diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/todo.org
+/myindex
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
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+# Requirements
+
+Install [docker](https://www.docker.com/) and [docker compose](https://github.com/docker/compose).
+
+# Starting
+
+To download, intialize and run KorAP pointing to a certain directory index
+(in this example `myindex` in the local directory), run
+
+```shell
+$ INDEX=./myindex docker-compose up
+```
+
+This will make the frontend be available at
+`localhost:64543`.
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
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+version: '3.8'
+services:
+  kalamar:
+    image: "korap/kalamar"
+    ports:
+      - "64543:64543"
+    environment:
+      KALAMAR_API: "http://kustvakt:8089/api/"
+  kustvakt:
+    image: "korap/kustvakt"
+    expose:
+      - "8089"
+    volumes:
+      - "${INDEX}:/kustvakt/index"