diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 # Styx
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Styx uses a couple of other services to run:
+
+* Kafka for messaging (not implemented yet in the docker, but currently not
+  necessary)
+* Dgraph for graph representation of results
+
+For that purposes, there is a `docker-compose.yml` file that you can spin up
+with the following command when in the directory:
+
+```sh
+docker-compose up -d
+```
+
+*Note*: for some reasons, OpenVPN blocks the establishment of the docker
+compose, you can alternatively run Dgraph manually as such:
+
+```sh
+docker run --rm -it -p 8080:8080 -p 9080:9080 -p 8000:8000 -v ~/dgraph:/dgraph dgraph/standalone:v20.03.0
+```
+
 ## Install
 
 ```sh
 go get -u gitlab.dcso.lolcat/LABS/styx
 cd $GOPATH/src/gitlab.dcso.lolcat/LABS/styx
 go build
+docker-compose up -d # or the other command if you're connected with OpenVPN
 ./styx
 ```
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
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+version: "3.2"
+services:
+  zero:
+    image: dgraph/dgraph:latest
+    volumes:
+      - /tmp/data:/dgraph
+    ports:
+      - 5080:5080
+      - 6080:6080
+    restart: on-failure
+    command: dgraph zero --my=zero:5080
+  alpha:
+    image: dgraph/dgraph:latest
+    volumes:
+      - /tmp/data:/dgraph
+    ports:
+      - 8080:8080
+      - 9080:9080
+    restart: on-failure
+    command: dgraph alpha --my=alpha:7080 --lru_mb=2048 --zero=zero:5080
+  ratel:
+    image: dgraph/dgraph:latest
+    ports:
+      - 8000:8000
+    command: dgraph-ratel