diff --git a/.env b/.env
index f5c0aba..930894e 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.yml;docker/dev.yml
+COMPOSE_FILE_RUN=docker-compose.yml,docker-compose-run.yml
+COMPOSE_FILE=${COMPOSE_FILE_RUN},docker/dev.yml
 COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=off-query
-COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR=;
+COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR=,
 RESTART_POLICY=no
 TAG=latest
 QUERY_PORT=127.0.0.1:5511
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@ POSTGRES_USER=productopener
 POSTGRES_PASSWORD=productopener
 POSTGRES_SHM_SIZE=256m
 COMMON_NET_NAME=off_shared_network
+# Note when running in a container the following settings are changed to use the internal docker network
 MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017
 REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
 # Log levels are: debug, verbose, log (default), warn, error
diff --git a/.github/workflows/container-deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/container-deploy.yml
index e0b6bb5..27132cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/container-deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/container-deploy.yml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ jobs:
             echo "DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=120" >> .env
             echo "COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=120" >> .env
             echo "COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=off-query" >> .env
-            echo "COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR=;" >> .env
+            echo "COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR=," >> .env
             echo "RESTART_POLICY=always" >> .env
             echo "COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.yml" >> .env
             echo "TAG=sha-${{ github.sha }}" >> .env
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c08a4d3..1a50e83 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ endif
 up: run_deps
 	docker compose up --build --wait
 
+# Called by other projects to start this project as a dependency
+run: run_deps
+	COMPOSE_FILE=${COMPOSE_FILE_RUN} docker compose up -d
+
 # This task starts a Postgres database in Docker and then prepares the local environment for development
 dev: run_deps
 	docker compose up --wait query_postgres
diff --git a/docker-compose-run.yml b/docker-compose-run.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c1ef64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose-run.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+services:
+  query:
+    environment:
+      # Use shared-services MongoDB and REDIS
+      - MONGO_URI=mongodb://mongodb:27017
+      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379