diff --git a/Dockerfile.base b/Dockerfile.base
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+# Read the Docs - Environment base
+# docker build -f Dockerfile.base -t readthedocs/build:docker-compose --build-arg UID=1000 --build-arg GID=100 --build-arg GROUPNAME=users --build-arg DOCKER_GID=991 .
+
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+MAINTAINER Read the Docs <support@readthedocs.com>
+
+ARG UID=1000
+ARG GID=100
+ARG GROUPNAME=users
+ARG DOCKER_GID=991
+
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+
+# System dependencies
+RUN apt-get -y update
+
+# Install requirements
+RUN apt-get -y install \
+    git-core \
+    postgresql-client 
+
+# Install Python tools/libs
+RUN apt-get -y install python-pip
+
+RUN apt-get -y install wget
+
+RUN apt-get -y install python3 python3-venv
+RUN apt-get -y install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev
+
+
+# https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/pull/3152#issuecomment-339573168
+# RUN groupadd --gid ${GID} ${GROUPNAME}
+RUN useradd --uid ${UID} --gid ${GID} docs
+
+# Create the `docker` group with our specific GID
+RUN groupadd --gid ${DOCKER_GID} docker
+
+# Add `docs` user to the `docker` group so it run containers
+RUN gpasswd -a docs docker
+RUN apt-get -y install docker.io
+
+# Download latest pip requirements for the project
+RUN pip install -U pip
+RUN wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/master/requirements/pip.txt -O requirements.txt
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# Install some python utilities
+RUN pip install ipdb dj-cmd
+
+USER docs
+WORKDIR /home/docs/readthedocs.org
+
+
+CMD ["/bin/bash"]
diff --git a/Dockerfile.devbuild b/Dockerfile.devbuild
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+# Read the Docs - Environment base
+# docker build -f Dockerfile.devbuild -t readthedocs/build:dev --build-arg UID=1000 --build-arg GID=100 --build-arg GROUPNAME=users .
+
+FROM readthedocs/build:2.0
+
+ARG UID=1000
+ARG GID=100
+ARG GROUPNAME=users
+
+# https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/pull/3152#issuecomment-339573168
+USER root
+# RUN groupadd --gid ${GID} ${GROUPNAME}
+RUN usermod --uid ${UID} --gid ${GID} docs
+USER docs
+
+CMD ["/bin/bash"]
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
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+++ b/docker-compose.yml
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+version: '3.3'
+
+services:
+
+  readthedocs:
+    image: readthedocs/build:docker-compose
+    command: "./docker/run.sh"
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+      - "8088:8088"
+    links:
+      - redis
+    volumes:
+      # mount docker unix socket to be able to run containers in the host from inside this container
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+      - .:/home/docs/readthedocs.org
+    environment:
+      DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: readthedocs.settings.docker
+      DJANGO_SETTINGS_SKIP_LOCAL: 1
+
+
+  # DEPENDENCIES
+
+  redis:
+    image: redis
+
+  # TODO: run celery workers
diff --git a/docker/create_superuser.py b/docker/create_superuser.py
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+++ b/docker/create_superuser.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from allauth.account.models import EmailAddress
+
+query = User.objects.filter(username='admin')
+if not query.exists():
+    admin = User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'admin@example.com', 'admin')
+    EmailAddress.objects.create(user=admin, email='admin@example.com', primary=True, verified=True)
+    print('`admin` user created')
+else:
+    print('`admin` user already exists')
+
+print('Exit.')
diff --git a/docker/run.sh b/docker/run.sh
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+++ b/docker/run.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+python manage.py migrate
+
+python manage.py shell < docker/create_superuser.py
+
+python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
+python manage.py loaddata test_data
+
+python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
diff --git a/readthedocs/settings/docker.py b/readthedocs/settings/docker.py
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+"""Local development settings, including local_settings, if present."""
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+import os
+
+from .base import CommunityBaseSettings
+
+
+class CommunityDevSettings(CommunityBaseSettings):
+
+    """Settings for local development"""
+
+    PRODUCTION_DOMAIN = '0.0.0.0:8000'
+    WEBSOCKET_HOST = '0.0.0.0:8088'
+
+    @property
+    def DATABASES(self):  # noqa
+        return {
+            'default': {
+                'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+                'NAME': os.path.join(self.SITE_ROOT, 'docker.db'),
+            }
+        }
+
+    DONT_HIT_DB = False
+
+    SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = None
+    CACHES = {
+        'default': {
+            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache',
+            'PREFIX': 'docs',
+        }
+    }
+
+    SLUMBER_USERNAME = 'test'
+    SLUMBER_PASSWORD = 'test'  # noqa: ignore dodgy check
+    SLUMBER_API_HOST = 'http://0.0.0.0:8000'
+    PUBLIC_API_URL = 'http://0.0.0.0:8000'
+
+    BROKER_URL = 'redis://redis:6379/0'
+    CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://redis:6379/0'
+    CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER = 'json'
+    CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
+
+    HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
+        'default': {
+            'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.simple_backend.SimpleEngine',
+        },
+    }
+
+    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
+    FILE_SYNCER = 'readthedocs.builds.syncers.LocalSyncer'
+
+    # For testing locally. Put this in your /etc/hosts:
+    # 127.0.0.1 test
+    # and navigate to http://test:8000
+    CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = (
+        'test:8000',
+    )
+
+    # Build documentation using docker image
+    DOCKER_ENABLE = True
+
+    # https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/pull/3152#issuecomment-339573168
+    DOCKER_IMAGE = 'readthedocs/build:dev'
+
+    # https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/pull/3243#issuecomment-343551486
+    DOCKER_VERSION = '1.17'
+
+
+    @property
+    def LOGGING(self):  # noqa - avoid pep8 N802
+        logging = super(CommunityDevSettings, self).LOGGING
+        logging['formatters']['default']['format'] = '[%(asctime)s] ' + self.LOG_FORMAT
+        # Remove double logging
+        logging['loggers']['']['handlers'] = []
+        return logging
+
+
+CommunityDevSettings.load_settings(__name__)
+
+if not os.environ.get('DJANGO_SETTINGS_SKIP_LOCAL', False):
+    try:
+        # pylint: disable=unused-wildcard-import
+        from .local_settings import *  # noqa
+    except ImportError:
+        pass