fa450 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ The testing framework runs Django, Celery (if enabled), Postgres, HitchSMTP (a m
 Deployment
 ----------
 
-It is possible to deploy to Heroku or to your own server by using Dokku, an open source Heroku clone.
+It is possible to deploy to Heroku, to your own server by using Dokku, an open source Heroku clone or using docker-compose.
 
 Heroku
 ^^^^^^
@@ -277,3 +277,17 @@ You can then deploy by running the following commands.
     ssh -t dokku@yourservername.com dokku run {{cookiecutter.repo_name}} python manage.py createsuperuser
 
 When deploying via Dokku make sure you backup your database in some fashion as it is NOT done automatically.
+
+Docker
+^^^^^^
+
+You need a working docker and docker-compose installation on your production server.
+
+To get started, clone the git repo containing your projects code and set all needed environment variables in
+``env.production``.
+
+To start docker-compose in the foreground, run:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    docker-compose up
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/django/entrypoint.sh b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/django/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7b3ae746
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/django/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# setting up environment variables to work with DATABASE_URL and DJANGO_CACHE_URL
+export DJANGO_CACHE_URL=redis://redis:6379
+
+if [ -z "$POSTGRES_ENV_POSTGRES_USER" ]; then
+    export POSTGRES_ENV_POSTGRES_USER=postgres
+fi 
+
+export DATABASE_URL=postgres://$POSTGRES_ENV_POSTGRES_USER:$POSTGRES_ENV_POSTGRES_PASSWORD@postgres:5432/$POSTGRES_ENV_POSTGRES_USER
+{% if cookiecutter.use_celery %}
+export CELERY_BROKER_URL=amqp://guest:guest@rabbitmq:5672//
+{% endif %}
+exec "$@"
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/django/gunicorn.sh b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/django/gunicorn.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3f9f09ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/django/gunicorn.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+su -m django -c "python /app/manage.py collectstatic --noinput"
+su -m django -c "/usr/local/bin/gunicorn config.wsgi -w 4 -b 0.0.0.0:5000 --chdir=/app"
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/nginx/Dockerfile b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/nginx/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..19639576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/nginx/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+FROM nginx:latest
+ADD nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/nginx/nginx.conf b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/nginx/nginx.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..720b22e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/compose/nginx/nginx.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+user  nginx;
+worker_processes  1;
+
+error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
+pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
+
+
+events {
+    worker_connections  1024;
+}
+
+
+http {
+    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    default_type  application/octet-stream;
+
+    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
+                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
+                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
+
+    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
+
+    sendfile        on;
+    #tcp_nopush     on;
+
+    keepalive_timeout  65;
+
+    #gzip  on;
+
+    upstream app {
+        server django:5000;
+    }
+
+    server {
+        listen 80;
+        charset     utf-8;
+
+
+        location / {
+            # checks for static file, if not found proxy to app
+            try_files $uri @proxy_to_app;
+        }
+
+        location @proxy_to_app {
+            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+            proxy_redirect off;
+
+            proxy_pass   http://app;
+        }
+
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/dev.yml b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/dev.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98146ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/dev.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+postgres:
+  image: postgres
+  volumes:
+    # If you are using boot2docker, postgres data has to live in the VM for now until #581 is fixed
+    # for more info see here: https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/581
+    - /data/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+
+django:
+  build: .
+  command: python /app/manage.py runserver_plus 0.0.0.0:8000
+  volumes:
+    - .:/app
+  ports:
+    - "8000:8000"
+  links:
+    - postgres
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/docker-compose.yml b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f8154c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+postgres:
+  image: postgres:9.4
+  volumes:
+    - /data/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+  env_file: env.production
+
+django:
+  build: .
+  links:
+    - postgres
+    - redis
+    {% if cookiecutter.use_celery %}
+    - rabbitmq
+    {% endif %}
+  command: /gunicorn.sh
+  env_file: env.production
+
+nginx:
+  build: ./compose/nginx
+  links:
+    - django
+  ports:
+    - "0.0.0.0:80:80"
+
+redis:
+  image: redis:3.0
+{% if cookiecutter.use_celery %}
+rabbitmq:
+  image: rabbitmq
+
+celeryworker:
+  build: .
+  env_file: env.production
+  links:
+   - rabbitmq
+   - postgres
+   - redis
+  command: su -m django -c "celery -A {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}.taskapp worker -l INFO"
+
+celerybeat:
+  build: .
+  env_file: env.production
+  links:
+    - rabbitmq
+    - postgres
+    - redis
+  command: su -m django -c "celery -A {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}.taskapp beat -l INFO"
+{% endif %}
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diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/env.production b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/env.production
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b4375324
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/env.production
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpass
+POSTGRES_USER=postgresuser
+
+DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.production
+DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=
+DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
+DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
+DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=
+DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY=
+DJANGO_MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME=
+DJANGO_SERVER_EMAIL=
+DJANGO_SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=False
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