diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8b2bb26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+.PHONY: dev
+dev:
+	docker compose --profile central -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
+
+.PHONY: upgrade-successful
+upgrade-successful:
+	docker compose exec postgres14 touch /var/lib/odk/postgresql/14/.postgres14-upgrade-successful
+
+.PHONY: stop
+stop:
+	docker compose stop
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2cfe34dd..cb94de91 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ In addition to the Backend and the Frontend, Central deploys services:
 * Central relies on [pyxform-http](https://github.com/getodk/pyxform-http) for converting Forms from XLSForm. It generally shouldn't be needed in development but can be run locally.
 * Central relies on [Enketo](https://github.com/enketo/enketo-express) for Web Form functionality. Enketo can be run locally and configured to work with Frontend and Backend in development by following [these instructions](https://github.com/getodk/central-frontend/blob/master/docs/enketo.md).
 
+If you want to work on Central codebase and don't want to setup dependent services like Postgresql, Enketo, etc manually then you can run `make dev`, which will start those services as Docker containers. If you are setting up development environment for the first time, please run `make upgrade-successful` to skip the Postgresql upgrade.
+
 Operations
 ----------
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.dev.yml b/docker-compose.dev.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0f8c88e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.dev.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Assumption: This file will be merged by `docker compose`
+#
+# What it does:
+# Sets profiles for each service depending on whether that 
+# service is required for development of that particular application
+# For Central be/fe development, we need postgres14, pyxform, enketo, redis_main
+# For Enketo development, we need postgres14, service, nginx, redis_main
+# 'none' profile is set for services that are not need for either
+#  
+# depends_on of some services are reset using !reset custom yml tag
+# nb: can't replace depends_on so we have removed all the values, ok for dev
+services:
+  postgres14:
+    profiles:
+      - central
+    network_mode: host
+  postgres:
+    profiles:
+      - none
+  mail:
+    profiles:
+      - none
+  service:
+    profiles:
+      - none
+  nginx:
+    profiles:
+      - none
+  pyxform:
+    profiles:
+      - central
+    # changing port here - can't use `ports` mapping with host networking
+    command: ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:5001", "--workers", "5", "--timeout", "600", "--max-requests", "1", "--max-requests-jitter", "3", "main:app()"]
+    network_mode: host
+  secrets:
+    profiles:
+      - none
+  enketo:
+    profiles:
+      - central    
+    depends_on: !reset []
+    environment:
+      - ENV=DEV
+    network_mode: host
+  enketo_redis_main:
+    profiles:
+      - central
+    network_mode: host
+  enketo_redis_cache:
+    profiles:
+      - none
diff --git a/files/enketo/start-enketo.sh b/files/enketo/start-enketo.sh
index b9a43ac0..08829969 100755
--- a/files/enketo/start-enketo.sh
+++ b/files/enketo/start-enketo.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 CONFIG_PATH=${ENKETO_SRC_DIR}/config/config.json
 echo "generating enketo configuration..."
 
+if [ "$ENV" = "DEV" ]; then
+    sed -i -e 's/enketo_redis_main/localhost/g' \
+       -e 's/enketo_redis_cache/localhost/g' \
+       -e 's/6380/6379/g' \
+       -e 's/${SECRET}/s0m3v3rys3cr3tk3y/g' \
+       -e 's/${LESS_SECRET}/this $3cr3t key is crackable/g' \
+       -e 's/${API_KEY}/enketorules/g' "$CONFIG_PATH.template"
+fi
+
 BASE_URL=$( [ "${HTTPS_PORT}" = 443 ] && echo https://"${DOMAIN}" || echo https://"${DOMAIN}":"${HTTPS_PORT}" ) \
 SECRET=$(cat /etc/secrets/enketo-secret) \
 LESS_SECRET=$(cat /etc/secrets/enketo-less-secret) \
diff --git a/files/postgres14/start-postgres.sh b/files/postgres14/start-postgres.sh
index 972c6147..978f6c4c 100755
--- a/files/postgres14/start-postgres.sh
+++ b/files/postgres14/start-postgres.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash -eu
 set -o pipefail
 
-flag_upgradeCompletedOk="$PGDATA/../.postgres14-upgrade-successful"
+flag_upgradeCompletedOk=$(readlink -f -m "$PGDATA/../.postgres14-upgrade-successful")
 
 logPrefix="$(basename "$0")"
 log() {