diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index ae9d20c7a5ea2347224651a201d8c9cfe117b77e..0d66256e06aa0cdb07a2dc18dcb310783f54b9af 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ RUN groupadd -r ics && useradd -r -g ics ics
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
+# uwsgi is currently not available on conda-forge
+# for Python 3.6 - it needs to be installed with pip
+# and that requires gcc
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    gcc \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
 # Install inventory requirements
 COPY environment.yml /app/environment.yml
 RUN conda config --add channels conda-forge \
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 108dce44bb330172519eabb9bdc9c6a42b1b6b1c..8c802bcfb04d6a9b7cb2308d08937de4d731685c 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -64,4 +64,5 @@ dependencies:
   - sqlalchemy-citext==1.3.post0
   - sqlalchemy-continuum==1.3.1
   - sqlalchemy-utils==0.32.14
+  - uwsgi==2.0.15
   - visitor==0.1.3