diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     image: swh/objstorage
     ports:
     - 5003:5003
-
   swh-web:
     build: ./dockerfiles/swh-web
     image: swh/web
@@ -33,3 +32,20 @@
     depends_on:
       - swh-objstorage
       - swh-storage
+  swh-scheduler-db:
+    image: postgres:10
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: testpassword
+      POSTGRES_DB: swh-scheduler
+  swh-scheduler:
+    build: ./dockerfiles/swh-scheduler
+    image: swh/scheduler
+    ports:
+    - 5008:5008
+    depends_on:
+      - swh-scheduler-db
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: testpassword
+      POSTGRES_DB: swh-scheduler
+      PGHOST: swh-scheduler-db
+      PGUSER: postgres
diff --git a/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+FROM python:3
+
+RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
+  apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
+  apt-get install -y libsystemd-dev postgresql-client && \
+  apt-get clean && \
+  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN pip install swh-scheduler
+RUN pip install psycopg2-binary  # to make pip silent
+
+COPY scheduler.yml /
+COPY entrypoint.sh /
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
+
+EXPOSE 5008
diff --git a/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/entrypoint.sh b/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+if [[ -d /src ]] ; then
+    for srcrepo in /src/swh-* ; do
+        echo "installing $srcrepo"
+        pushd $srcrepo
+        pip install -e .
+        popd
+    done
+fi
+
+echo "${PGHOST}:5432:${POSTGRES_DB}:${PGUSER}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}" > ~/.pgpass
+cat > ~/.pg_service.conf <<EOF
+[swh-scheduler]
+dbname=${POSTGRES_DB}
+host=${PGHOST}
+port=5432
+user=${PGUSER}
+EOF
+
+chmod 0400 ~/.pgpass
+
+case "$1" in
+    "shell")
+        exec bash -i
+        ;;
+    *)
+        echo "setup the scheduler database"
+        PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} swh-db-init scheduler \
+	          --db-name ${POSTGRES_DB}
+        echo "starting the swh-scheduler server"
+        exec python3 -m swh.scheduler.api.server /scheduler.yml
+      ;;
+esac
diff --git a/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/scheduler.yml b/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/scheduler.yml
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/swh-scheduler/scheduler.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+scheduler:
+  cls: local
+  args:
+    scheduling_db: service=swh-scheduler