diff --git a/service/v1/skill/docker-compose.dev.yml b/service/v1/skill/docker-compose.dev.yml
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+version: '3.7'
+services:
+  skill-service:
+    environment:
+      GUNICORN_KEYFILE: localhost.key
+      GUNICORN_CRTFILE: localhost.crt
+      GUNICORN_CACERT: rootCA.pem
+      SKILL_DB_HOST: skill-db
+      SKILL_DB_PORT: 27017
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diff --git a/service/v1/skill/docker-compose.yml b/service/v1/skill/docker-compose.yml
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+# Base configuration to build and run the skill service
+#
+# By design, there are no default values in this file.  Everything specified
+# below applies to all environments.  This prevents bad default values from
+# being used accidentally.  An override file is defined for each environment
+# with configurations that are not common to all environments.
+version: '3.7'
+services:
+  skill-service:
+    build:
+      context: .
+    container_name: skill-service
+    depends_on:
+      - skill-db
+    image: skill-service
+    ports:
+      - '5000:5000'
+    volumes:
+      - type: volume
+        source: certificate_volume
+        target: /etc/ssl/certs
+
+  skill-db:
+    container_name: skill-db
+    image: mongo
+    volumes:
+      - type: bind
+        source: /Users/chrisveilleux/mongodb
+        target: /data/db
+
+volumes:
+  certificate_volume:
+    external:
+      name: ssl_test_volume
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