diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7ce6fb1..056d8b3 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
 FROM centos:latest
 # OS setup
 RUN yum install -y make golang git
-RUN mkdir -p /app/dispatchd
-RUN yum install -y python-setuptools.noarch
+RUN mkdir -p /app/dispatchd && mkdir -p /data/dispatchd/
+RUN yum install -y python-setuptools.noarch gcc-c++ glibc-headers
 RUN easy_install mako
-RUN yum install -y gcc-c++ glibc-headers
 
 # protobuf
 RUN cd /tmp && curl -L -o protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz  https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.6.1/protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
@@ -16,14 +15,13 @@ RUN cd /tmp && tar -xzf protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
 RUN cd /tmp/protobuf-2.6.1/ && ./configure && make install
 
 # Build dispatchd
-RUN mkdir -p /app/dispatchd/src/github.com/jeffjenkins/dispatchd/
-COPY . /app/dispatchd/src/github.com/jeffjenkins/dispatchd/
+ENV BUILD_DIR /app/dispatchd/src/github.com/jeffjenkins/dispatchd/
+RUN mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
+COPY . $BUILD_DIR
 ENV GOPATH /app/dispatchd
-RUN cd /app/dispatchd/src/github.com/jeffjenkins/dispatchd/ && PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin make install
+RUN cd $BUILD_DIR && PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin make install
 
 # Runtime configuration
-# TODO: when running for real this should have a volume for
-#       the database directories
-RUN mkdir -p /data/dispatchd/
-ENV STATIC_PATH /app/dispatchd/src/github.com/jeffjenkins/dispatchd/static
-ENTRYPOINT ["/app/dispatchd/bin/server"]
+ENV STATIC_PATH $BUILD_DIR/static
+RUN cp $BUILD_DIR/config.default.json /etc/dispatchd.json
+CMD ["/app/dispatchd/bin/server", "-config-file=/etc/dispatchd.json", "-persist-dir=/data/dispatchd/"]
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fcda1dc..21065ed 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ protoc_present:
 	which protoc
 
 deps:
-	go get github.com/boltdb/bolt
-	go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto
-	go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto
-	go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo
-	go get github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics
-	go get github.com/streadway/amqp
-	go get github.com/wadey/gocovmerge
-	go get golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt
+	go get github.com/boltdb/bolt \
+		github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto \
+		github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto \
+		github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo \
+		github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics \
+		github.com/streadway/amqp \
+		github.com/wadey/gocovmerge \
+		golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt
 
 gen_all: deps gen_pb gen_amqp
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bd77de8..862deb8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,9 +41,19 @@ These options can be overridden if `-config-file` is specified. The config file
 
 Right now the only config file exclusive options are for users and passwords. In the future the config file will have tuning parameters as well.
 
-## Packages
+## Running Dispatchd
 
-Dispatchd is currently only packaged as a docker image
+Dispatchd is currently only packaged as a docker image. You can run it with this command:
+
+    docker run \
+      -p=8080:8080 \
+      -p=5672:5672 \
+      --volume=YOUR_CONFIG_FILE:/etc/dispatchd.json \
+      --volume=YOUR_DATA_DIR:/data/dispatchd/ \
+      dispatchd/dispatchd
+
+Config file can be left out for the default behaviors. The data volume needs
+to be specified so that data is persisted outside of the container.
 
 ## Security/Auth
 
diff --git a/config.default.json b/config.default.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..374b191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.default.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "amqp-port" : 1111,
+  "users" : {
+    "guest" : {
+      "password_bcrypt_base64" : "JDJhJDExJENobGk4dG5rY0RGemJhTjhsV21xR3VNNnFZZ1ZqTzUzQWxtbGtyMHRYN3RkUHMuYjF5SUt5"
+    }
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev/config.json b/dev/config.json
index 374b191..1fe3430 100644
--- a/dev/config.json
+++ b/dev/config.json
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "amqp-port" : 1111,
   "users" : {
     "guest" : {
       "password_bcrypt_base64" : "JDJhJDExJENobGk4dG5rY0RGemJhTjhsV21xR3VNNnFZZ1ZqTzUzQWxtbGtyMHRYN3RkUHMuYjF5SUt5"