diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 9b8588e94..4c1eda4cd 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ steps:
   - name: nightly build
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
-      dockerfile: docker/prod/Dockerfile
+      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
+      build_args: RUST_RELEASE_MODE=release
       username:
         from_secret: docker_username
       password:
@@ -136,7 +137,8 @@ steps:
   - name: publish release docker image
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
-      dockerfile: docker/prod/Dockerfile
+      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
+      build_args: RUST_RELEASE_MODE=release
       username:
         from_secret: docker_username
       password:
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ steps:
   - name: publish release docker image
     image: plugins/docker
     settings:
-      dockerfile: docker/prod/Dockerfile.arm
+      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile.arm
       username:
         from_secret: docker_username
       password:
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..068f55c22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+FROM clux/muslrust:1.67.0 as builder
+WORKDIR /app
+ARG CARGO_BUILD_TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+
+# This can be set to release using --build-arg
+ARG RUST_RELEASE_MODE="debug"
+
+COPY . .
+
+# Build the project
+RUN echo "pub const VERSION: &str = \"$(git describe --tag)\";" > "crates/utils/src/version.rs"
+    
+# Debug mode build
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/app/target \
+    if [ "$RUST_RELEASE_MODE" = "debug" ] ; then \
+      cargo build --target ${CARGO_BUILD_TARGET} \
+      && cp ./target/$CARGO_BUILD_TARGET/$RUST_RELEASE_MODE/lemmy_server /app/lemmy_server; \
+    fi
+
+# Release mode build
+RUN \
+    if [ "$RUST_RELEASE_MODE" = "release" ] ; then \
+      cargo build --target ${CARGO_BUILD_TARGET} --release \
+      && cp ./target/$CARGO_BUILD_TARGET/$RUST_RELEASE_MODE/lemmy_server /app/lemmy_server; \
+    fi
+
+# The alpine runner
+FROM alpine:3 as lemmy
+
+# Install libpq for postgres
+RUN apk add libpq
+
+# Copy resources
+COPY --from=builder /app/lemmy_server /app/lemmy
+
+EXPOSE 8536
+CMD ["/app/lemmy"]
diff --git a/docker/prod/Dockerfile.arm b/docker/Dockerfile.arm
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/prod/Dockerfile.arm
rename to docker/Dockerfile.arm
diff --git a/docker/dev/Dockerfile b/docker/dev/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index d52a52d3a..000000000
--- a/docker/dev/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-ARG RUST_BUILDER_IMAGE=clux/muslrust:1.67.0
-
-FROM $RUST_BUILDER_IMAGE as chef
-USER root
-RUN cargo install cargo-chef
-WORKDIR /app
-
-# Cargo chef plan
-FROM chef as planner
-ENV RUSTFLAGS="--cfg tokio_unstable"
-
-# Copy dirs
-COPY . .
-
-RUN cargo chef prepare --recipe-path recipe.json
-
-FROM chef as builder
-ARG CARGO_BUILD_TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
-ARG RUSTRELEASEDIR="debug"
-ENV RUSTFLAGS="--cfg tokio_unstable"
-
-COPY --from=planner /app/recipe.json ./recipe.json
-RUN cargo chef cook --recipe-path recipe.json --target ${CARGO_BUILD_TARGET}
-
-# Copy the rest of the dirs
-COPY . .
-
-# Build the project
-RUN echo "pub const VERSION: &str = \"$(git describe --tag)\";" > "crates/utils/src/version.rs"
-RUN cargo build --target ${CARGO_BUILD_TARGET}
-
-RUN cp ./target/$CARGO_BUILD_TARGET/$RUSTRELEASEDIR/lemmy_server /app/lemmy_server
-
-# The alpine runner
-FROM alpine:3 as lemmy
-
-# Install libpq for postgres
-RUN apk add libpq
-
-# Copy resources
-COPY --from=builder /app/lemmy_server /app/lemmy
-
-EXPOSE 8536
-CMD ["/app/lemmy"]
diff --git a/docker/dev/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
similarity index 97%
rename from docker/dev/docker-compose.yml
rename to docker/docker-compose.yml
index ba2785fa9..f923c97d4 100644
--- a/docker/dev/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ services:
     # use this to build your local lemmy server image for development
     # run docker compose up --build
     build: 
-      context: ../..
-      dockerfile: docker/dev/Dockerfile
+      context: ../
+      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
+      # args: 
+      #   RUST_RELEASE_MODE: release
     # this hostname is used in nginx reverse proxy and also for lemmy ui to connect to the backend, do not change
     hostname: lemmy
     networks:
diff --git a/docker/docker_db_backup.sh b/docker/docker_db_backup.sh
index e9473a290..0bfa68029 100755
--- a/docker/docker_db_backup.sh
+++ b/docker/docker_db_backup.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-pushd dev
 docker-compose exec postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy > dump_`date +%Y-%m-%d"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql
-popd
diff --git a/docker/dev/docker_update.sh b/docker/docker_update.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/dev/docker_update.sh
rename to docker/docker_update.sh
diff --git a/docker/federation/start-local-instances.bash b/docker/federation/start-local-instances.bash
index 7527108d6..b2350d3a8 100755
--- a/docker/federation/start-local-instances.bash
+++ b/docker/federation/start-local-instances.bash
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ set -e
 
 sudo docker-compose down
 
-sudo docker build ../../ --file ../dev/Dockerfile -t lemmy-federation:latest
+sudo docker build ../../ --file ../Dockerfile -t lemmy-federation:latest
 
 for Item in alpha beta gamma delta epsilon ; do
   sudo mkdir -p volumes/pictrs_$Item
diff --git a/docker/dev/lemmy.hjson b/docker/lemmy.hjson
similarity index 92%
rename from docker/dev/lemmy.hjson
rename to docker/lemmy.hjson
index cac95ffdc..f7ffcc1e3 100644
--- a/docker/dev/lemmy.hjson
+++ b/docker/lemmy.hjson
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@
     # api_key: "API_KEY"
   }
 
-  opentelemetry_url: "http://otel:4137"
+  #opentelemetry_url: "http://otel:4137"
 }
diff --git a/docker/dev/nginx.conf b/docker/nginx.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/dev/nginx.conf
rename to docker/nginx.conf
diff --git a/docker/dev/otel.yml b/docker/otel.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/dev/otel.yml
rename to docker/otel.yml
diff --git a/docker/prod/Dockerfile b/docker/prod/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ea67f819..000000000
--- a/docker/prod/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Build the project
-FROM clux/muslrust:1.67.0 as builder
-
-ARG CARGO_BUILD_TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
-ARG RUSTRELEASEDIR="release"
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-COPY ./ ./
-
-RUN echo "pub const VERSION: &str = \"$(git describe --tag)\";" > "crates/utils/src/version.rs"
-RUN cargo build --release
-
-RUN cp ./target/$CARGO_BUILD_TARGET/$RUSTRELEASEDIR/lemmy_server /app/lemmy_server
-
-# The alpine runner
-FROM alpine:3 as lemmy
-
-# Install libpq for postgres
-RUN apk update && apk add libpq
-
-# Copy resources
-COPY --from=builder /app/lemmy_server /app/lemmy
-
-EXPOSE 8536
-CMD ["/app/lemmy"]
diff --git a/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml b/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e7b7568d..000000000
--- a/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-version: "3.3"
-
-networks:
-  # communication to web and clients
-  lemmyexternalproxy:
-  # communication between lemmy services
-  lemmyinternal:
-    driver: bridge
-    internal: true
-
-services:
-  proxy:
-    image: nginx:1-alpine
-    networks:
-      - lemmyinternal
-      - lemmyexternalproxy
-    ports:
-      # only ports facing any connection from outside
-      - 80:80 
-      - 443:443
-    volumes:
-      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
-      # setup your certbot and letsencrypt config 
-      - ./certbot:/var/www/certbot
-      - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt/live
-    restart: always
-    depends_on:
-      - pictrs
-      - lemmy-ui
-
-  lemmy:
-    image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.1
-    hostname: lemmy
-    networks:
-      - lemmyinternal
-    restart: always
-    environment:
-      - RUST_LOG="warn,lemmy_server=info,lemmy_api=info,lemmy_api_common=info,lemmy_api_crud=info,lemmy_apub=info,lemmy_db_schema=info,lemmy_db_views=info,lemmy_db_views_actor=info,lemmy_db_views_moderator=info,lemmy_routes=info,lemmy_utils=info,lemmy_websocket=info"
-    volumes:
-      - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson
-    depends_on:
-      - postgres
-      - pictrs
-
-  lemmy-ui:
-    image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.1
-    networks:
-      - lemmyinternal
-    environment:
-      # this needs to match the hostname defined in the lemmy service
-      - LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536
-      # set the outside hostname here
-      - LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=localhost:1236
-      - LEMMY_HTTPS=true
-    depends_on:
-      - lemmy
-    restart: always
-
-  pictrs:
-    image: asonix/pictrs:0.3.1
-    # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson
-    hostname: pictrs
-    # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion
-    # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp
-    networks:
-      - lemmyinternal
-    environment:
-      - PICTRS__API_KEY=API_KEY
-    user: 991:991
-    volumes:
-      - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt
-    restart: always
-
-  postgres:
-    image: postgres:15-alpine
-    # this needs to match the database host in lemmy.hson
-    hostname: postgres
-    networks:
-      - lemmyinternal
-    environment:
-      - POSTGRES_USER=lemmy
-      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
-      - POSTGRES_DB=lemmy
-    volumes:
-      - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-    restart: always
diff --git a/docker/prod/lemmy.hjson b/docker/prod/lemmy.hjson
deleted file mode 100644
index edbb25356..000000000
--- a/docker/prod/lemmy.hjson
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{
-  # for more info about the config, check out the documentation
-  # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration.html
-  # only few config options are covered in this example config
-
-  setup: {
-    # username for the admin user
-    admin_username: "lemmy"
-    # password for the admin user
-    admin_password: "lemmylemmy"
-    # name of the site (can be changed later)
-    site_name: "mylemmyinstance"
-  }
-
-  # the domain name of your instance (eg "lemmy.ml")
-  hostname: "mydomain.ml"
-  # address where lemmy should listen for incoming requests
-  bind: "0.0.0.0"
-  # port where lemmy should listen for incoming requests
-  port: 8536
-  # Whether the site is available over TLS. Needs to be true for federation to work.
-  tls_enabled: true
-
-  # pictrs host
-  pictrs_url: "http://pictrs:8080"
-
-  # settings related to the postgresql database
-  database: {
-    # name of the postgres database for lemmy
-    database: "lemmy"
-    # username to connect to postgres
-    user: "lemmy"
-    # password to connect to postgres
-    password: "password"
-    # host where postgres is running
-    host: "postgres"
-    # port where postgres can be accessed
-    port: 5432
-    # maximum number of active sql connections
-    pool_size: 5
-  }
-}
-
diff --git a/docker/prod/nginx.conf b/docker/prod/nginx.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 38d64d295..000000000
--- a/docker/prod/nginx.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,147 +0,0 @@
-# nginx example config
-# replace {{yourdomain}} and review the certbot/letsencrypt config
-
-limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone={{yourdomain}}_ratelimit:10m rate=1r/s;
-
-upstream lemmy {
-    # this needs to map to the lemmy (server) docker service hostname
-    server "lemmy:8536";
-}
-upstream lemmy-ui {
-    # this needs to map to the lemmy-ui docker service hostname
-    server "lemmy-ui:1234";
-}
-
-server {
-    # allow letsencrypt challenge
-    # redirect everything else to 443
-    listen 80;
-    listen [::]:80;
-    server_name {{yourdomain}};
-    location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
-        root /var/www/certbot;
-    }
-    location / {
-        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
-    }
-}
-
-server {
-    listen 443 ssl http2;
-    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
-    server_name {{yourdomain}};
-
-    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/{{yourdomain}}/fullchain.pem;
-    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/{{yourdomain}}/privkey.pem;
-
-    # Various TLS hardening settings
-    # https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx.html
-    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
-    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
-    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256';
-    ssl_session_timeout  10m;
-    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
-    ssl_session_tickets on;
-    ssl_stapling on;
-    ssl_stapling_verify on;
-
-    # Hide nginx version
-    server_tokens off;
-
-    # Enable compression for JS/CSS/HTML bundle, for improved client load times.
-    # It might be nice to compress JSON, but leaving that out to protect against potential
-    # compression+encryption information leak attacks like BREACH.
-    gzip on;
-    gzip_types text/css application/javascript image/svg+xml;
-    gzip_vary on;
-
-    # Only connect to this site via HTTPS for the two years
-    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000";
-
-    # Various content security headers
-    add_header Referrer-Policy "same-origin";
-    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
-    add_header X-Frame-Options "DENY";
-    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
-
-    # Upload limit for pictrs
-    client_max_body_size 20M;
-
-    # frontend
-    location / {
-        # distinguish between ui requests and backend
-        # don't change lemmy-ui or lemmy here, they refer to the upstream definitions on top
-        set $proxpass "http://lemmy-ui";
-
-        if ($http_accept = "application/activity+json") {
-            set $proxpass "http://lemmy";
-        }
-        if ($http_accept = "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"") {
-            set $proxpass "http://lemmy";
-        }
-        if ($request_method = POST) {
-            set $proxpass "http://lemmy";
-        }
-        proxy_pass $proxpass;
-
-        rewrite ^(.+)/+$ $1 permanent;
-
-        # Send actual client IP upstream
-        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-    }
-
-    # backend
-    location ~ ^/(api|feeds|nodeinfo|.well-known) {
-        proxy_pass "http://lemmy";
-        proxy_http_version 1.1;
-        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
-        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
-
-        # Rate limit
-        limit_req zone={{yourdomain}}_ratelimit burst=30 nodelay;
-
-        # Add IP forwarding headers
-        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-    }
-
-    # pictrs only - for adding browser cache control.
-    location ~ ^/(pictrs) {
-        # allow browser cache, images never update, we can apply long term cache
-        expires 120d;
-        add_header Pragma "public";
-        add_header Cache-Control "public";
-
-        proxy_pass "http://lemmy";
-        proxy_http_version 1.1;
-        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
-        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
-
-        # Rate limit
-        limit_req zone={{yourdomain}}_ratelimit burst=30 nodelay;
-
-        # Add IP forwarding headers
-        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-    }
-
-    # Redirect pictshare images to pictrs
-    location ~ /pictshare/(.*)$ {
-        return 301 /pictrs/image/$1;
-    }
-}
-
-# Anonymize IP addresses
-# https://www.supertechcrew.com/anonymizing-logs-nginx-apache/
-map $remote_addr $remote_addr_anon {
-    ~(?P<ip>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\.    $ip.0;
-    ~(?P<ip>[^:]+:[^:]+):       $ip::;
-    127.0.0.1                   $remote_addr;
-    ::1                         $remote_addr;
-    default                     0.0.0.0;
-}
-access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log combined;
diff --git a/docker/dev/test_deploy.sh b/docker/test_deploy.sh
similarity index 81%
rename from docker/dev/test_deploy.sh
rename to docker/test_deploy.sh
index 9a734be06..fe91ea317 100755
--- a/docker/dev/test_deploy.sh
+++ b/docker/test_deploy.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=1
 export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
 
 # Rebuilding dev docker
-sudo docker build ../../ -f . -t "dessalines/lemmy:dev"
+sudo docker build ../ -f . -t "dessalines/lemmy:dev"
 sudo docker push "dessalines/lemmy:dev"
 
 # Run the playbook
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index a909fa51a..4b9fdd8e1 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -9,13 +9,11 @@ third_semver=$(echo $new_tag | cut -d "." -f 3)
 # The ansible and docker installs should only update for non release-candidates
 # IE, when the third semver is a number, not '2-rc'
 if [ ! -z "${third_semver##*[!0-9]*}" ]; then
-  pushd ../docker/prod/
-  sed -i "s/dessalines\/lemmy:.*/dessalines\/lemmy:$new_tag/" ../prod/docker-compose.yml
-  sed -i "s/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:.*/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:$new_tag/" ../prod/docker-compose.yml
-  sed -i "s/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:.*/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:$new_tag/" ../dev/docker-compose.yml
+  pushd ../docker
+  sed -i "s/dessalines\/lemmy:.*/dessalines\/lemmy:$new_tag/" ../docker-compose.yml
+  sed -i "s/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:.*/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:$new_tag/" ../docker-compose.yml
   sed -i "s/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:.*/dessalines\/lemmy-ui:$new_tag/" ../federation/docker-compose.yml
-  git add ../prod/docker-compose.yml
-  git add ../dev/docker-compose.yml
+  git add ../docker-compose.yml
   git add ../federation/docker-compose.yml
   popd
 
diff --git a/scripts/restore_db.sh b/scripts/restore_db.sh
index 318b99099..a886fc08d 100755
--- a/scripts/restore_db.sh
+++ b/scripts/restore_db.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 psql -U lemmy -c "DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE; CREATE SCHEMA public;"
-cat docker/dev/lemmy_dump_2021-01-29_16_13_40.sqldump | psql -U lemmy
+cat docker/lemmy_dump_2021-01-29_16_13_40.sqldump | psql -U lemmy
 psql -U lemmy -c "alter user lemmy with password 'password'"