diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c1904c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+name: 'Release a new version of Redis-TPF to Github Packages'
+
+on:
+    release:
+        types: [published]
+
+env:
+    REGISTRY: ghcr.io
+
+jobs:
+    push_to_registry:
+        name: Push Docker image to GitHub Packages tagged with "latest" and version number.
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        permissions:
+          contents: read
+          packages: write
+        steps:
+            - name: Check out the repo
+              uses: actions/checkout@v2
+            - name: Get the version
+              id: get_version
+              run: echo ::set-output name=VERSION::${GITHUB_REF/refs\/tags\//}
+            - name: Extract metadata (tags, labels) for Docker
+              id: meta
+              uses: docker/metadata-action@98669ae865ea3cffbcbaa878cf57c20bbf1c6c38
+              with:
+                images:
+                    ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}
+            - name: Login to ghcr
+              uses: docker/login-action@v1
+              with:
+                  registry: ${{ env.REGISTRY }}
+                  username: ${{ github.actor }}
+                  password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+            - name: Push to GitHub Packages
+              uses: docker/build-push-action@ad44023a93711e3deb337508980b4b5e9bcdc5dc
+              with:
+                  context: .
+                  push: true
+                  tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
+                  labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
+                  build-args: BRANCH_NAME=${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tester.yml b/.github/workflows/tester.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4f6756
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/tester.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+name: 'test'
+
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: [3.11.0]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout the repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Create environment variables
+        run: |
+          echo "PYTHONPATH=$PWD" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Run redis
+        run: docker run --name redis-container -d -p 6379:6379 -t redis --password nop
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+
+      - name: Install pytest
+        run: pip install pytest
+
+      - name: Run the tests
+        run: |
+          python -m pytest tests/
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e6aab7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+from ghcr.io/translatorsri/renci-python-image:3.11.5
+
+
+RUN mkdir /home/nru
+
+RUN chown nru /home/nru
+
+# make a directory for the repo
+RUN mkdir /repo
+
+# go to the directory where we are going to upload the repo
+WORKDIR /repo
+
+RUN mkdir redis-tpf
+RUN chown nru redis-tpf
+USER nru
+
+COPY . redis-tpf
+
+
+WORKDIR redis-tpf
+ENV PYTHONPATH=/repo/redis-tpf
+
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
diff --git a/src/redis_connector.py b/src/redis_connector.py
index d1e9822..c303aac 100644
--- a/src/redis_connector.py
+++ b/src/redis_connector.py
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ class RedisConnection:
     # it is a context manager and can be used in a with statement
     def __init__(self,host,port,password):
         self.r = []
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=0))  # , password=password)
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=1))  # , password=password)
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=2))  # , password=password)
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=3))  # , password=password)
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=4))  # , password=password)
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=5))  # , password=password)
-        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=6))  # , password=password)
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=0, password=password))
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=1, password=password))
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=2, password=password))
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=3, password=password))
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=4, password=password))
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=5, password=password))
+        self.r.append(redis.StrictRedis(host=host, port=port, db=6, password=password))
         self.p = [ rc.pipeline() for rc in self.r ]
     def __enter__(self):
         return self
diff --git a/src/server.py b/src/server.py
index 2d9b9a7..cd28bd3 100644
--- a/src/server.py
+++ b/src/server.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from fastapi import FastAPI
+import os
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 from reasoner_pydantic import Response as PDResponse, Result as PDResult, Analysis as PDAnalysis, KnowledgeGraph as PDKG
 from src.redis_connector import RedisConnection
@@ -24,7 +25,14 @@
 )
 
 descender = Descender()
-rc = RedisConnection("localhost", 6379, "nop")
+REDIS_HOST = os.environ.get("REDIS_HOST", "localhost")
+REDIS_PORT = int(os.environ.get("REDIS_PORT", "6379"))
+REDIS_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("REDIS_PASSWORD")
+rc = RedisConnection(
+    REDIS_HOST,
+    REDIS_PORT,
+    REDIS_PASSWORD 
+    )
 
 
 @APP.post("/query", tags=["Query"], response_model=PDResponse, response_model_exclude_none=True, status_code=200)