diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5641cc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+FROM python:3.10-slim
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY requirements.txt .
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+COPY . .
+EXPOSE 8000
+RUN touch /app/users.db
+CMD ["uvicorn", "main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000", "--reload"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ca84471..67d2fcf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ cd SimpleFastPyAPI
 Install the project dependencies:
 
 ```bash
-pip install -r requirements.txt
+docker build -t SimpleFastPyAPI .
 ```
 
 Run the application:
 
 ```bash
-uvicorn main:app --reload
+docker run -p 8000:8000 -v $(pwd)/users.db:/app/users.db SimpleFastPyAPI
 ```
 
 The application will start and be available at http://localhost:8000.
diff --git a/app/database.py b/app/database.py
index ef1af1c..292e947 100644
--- a/app/database.py
+++ b/app/database.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
 
-
-DATABASE_URL = "sqlite:///../users.db"
+DATABASE_URL = "sqlite:///./users.db"
 
 engine = create_engine(DATABASE_URL)
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 15f748f..f2cc1e7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ requests==2.32.0
 rfc3986==1.5.0
 sniffio==1.3.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.4.47
-starlette==0.40.0
+starlette==0.35.0
 typing==3.7.4.3
-typing_extensions==4.5.0
+typing_extensions==4.8.0
 ujson==5.7.0
 urllib3==1.26.19
 uvicorn==0.21.1