diff --git a/infra/horreum-infra-common/pom.xml b/infra/horreum-infra-common/pom.xml
index 96334382b..84bfd9294 100644
--- a/infra/horreum-infra-common/pom.xml
+++ b/infra/horreum-infra-common/pom.xml
@@ -55,4 +55,26 @@
 
 
     </dependencies>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.2.1</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>generate-resources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>write-project-properties</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <outputFile>
+                                ${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/horreum.dev.properties
+                            </outputFile>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 432fae998..4cf9d8f48 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -93,9 +93,13 @@
 
         <module.skipCopyDependencies>false</module.skipCopyDependencies>
 
+        <!--  dev services configuration -->
         <keycloak.version>25.0.2</keycloak.version>
         <dev.images.postgres>postgres:16</dev.images.postgres>
         <dev.images.keycloak>quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:${keycloak.version}</dev.images.keycloak>
+        <dev.images.horreum>quay.io/hyperfoil/horreum:${project.version}</dev.images.horreum>
+        <!-- this is copied from the quarkus dev services impl -->
+        <dev.images.amq>quay.io/artemiscloud/activemq-artemis-broker:1.0.25</dev.images.amq>
 
         <horreum.version>${project.version}</horreum.version>
         <major-version>0.16</major-version>