diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index 6a40cc3..1884a5f 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
+# We Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
 FROM python:3.12-slim
 
+# Allows docker to cache installed dependencies between builds
 COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
-RUN pip install coverage
-
-RUN mkdir /app
-COPY . /app
+# Mounts the application code to the image
+COPY . app
 WORKDIR /app
 
-CMD ["sh", "-c", "python manage.py migrate && coverage run --source='.' manage.py test && coverage report"]
+EXPOSE 8000
+
+# Runs migrations and starts the production server
+CMD ["sh", "-c", "python manage.py migrate && python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"]