diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index 98a9d48c77..4c3fa2310c 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .dockerignore
 Dockerfile
+.git
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 06cd587661..295de7777a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,25 +1,28 @@
-FROM --platform=linux/amd64 python:3.11
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 python:3.11@sha256:5062f6c22a2c3b8b3717c642af3852310d9a81c3c2c0fc72449a9a79ef09ae63
+
+# Install uv
+COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/
+
+ENV UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE=1
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
 ###################
 ## Parsons setup ##
 ###################
 
-RUN mkdir /src
-COPY . /src/
 WORKDIR /src
+COPY pyproject.toml setup.py ./
+RUN uv sync --no-editable --all-extras --no-dev --python python3.11
 
-# Install uv
-COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /uvx /bin/
+COPY . /src/
 
-# Install parsons
-RUN uv sync --upgrade --all-extras --python python3.11
 ENV PATH="/src/.venv/bin:$PATH"
+ENV PYTHONPATH=.:/app
 
 # The /app directory can house the scripts that will actually execute on this Docker image.
-# Eg. If using this image in a Civis container script, Civis will install your script repo
-# (from Github) to /app.
+# Eg. If using this image in a Civis container script,
+# Civis will install your script repo (from Github) to /app.
 RUN mkdir /app
 WORKDIR /app
 
-# Useful for importing modules that are associated with your python scripts:
-ENV PYTHONPATH=.:/app
+CMD ["python3"]