diff --git a/backend/app/core/config.py b/backend/app/core/config.py
index 91f0b5f..60ceb37 100644
--- a/backend/app/core/config.py
+++ b/backend/app/core/config.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Annotated, Any, Final, Literal, Self
 
+from dotenv import find_dotenv, load_dotenv
 from pydantic import (
     AnyUrl,
     BeforeValidator,
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@
 )
 from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
 
+load_dotenv(find_dotenv(".env"))
+
 
 def _parse_cors(v: Any) -> list[str] | str:
     if isinstance(v, str) and not v.startswith("["):
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ def _parse_cors(v: Any) -> list[str] | str:
 
 
 class Settings(BaseSettings):
-    model_config = SettingsConfigDict(env_file=".env", env_file_encoding="utf-8")
+    model_config = SettingsConfigDict(env_file_encoding="utf-8", extra="ignore")
 
     API_V1_PREFIX: str = "/api/v1"
     TITLE: Final = "SCAN"
diff --git a/docker-compose.override.yml b/docker-compose.override.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0c267a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.override.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+services:
+  proxy:
+    image: traefik:3
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+    ports:
+      - "80:80"
+      - "8090:8080"
+    # Duplicate the command from docker-compose.yml to add --api.insecure=true
+    command:
+      # Enable Docker in Traefik, so that it reads labels from Docker services
+      - --providers.docker
+      # Add a constraint to only use services with the label for this stack
+      - --providers.docker.constraints=Label(`traefik.constraint-label`, `traefik-public`)
+      # Do not expose all Docker services, only the ones explicitly exposed
+      - --providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false
+      # Create an entrypoint "http" listening on port 80
+      - --entrypoints.http.address=:80
+      # Enable the access log, with HTTP requests
+      - --accesslog
+      # Enable the Traefik log, for configurations and errors
+      - --log
+      # Enable debug logging for local development
+      - --log.level=DEBUG
+      # Enable the Dashboard and API
+      - --api
+      # Enable the Dashboard and API in insecure mode for local development
+      - --api.insecure=true
+    labels:
+      # Enable Traefik for this service, to make it available in the public network
+      - traefik.enable=true
+      - traefik.constraint-label=traefik-public
+    networks:
+      - traefik-public
+      - default
+
+  backend:
+    image: backend:dev
+    restart: no
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+    networks:
+      - traefik-public
+      - default
+    build:
+      context: ./backend
+    container_name: backend
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+      - valkey
+    env_file:
+      - .env
+    environment:
+      - POSTGRES_HOST=db
+
+    labels:
+      - traefik.enable=true
+      - traefik.docker.network=traefik-public
+
+      # HTTP entry point and rule
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-http.rule=Host(`api.${DOMAIN?Variable not set}`)
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-http.entrypoints=http
+
+      # Remove reference to HTTPS and its middlewares
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-http.middlewares=
+
+      # Clear HTTPS-specific labels
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.rule=
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.entrypoints=
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.tls.certresolver=
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.middlewares=
+
+  db:
+    restart: "no"
+    ports:
+      - "5432:5432"
+
+  valkey:
+    restart: "no"
+    ports:
+      - 6379:6379
+
+networks:
+  traefik-public:
+    # For local dev, don't expect an external Traefik network
+    external: false
diff --git a/docker-compose.traefik.yml b/docker-compose.traefik.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55a3dad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.traefik.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+services:
+  traefik:
+    image: traefik:3
+    ports:
+      # Listen on port 80, default for HTTP, necessary to redirect to HTTPS
+      - 80:80
+      # Listen on port 443, default for HTTPS
+      - 443:443
+    restart: always
+    labels:
+      # Enable Traefik for this service, to make it available in the public network
+      - traefik.enable=true
+      # Use the traefik-public network (declared below)
+      - traefik.docker.network=traefik-public
+      # Define the port inside of the Docker service to use
+      - traefik.http.services.traefik-dashboard.loadbalancer.server.port=8080
+      # Make Traefik use this domain (from an environment variable) in HTTP
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-http.entrypoints=http
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-http.rule=Host(`traefik.${DOMAIN?Variable not set}`)
+      # traefik-https the actual router using HTTPS
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-https.entrypoints=https
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-https.rule=Host(`traefik.${DOMAIN?Variable not set}`)
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-https.tls=true
+      # Use the "le" (Let's Encrypt) resolver created below
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-https.tls.certresolver=le
+      # Use the special Traefik service api@internal with the web UI/Dashboard
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-https.service=api@internal
+      # https-redirect middleware to redirect HTTP to HTTPS
+      - traefik.http.middlewares.https-redirect.redirectscheme.scheme=https
+      - traefik.http.middlewares.https-redirect.redirectscheme.permanent=true
+      # traefik-http set up only to use the middleware to redirect to https
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-http.middlewares=https-redirect
+      # admin-auth middleware with HTTP Basic auth
+      # Using the environment variables USERNAME and HASHED_PASSWORD
+      - traefik.http.middlewares.admin-auth.basicauth.users=${USERNAME?Variable not set}:${HASHED_PASSWORD?Variable not set}
+      # Enable HTTP Basic auth, using the middleware created above
+      - traefik.http.routers.traefik-dashboard-https.middlewares=admin-auth
+    volumes:
+      # Add Docker as a mounted volume, so that Traefik can read the labels of other services
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
+      # Mount the volume to store the certificates
+      - traefik-public-certificates:/certificates
+    command:
+      # Enable Docker in Traefik, so that it reads labels from Docker services
+      - --providers.docker
+      # Do not expose all Docker services, only the ones explicitly exposed
+      - --providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false
+      # Create an entrypoint "http" listening on port 80
+      - --entrypoints.http.address=:80
+      # Create an entrypoint "https" listening on port 443
+      - --entrypoints.https.address=:443
+      # Create the certificate resolver "le" for Let's Encrypt, uses the environment variable EMAIL
+      - --certificatesresolvers.le.acme.email=${EMAIL?Variable not set}
+      # Store the Let's Encrypt certificates in the mounted volume
+      - --certificatesresolvers.le.acme.storage=/certificates/acme.json
+      # Use the TLS Challenge for Let's Encrypt
+      - --certificatesresolvers.le.acme.tlschallenge=true
+      # Enable the access log, with HTTP requests
+      - --accesslog
+      # Enable the Traefik log, for configurations and errors
+      - --log
+      # Enable the Dashboard and API
+      - --api
+    networks:
+      # Use the public network created to be shared between Traefik and
+      # any other service that needs to be publicly available with HTTPS
+      - traefik-public
+
+volumes:
+  # Create a volume to store the certificates, even if the container is recreated
+  traefik-public-certificates:
+
+networks:
+  # Use the previously created public network "traefik-public", shared with other
+  # services that need to be publicly available via this Traefik
+  traefik-public:
+    external: true
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index e4d0aa3..8a47675 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,33 +1,62 @@
 services:
   backend:
     image: backend:dev
+    restart: always
+    networks:
+      - traefik-public
+      - default
     build:
       context: ./backend
     container_name: backend
     depends_on:
       - db
       - valkey
-    ports:
-      - "8000:8000"
     env_file:
-      - backend/.env
+      - .env
     environment:
       - POSTGRES_HOST=db
+      - VALKEY_HOST=valkey
+    labels:
+      - traefik.enable=true
+      - traefik.docker.network=traefik-public
+      - traefik.constraint-label=traefik-public
+
+      - traefik.http.services.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend.loadbalancer.server.port=8000
+
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-http.rule=Host(`api.${DOMAIN?Variable not set}`)
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-http.entrypoints=http
+
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.rule=Host(`api.${DOMAIN?Variable not set}`)
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.entrypoints=https
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.tls=true
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-https.tls.certresolver=le
+
+      # Enable redirection for HTTP and HTTPS
+      - traefik.http.routers.${STACK_NAME?Variable not set}-backend-http.middlewares=https-redirect
+
   db:
     image: postgres:17-alpine
+    restart: always
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U $POSTGRES_USER -d $POSTGRES_DB"]
+      interval: 10s
+      retries: 5
+      start_period: 30s
+      timeout: 10s
     expose:
       - 5432
     ports:
       - 5432:5432
     environment:
-      POSTGRES_USER: "postgres"
-      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "test_password"
-      POSTGRES_DB: "scan"
+      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: test_password
+      POSTGRES_DB: scan
     volumes:
       - db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
 
   valkey:
     image: valkey/valkey:8-alpine
+    restart: always
     expose:
       - 6379
     ports:
@@ -38,4 +67,7 @@ volumes:
   db-data:
 
 networks:
-  scan-network:
+  traefik-public:
+    name: traefik-public
+    # Allow setting it to false for testing
+    external: true
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 7bdf56c..47b66d4 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
   uv sync --frozen --all-extras
 
 @backend-server:
+  docker compose down backend && \
   cd backend && \
   uv run uvicorn app.main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --reload