diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index dff38d74d..165431a9a 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,2 +1,29 @@
+&
+01-index
+.envrc
+.hie
+.hspec-failures
+/.stack-work/
+<
+Session.vim
+_database/
+_data/
+dist-newstyle
+environment.local.sh
+environment.prod.sh
+ghcid.text
+tags
+tags.mtime
 
-assets/node_modules
\ No newline at end of file
+/static/*
+assets/node_modules
+assets/yarn-error.log
+assets/fonts
+result*
+cbits/*.cpp
+pgdata/
+.vscode/
+.DS_Store
+tags.lock
+cabal.project.local
+logs/*
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9d06d7552..068afd4ad 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
-FROM gbogard/haskell-bullseye:9.2.4
+FROM ubuntu:22.04
 
 # generate a working directory
 WORKDIR /flora-server 
 
+RUN apt update
+RUN apt install -y build-essential curl libffi-dev libffi8 libgmp-dev libgmp10 libncurses-dev libncurses5 libtinfo5 git
+RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://get-ghcup.haskell.org | sh
+RUN echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/root/.ghcup/bin"' >> /etc/profile
+ENV PATH="$PATH:/root/.ghcup/bin"
+RUN ghcup install ghc 9.2.4 && ghcup set ghc 9.2.4 && ghcup install cabal
+
 # install dependencies (pg_config, postgresql-client, postrgresql-migrations & yarn)
 RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -
-RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_17.x | bash -
+RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash -
 RUN echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list 
-RUN apt update
-RUN apt install -y nodejs yarn libpq-dev mcpp wget zsh tmux postgresql-client
-RUN cabal install postgresql-migration
+RUN apt install -y nodejs libpq-dev mcpp wget zsh tmux postgresql-client
+RUN corepack enable
+RUN cabal update
+RUN cabal install -j8 postgresql-migration
 
 # install soufflé
 RUN wget --content-disposition https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/releases/download/2.2/x86_64-ubuntu-2004-souffle-2.2-Linux.deb
@@ -23,8 +31,7 @@ COPY scripts/.zshrc /root/.zshrc
 
 # build Haskell dependencies
 COPY Makefile cabal.project flora.cabal ./
-RUN cabal update
-RUN cabal build --only-dependencies -j8
+RUN cabal build --only-dependencies -j
 
 # Compile Souffle source files
 COPY cbits ./cbits