diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index c79a328..4b59471 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,52 +1,56 @@
 FROM python:3.7
 
 RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
   apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
   apt-get install -y \
     libapr1-dev \
     libaprutil1-dev \
     libpq-dev \
     libsvn-dev \
     libsystemd-dev \
     postgresql-client \
     wait-for-it \
     ngrep && \
   apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     r-base-core \
     r-cran-jsonlite && \
   apt-get clean && \
   rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN useradd -md /srv/softwareheritage -s /bin/bash swh
 USER swh
 
 RUN python3 -m venv /srv/softwareheritage/venv
 ENV PATH="/srv/softwareheritage/venv/bin:${PATH}"
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
 RUN pip install gunicorn
 
 ARG CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON
 ENV CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON ${CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON}
 ARG CASS_DRIVER_BUILD_CONCURRENCY
 ENV CASS_DRIVER_BUILD_CONCURRENCY ${CASS_DRIVER_BUILD_CONCURRENCY:-1}
 RUN pip install cassandra-driver
 
+# Enforce installation of django 1 otherwise pip will choose django 2 when
+# installing the swh stack due to poor version dependency support in pip
+RUN pip install 'Django<2'
+
 RUN pip install \
         swh-core[db,http] \
         swh-deposit[server] \
         swh-indexer \
         swh-journal \
         swh-lister \
         swh-loader-core \
         swh-loader-git \
         swh-loader-mercurial \
         swh-loader-svn \
         swh-storage \
         swh-objstorage \
         swh-scheduler \
         swh-vault \
         swh-web
 
 COPY utils/*.sh /srv/softwareheritage/utils/
 RUN mkdir -p /srv/softwareheritage/objects
 RUN rm -rd /srv/softwareheritage/.cache