diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@
     image: swh/objstorage
     ports:
       - 5003:5003
+    environment:
+      SWH_CONFIG_FILENAME: /objstorage.yml
     volumes:
       - "./conf/objstorage.yml:/objstorage.yml:ro"
 
diff --git a/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/Dockerfile
--- a/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/Dockerfile
+++ b/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/Dockerfile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     libsystemd-dev
 
 RUN pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
-RUN pip install swh-objstorage
+RUN pip install swh-objstorage gunicorn
 
 COPY entrypoint.sh /
 
diff --git a/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/entrypoint.sh b/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/entrypoint.sh
--- a/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/dockerfiles/swh-objstorage/entrypoint.sh
@@ -20,5 +20,10 @@
 	exec bash -i
 else
 	echo Starting the swh-objstorage API server
-	exec python -m swh.objstorage.api.server /objstorage.yml
+        exec gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:5003 \
+           --worker-class aiohttp.worker.GunicornWebWorker \
+           --log-level DEBUG \
+           --reload \
+           swh.objstorage.api.wsgi
+
 fi