diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 4891d9381227f94f57b5db82effcf4bf057bf8eb..1928aeede15c4a1b86f4380644d645f45a91b71f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -7,4 +7,15 @@ RUN pip install \
     --extra-index-url https://artifactory.software.geant.org/artifactory/api/pypi/geant-swd-pypi/simple \
     geant-service-orchestrator==${ARTIFACT_VERSION}
 
-CMD ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]
+# Create the directory for the configuration and copy the example config into it
+RUN mkdir -p /etc/gso
+COPY gso/oss-params-example.json /etc/gso/config.json
+
+# Expose port 8000 for the FastAPI application
+EXPOSE 8080
+
+# Set the environment variable for the configuration file
+ENV OSS_PARAMS_FILENAME=/etc/gso/config.json
+
+# Start the FastAPI application
+CMD ["uvicorn", "gso.main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8080"]