diff --git a/.github/.ci-env-config b/.github/.ci-env-config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd2bccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/.ci-env-config
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+ENVIRONMENT_NAME=k8s
+DB_ENGINE=django.db.backends.mysql
+DB_NAME=test
+DB_USER=testuser
+DB_PASSWORD=testpassword
+DB_HOST=mysql
+DB_PORT=3306
+DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=secret
+DEBUG=false
+ROOT_URLCONF=urls.production
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4610576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+name: Build and Test
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - '**'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v4
+      - name: Check Out Repo 
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Login to Docker Hub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v1
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.K6_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.K6_DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}      
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        id: buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1
+
+      - name: Build and push
+        id: docker_build
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
+        with:
+          context: ./
+          file: ./k8s/Dockerfile
+          cache-from: type=gha,scope=dev
+          cache-to: type=gha,scope=dev,mode=max
+          push: true
+          tags: |
+            ${{ github.repository }}:${{ env.GITHUB_REF_NAME_SLUG }}-dev
+            ${{ github.repository }}:${{ github.sha }}-dev
+
+      - name: Image digest
+        run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build.outputs.digest }}
+
+  Run-Tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [build]
+    services:
+      test-api:
+        image: ${{ github.repository }}:${{ github.sha }}-dev
+        credentials:
+          username: ${{ secrets.K6_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.K6_DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+        env:
+          ENVIRONMENT_NAME: 'k8s'
+          DB_ENGINE: 'django.db.backends.mysql'
+          DB_NAME: 'test'
+          DB_USER: 'testuser'
+          DB_PASSWORD: 'testpassword'
+          DB_HOST: 'mysql'
+          DB_PORT: '3306'
+          DJANGO_SECRET_KEY: 'secret'
+          DEBUG: "false"
+          ROOT_URLCONF: "urls.production"
+        ports:
+          - 80:8000
+      mysql:
+        image: mysql:5.7
+        env:
+          MYSQL_DATABASE: test
+          MYSQL_USER: testuser
+          MYSQL_PASSWORD: testpassword
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: testrootpass
+        ports:
+          - 3306:3306
+        options: --health-cmd="mysqladmin ping" --health-interval=10s --health-timeout=5s --health-retries=3
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: Login to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v1
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.K6_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.K6_DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Apply database migrations
+        run: |
+          docker run --env-file ${{ github.workspace }}/.github/.ci-env-config --network ${{ job.container.network }} ${{ github.repository }}:${{ github.sha }}-dev sh -c "python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -v1 && python manage.py migrate && python manage.py loaddata fixtures/initial.json"
+      - name: Run k6 http test
+        run: |
+          docker run --env BASE_URL="http://localhost:80" --network host -v ${{ github.workspace }}:/data/ grafana/k6:latest run /data/k6_tests/api_demo.js
diff --git a/k8s/Dockerfile b/k8s/Dockerfile
index 4da32d6..f7aa25e 100644
--- a/k8s/Dockerfile
+++ b/k8s/Dockerfile
@@ -1,17 +1,28 @@
-FROM python:3.9-slim-bullseye
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade && \
-    export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
-    apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends \
-        gcc \
-        default-libmysqlclient-dev && \
-    apt-get clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-RUN useradd --uid 1000 --create-home appuser
+FROM python:3.9-alpine
+
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
+
+RUN adduser -u 82 -D -S -G www-data appuser
+
+RUN apk update && \
+    apk upgrade && \
+    apk add --no-cache \
+    nginx \
+    musl-dev \
+    cargo \
+    gcc \
+    openssl-dev \
+    libexpat \
+    libffi-dev \
+    build-base \
+    mysql-dev \
+    mariadb-connector-c-dev && \
+    rm -r /usr/local/lib/python*/ensurepip && \
+    pip3 install --upgrade pip==23.3 && \
+    rm -r /root/.cache
 
 COPY requirements.txt .
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 USER appuser
 
diff --git a/project/apps/api/apps.py b/project/apps/api/apps.py
index 12ee74c..374b0a1 100644
--- a/project/apps/api/apps.py
+++ b/project/apps/api/apps.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 
 class Api1Config(AppConfig):
-    name = 'api'
+    name = "apps.api"
diff --git a/project/settings/api/__init__.py b/project/settings/api/__init__.py
index facd0eb..958d2cc 100644
--- a/project/settings/api/__init__.py
+++ b/project/settings/api/__init__.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 from os import environ
 
 env = environ.get("ENVIRONMENT_NAME")
-if env == 'dev':
+if env == "dev":
     from .dev import *
-elif env == 'k8s':
+elif env == "k8s":
     # In k8s setup settings come from env vars, specified in the Deployment api object and
     # configured in k8s ConfigMap or ExternalSecret api objects.
-    # Quering secrets from AWS Secret Manager is the responsibility of the k8s cluster.   
+    # Quering secrets from AWS Secret Manager is the responsibility of the k8s cluster.
     from .k8s import *
 elif not env:
     from .default import *
 else:
-    raise Exception(f'ENVIRONMENT_NAME env incorrect: {env}')
+    raise Exception(f"ENVIRONMENT_NAME env incorrect: {env}")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6f594c8..587982c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Django==3.1.14
+Django==3.2.24
 
 channels==3.0.3
 djangorestframework==3.12.4