diff --git a/Dockerfile.prod b/Dockerfile.prod
index 38ed760f..b7f5daa8 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.prod
+++ b/Dockerfile.prod
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git libpq-dev gcc
 COPY ./requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r /tmp/requirements.txt
 WORKDIR /app
-COPY ./felicity /app/felicity
+COPY . /app
 RUN  rm -rf /app/felicity/templates/static/*
 COPY --from=webapp-build /app/dist /app/felicity/templates/static
-# RUN cd /app/felicity && alembic upgrade head
+RUN cd /app && pip install -e .
 ENV PYTHONPATH=/app
 CMD ["gunicorn", "felicity.main:felicity", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000", "--workers", "4", "--worker-class", "uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker"]
 
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git libpq-dev gcc
 COPY ./requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r /tmp/requirements.txt
 WORKDIR /app
-COPY ./felicity /app/felicity
+COPY . /app/
 RUN  rm -rf /app/felicity/templates/static/*
-# RUN cd /app/felicity && alembic upgrade head
+RUN cd /app && pip install -e .
 ENV PYTHONPATH=/app
 CMD ["gunicorn", "felicity.main:felicity", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000", "--workers", "4", "--worker-class", "uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker"]
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a39d1fe3..b1c010c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Docker service presets are: *felicity-aio-caddy*, *felicity-aio-nginx*, *felicit
 
 ```commandline
 docker compose -f ./docker-compose.prod.yml up -d your_preset --build
-docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml exec your_preset bash -c "cd felicity && alembic upgrade head"
+docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml exec your_preset bash -c "felicity-lims upgrade"
 docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml logs your_preset -f -n100
 ```
 
@@ -83,13 +83,14 @@ Docker service presets are: *felicity-static-nginx*, *felicity-static-caddy*
 
 ```commandline
 docker compose -f ./docker-compose.prod.yml up -d your_preset --build
-docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml exec your_preset bash -c "cd felicity && alembic upgrade head"
+docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml exec your_preset bash -c "felicity-lims upgrade"
 docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml logs your_preset -f -n100
 ```
 
 ##### Alternative deployment method without docker
 
-If you don't want to use docker, as an alternative we recommend supervisor.
+If you don't want to use docker, as an alternative we recommend supervisor. With this approach you will have
+to setup databases (postgres, mongo), minio, redis/dragonfly manually by yourself
 
 ```shell
 # install os requirements
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ conda activate felicity
 pip install -r requirements.txt;
 
 # setup postgres - First create a database and user 
-pnpm db:al:upgrade;
+pnpm db:upgrade;
 
 # install webapp dependencies using pnpm - we recommend node v18 +
 pnpm i;
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 66d574f2..827f1725 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ typing-extensions==4.11.0
 async-cache==1.1.1
 minio==7.2.7
 motor==3.5.1
-meilisearch==0.31.4
 redis[hiredis]==5.0.8
 asyncio_redis==0.16.0
 typer==0.12.3