diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
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+FROM python:3.9-slim-bullseye
+
+# Set the environment
+ARG AUTOSUBMIT_ROOT_DIR=/app/autosubmit/
+
+WORKDIR "${AUTOSUBMIT_ROOT_DIR}"
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git graphviz gcc lsof && \
+  apt-get clean && \
+  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install Autosubmit API 
+# If GIT_REF is set, it will install from the specified branch/tag/commit. 
+# Otherwise, if AUTOSUBMIT_VERSION is set, it will install the specified version from pypi.
+# Otherwise, it will install the latest version from pypi.
+ARG GIT_REF
+ARG AUTOSUBMIT_VERSION
+RUN if [ -n "${GIT_REF}" ] ; then \
+      pip3 install git+https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/autosubmit-api.git@${GIT_REF}; \
+    elif [ -n "${AUTOSUBMIT_VERSION}" ] ; then \
+      pip3 install autosubmit-api==${AUTOSUBMIT_VERSION}; \
+    else \
+      pip3 install autosubmit-api; \
+    fi
+
+COPY autosubmitrc /app/configs/autosubmitrc
+
+# Setup API env vars
+ENV PROTECTION_LEVEL=ALL
+ENV JWT_SECRET="k87;Zg,o5?MSC(/@#-LbzgE3PH-5ki.ZvS}N.s09v>I#v8I'00THrA-:ykh3HX?"
+
+ENV CAS_LOGIN_URL=""
+ENV CAS_VERIFY_URL=""
+
+ENV GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=""
+ENV GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=""
+ENV GITHUB_OAUTH_WHITELIST_ORGANIZATION=""
+ENV GITHUB_OAUTH_WHITELIST_TEAM=""
+
+ENV AUTOSUBMIT_CONFIGURATION="/app/configs/autosubmitrc"
+
+# Entrypoint
+ENTRYPOINT ["autosubmit_api"]
+CMD ["start", "-b=0.0.0.0:8000", "--log-file=api.log"]
diff --git a/docker/README.md b/docker/README.md
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+## Prerequisites
+
+* This image needs access to the files generated by autosubmit
+
+## Build
+
+To build the image you can execute `./build.sh`, or:
+
+```bash
+docker build -t autosubmit-api .
+```
+
+You can build with a different version of the API by running:
+
+```bash
+docker build --build-arg API_VERSION=4.0.0b5 -t autosubmit-api .
+```
+
+## Run
+
+### Default run
+
+If you followed the normal installation path of autosubmit (creating the autosubmit directory `~/autosubmit`). You can run `./run.sh`.
+
+Else, you can set which are the directories that holds your DDBB files and experiment directories like this:
+
+```bash
+docker run --name autosubmit-api-container \
+    --rm -d -p 8099:8000 \
+    -v ${YOUR_DB_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/database \
+    -v ${YOUR_EXPERIMENTS_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/experiments \
+    autosubmit-api
+```
+
+This will expose a default API instance on port `8099`.
+
+### Custom run (Recommended)
+
+Alternatively, you can run the command `autosubmit_api` with custom parameters by adding additional arguments like this:
+
+```bash
+# Run with 6 workers, log level DEBUG, and map from port 9000
+docker run --name autosubmit-api-container \
+    --rm -p 8099:9000 \
+    -v ${YOUR_DB_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/database \
+    -v ${YOUR_EXPERIMENTS_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/experiments \
+    autosubmit-api start -w=6 --log-level=DEBUG -b=0.0.0.0:9000
+```
+
+> **IMPORTANT** Always use the `-b` flag with `0.0.0.0` as the host to properly map the container API port
+
+
+## Environment Variables Configuration
+
+The `autosubmit_api` use env variables to configure some features like auth.
+
+Here is an example:
+
+```bash
+docker run --name autosubmit-api-container \
+    --rm -p 8099:9000 \
+    -v ${YOUR_DB_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/database \
+    -v ${YOUR_EXPERIMENTS_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/experiments \
+    -e "PROTECTION_LEVEL=NONE" \  # This will disable protection
+    autosubmit-api start -w=6 --log-level=DEBUG -b=0.0.0.0:9000
+```
+
+
+## Configuring the `.autosubmitrc`
+
+The default `.autosubmitrc` of this image is configured to use SQLite and uses some predefined paths like `/app/autosubmit/database` for the main DB files and `/app/autosubmit/experiments` for the experiments root directory.
+
+To modify it you have to make a new `.autosubmitrc` available in the container and mount its directory into the `/app/configs/` directory.
+
+```bash
+docker run --name autosubmit-api-container \
+    --rm -d -p 8099:8000 \
+    -v ${YOUR_DB_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/database \
+    -v ${YOUR_EXPERIMENTS_PATH}:/app/autosubmit/experiments \
+    -e "PROTECTION_LEVEL=NONE" \
+    -v ${YOUR_AUTOSUBMIT_CONFIGURATION_PATH}:/app/configs \ # Mount the directory with your .autosubmitrc file in the configs directory
+    autosubmit-api
+```
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diff --git a/docker/autosubmitrc b/docker/autosubmitrc
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+[database]
+path = /app/autosubmit/database
+backend = sqlite
+filename = autosubmit.db
+
+[local]
+path = /app/autosubmit/experiments
+
+[globallogs]
+path = /app/autosubmit/logs
diff --git a/docker/build.sh b/docker/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+docker build -t autosubmit-api --progress=plain . &> build.log
diff --git a/docker/run.sh b/docker/run.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+docker run --name autosubmit-api-container \
+    --rm -d -p 8099:8000 \
+    -v ~/autosubmit:/app/autosubmit/database \
+    -v ~/autosubmit:/app/autosubmit/experiments \
+    autosubmit-api
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diff --git a/docker/stop.sh b/docker/stop.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+docker stop autosubmit-api-container
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