diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1822aef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Dockerfile
+.github
diff --git a/.github/workflows/actions.yml b/.github/workflows/actions.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48cef40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/actions.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches: main
+    tags: ['v*']
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+
+jobs:
+  tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Set up MicroMamba
+      uses: mamba-org/setup-micromamba@v1
+      with:
+        environment-file: environment.yml
+        condarc: |
+          channels:
+            - conda-forge
+            - default
+        cache-environment: true
+
+    - name: Unit test with code coverage
+      shell: bash -l {0}
+      run: python -m pytest -vv --cov=postprocessing --cov-report=xml --cov-report=term
+
+    - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
+      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+      env:
+        CODECOV_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
+
+  rpm:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout Repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Build RPM inside Docker
+      run: |
+        docker build --tag postprocess --target=package -f Dockerfile .
+        fname=`docker run -v $(pwd):/store postprocess ls /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch`
+        docker run -v `pwd`:/store postprocess mv /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/$fname /store
+        one=${fname#*postprocessing-}
+        two=${one%.noarch*}
+        echo "::set-output name=version::$two"
+        echo "::set-output name=fname::$fname"
+      continue-on-error: false
+
+# TODO: uncomment this once we have switched to python3 and can conda install the module build
+#  wheel:
+#    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+#    steps:
+#    - name: Checkout Repository
+#      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+#
+#    - name: Set up MicroMamba
+#      uses: mamba-org/setup-micromamba@v1
+#      with:
+#        environment-file: environment.yml
+#        condarc: |
+#          channels:
+#            - conda-forge
+#            - default
+#        cache-environment: true
+#
+#    - name: Build wheel
+#      shell: bash -l {0}
+#      run: python -m build --wheel
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index feb58b5..3c6f51f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,28 +1,34 @@
-FROM centos:7
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 centos:7 as package
+
+RUN yum install -y make rpm-build
+# lots of packages don't exist in rhel7
+# the Makefile will print lots of warnings as a result
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+COPY scripts /app/scripts
+COPY configuration /app/configuration
+COPY postprocessing /app/postprocessing
+COPY SPECS /app/SPECS
+COPY Makefile /app/
+
+
+RUN mkdir -p /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES
+
+RUN make rpm || exit 1
+
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 centos:7 as app
+COPY --from=package /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/postprocessing-*-1.noarch.rpm /
+
 
 RUN curl http://packages.sns.gov/distros/rhel/7/sns/sns.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/sns.repo
 RUN yum install -y epel-release
 RUN yum updateinfo
-RUN yum install -y \
-    python-requests \
-    python-twisted-core \
-    python-twisted-web \
-    python-twisted-words \
-    python-stompest \
-    python2-stompest-async \
-    python-pip \
-    nexus \
-    nexus-python \
-    make \
-    numpy
-
-COPY . .
-
-RUN make install
 
-RUN cp configuration/post_process_consumer.conf.development /etc/autoreduce/post_processing.conf
+RUN yum install -y /postprocessing-*-1.noarch.rpm || exit 1
 
 # This configuration allows it to run with docker-compose from https://github.com/neutrons/data_workflow
+COPY configuration/post_process_consumer.conf.development /etc/autoreduce/post_processing.conf
 RUN sed -i 's/localhost/activemq/' /etc/autoreduce/post_processing.conf
 
 RUN echo "#!/bin/bash" > /usr/bin/run_postprocessing && \
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a768b24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+name: post_processing_agent_py2
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+  - defaults
+dependencies:
+  - python=2.7
+  - pip
+  - pytest
+  - pytest-cov
+  - pip:
+    - stompest==2.1.6
+# needed for wheel - add when switching to python3
+#  - build