diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 795e29dd5c..d487346c8d 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -1,33 +1,24 @@
 // For format details, see https://aka.ms/devcontainer.json. For config options, see the
-// README at: https://github.com/devcontainers/templates/tree/main/src/docker-existing-docker-compose
+// README at: https://github.com/devcontainers/templates/tree/main/src/python
 {
-	"name": "Care",
-	"dockerComposeFile": [
-    "../docker-compose.yaml",
-		"../docker-compose.local.yaml"
-	],
+  "name": "Care",
   "hostRequirements": {
     "cpus": 4
   },
-  "waitFor": "onCreateCommand",
-	"service": "backend",
-	"workspaceFolder": "/workspaces/${localWorkspaceFolderBasename}",
-  "postCreateCommand": "python manage.py migrate && python manage.py collectstatic --noinput && python manage.py load_dummy_data",
-  "postAttachCommand": {
-    "server": "python manage.py runserver"
-  },
-	"customizations": {
-    "vscode": {
-      "extensions": [
-        "ms-python.python"
-      ]
-    }
-  },
-  "portsAttributes": {
-    "8000": {
-      "label": "Application",
-      "onAutoForward": "openPreview"
+  "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python:1-3.11-bookworm",
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/docker-in-docker:2": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/node:1": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/git:1": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/github-cli:1": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/pipenv:2": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/direnv:1": {},
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/apt-get-packages:1": {
+      "packages": "build-essential,libjpeg-dev,zlib1g-dev,libpq-dev,gettext,wget,curl,gnupg",
+      "preserve_apt_list": false
     }
   },
-  "forwardPorts": [9000]
+  "postCreateCommand": "echo 'eval \"$(direnv hook bash)\"' >> ~/.bashrc && cp .env.example .env",
+  "postAttachCommand": "make up",
+  "forwardPorts": [8000, 9000, 4000]
 }
diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..091bea02fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+POSTGRES_USER=postgres
+POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
+POSTGRES_HOST=db
+POSTGRES_DB=care
+POSTGRES_PORT=5432
+DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5433/care
+REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6380
+CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://localhost:6380/0
+
+FIDELIUS_URL=http://localhost:8092
+
+DJANGO_DEBUG=False
+
+BUCKET_REGION=ap-south-1
+BUCKET_KEY=key
+BUCKET_SECRET=secret
+BUCKET_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4566
+BUCKET_EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4566
+FILE_UPLOAD_BUCKET=patient-bucket
+FACILITY_S3_BUCKET=facility-bucket
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 41484c2e8d..e9a27996a6 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -23,3 +23,8 @@ updates:
     directory: "/"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
+
+  - package-ecosystem: "devcontainers"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-base.yml b/.github/workflows/test-base.yml
index e295ac88c9..b58e829aa0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-base.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-base.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,15 @@ jobs:
           files: docker-compose.yaml,docker-compose.local.yaml
 
       - name: Start services
-        run: docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.local.yaml up -d --wait --no-build
+        run: |
+          docker compose \
+            -f docker-compose.yaml \
+            -f docker-compose.local.yaml \
+            up -d --wait ||\
+          docker compose \
+            -f docker-compose.yaml \
+            -f docker-compose.local.yaml \
+            logs
 
       - name: Check migrations
         run: make checkmigration
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ce601d095b..c4ac20362f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 [![Cookiecutter Django](https://img.shields.io/badge/built%20with-Cookiecutter%20Django-ff69b4.svg)](https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django/)
 [![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
 [![Chat](https://img.shields.io/badge/-Join%20us%20on%20slack-7b1c7d?logo=slack)](https://slack.coronasafe.in/)
+[![Open in Dev Containers](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=&message=Open%20in%20Dev%20Containers&color=blue&logo=visualstudiocode)](https://vscode.dev/redirect?url=vscode://ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/cloneInVolume?url=https://github.com/coronasafe/care)
 
 This is the backend for care. an open source platform for managing patients, health workers, and hospitals.
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 7959c927d3..11cfcc0a9c 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ services:
       - ./docker/.prebuilt.env
     volumes:
       - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+    ports:
+      - "5433:5432"
 
   redis:
     image: redis/redis-stack-server:6.2.6-v10
     restart: unless-stopped
     volumes:
       - redis-data:/data
+    ports:
+      - "6380:6379"
 
   localstack:
     image: localstack/localstack:latest
@@ -37,6 +41,8 @@ services:
   fidelius:
     image: khavinshankar/fidelius:latest
     restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - "8092:8090"
 
 volumes:
   postgres-data: