diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a4bca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Generated files
+**/__pycache__
+tags
+/.cache/
+.idea/
+env
+venv/
+.venv/
+**/*.py[cod]
+
+**/*.db
+**/repo
+**/data
+
+.git
+.gitignore
+.gitattributes
+
+# Editor and other backup files
+**/*.swp
+**/*~
+**/~*
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 1f4315c..2f53b75 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -357,20 +357,50 @@ where all repositories are found.
 
 = Building Docker images
 
-Docker files are provided in the `docker/` directory. To generate a Docker image
-for indexing the sources of a project, first fetch the Elixir repository. Then
-pick the project you want to index (Musl is nice test data being not too slow
-to index) and your target distribution (`debian` currently), and
-run:
+Dockerfiles are provided in the `docker/` directory. To build the image, run the following commands:
 
- $ docker build -t elixir-debian --build-arg GIT_REPO_URL=git://git.musl-libc.org/musl --build-arg PROJECT=musl ./docker/debian/
+ # git clone https://github.com/bootlin/elixir.git ./elixir
+ # docker build -t elixir -f ./elixir/docker/Dockerfile ./elixir
 
-Then you can use your new container as follows (you get the container id from the output of `docker build`):
+You can then run the image using `docker run`.
+It is recommended to mount a volume or a host directory into the Elixir data directory.
+This allows you to easily replace the container with a new version without losing indexing data.
 
- $ docker run <container-id>
+ # mkdir ./elixir-data
+ # docker run -v ./elixir-data/:/srv/elixir-data -d --name elixir-container elixir
 
-You can the open the below URL in a browser on your host: http://172.17.0.2/musl/latest/source
-(change the container IP address if you don't get the default one)
+The Docker image does not contain any repositories. To index a repository, you can use a utility script - index-repository.
+For example, to add musl repository, run:
+
+ # docker exec -it elixir-container /usr/local/elixir/utils/index-repository musl https://git.musl-libc.org/git/musl
+
+Or, to run indexing in a separate container:
+
+ # docker run -v ./elixir-data/:/srv/elixir-data --entrypoint /usr/local/elixir/utils/index-repository elixir musl https://git.musl-libc.org/git/musl
+
+You can also use utils/index-all-repositories to start indexing all officially supported repositories.
+
+After indexing is done, Elixir should be available under the following URL on your host:
+http://172.17.0.2/musl/latest/source
+
+If 172.17.0.2 does not answer, you can check the IP address of the container by running:
+
+ # docker inspect elixir-container | grep IPAddress
+
+== Automatic repository updates
+
+The Docker image does not automatically update repositories by itself.
+You can, for example, start `utils/update-elixir-data` in the container (or in a separate container, with Elixir data volume/directory mounted)
+from cron on the host to periodically update repositories.
+
+== Using Docker image as a development server
+
+You can easily use the Docker image as a development server by following the steps above, but mounting Elixir source directory from the host
+into `/usr/local/elixir/` in the container when running `docker run elixir`.
+
+Changes in the code made on the host should be automatically reflected in the container.
+You can use `apache2ctl` to restart Apache.
+Error logs are available in `/var/log/apache2/error.log` and `/tmp/elixir-errors` within the container.
 
 = Hardware requirements
 
diff --git a/docker/debian/000-default.conf b/docker/000-default.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/debian/000-default.conf
rename to docker/000-default.conf
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e41403
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+FROM debian:bookworm
+
+RUN \
+  apt-get update && \
+  apt-get --no-install-recommends -y install \
+    python3 \
+    python3-pip \
+    python3-falcon \
+    python3-jinja2 \
+    python3-bsddb3 \
+    python3-pytest \
+    python3-pygments \
+    perl \
+    git \
+    apache2 \
+    libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 \
+    libjansson4 \
+    libyaml-0-2 \
+    wget
+
+RUN \
+  wget https://bootlin.com/pub/elixir/universal-ctags_0+git20200526-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
+
+RUN \
+  dpkg -i universal-ctags_0+git20200526-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
+
+COPY . /usr/local/elixir/
+
+RUN mkdir -p /srv/elixir-data/ 
+
+# apache elixir config, see elixir README
+# make apache less stricter about cgitb spam headers
+COPY ./docker/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
+
+RUN \
+  echo -e "\nHttpProtocolOptions Unsafe" >> /etc/apache2/apache.conf && \
+  a2enmod cgi rewrite
+
+EXPOSE 80
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]
diff --git a/docker/debian/Dockerfile b/docker/debian/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index d5c0cc5..0000000
--- a/docker/debian/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-FROM debian:bookworm
-ARG GIT_REPO_URL
-ARG PROJECT
-
-RUN \
-    : "${GIT_REPO_URL:?set GIT_REPO_URL to the repo git url}"
-
-RUN \
-    : "${PROJECT:?set PROJECT to set the project name}"
-
-RUN \
-    echo "repo url to index: ${GIT_REPO_URL}"
-
-
-RUN \
-  apt-get update && \
-  apt-get --no-install-recommends -y install \
-    python3 \
-    python3-pip \
-    python3-falcon \
-    python3-jinja2 \
-    python3-bsddb3 \
-    python3-pytest \
-    python3-pygments- \
-    pipx \
-    perl \
-    git \
-    apache2 \
-    libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 \
-    libjansson4 \
-    libyaml-0-2 \
-    wget
-
-RUN \
-  wget https://bootlin.com/pub/elixir/universal-ctags_0+git20200526-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-
-RUN \
-  dpkg -i universal-ctags_0+git20200526-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
-
-RUN \
-  wget https://bootlin.com/pub/elixir/Pygments-2.6.1.elixir-py3-none-any.whl
-
-RUN \
-  pip3 install ./Pygments-2.6.1.elixir-py3-none-any.whl --break-system-packages
-
-RUN \
-  git config --global user.email 'elixir@dummy.com' && \
-  git config --global user.name 'elixir'
-
-RUN \
-  git clone https://github.com/bootlin/elixir.git /usr/local/elixir/
-
-RUN \
-  mkdir -p /srv/elixir-data/ && \
-  mkdir -p /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/repo && \
-  mkdir -p /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/data && \
-  git clone --bare "${GIT_REPO_URL}" /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/repo/ && \
-  git config --global --add safe.directory /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/repo
-
-ENV LXR_REPO_DIR /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/repo
-ENV LXR_DATA_DIR /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/data
-
-RUN \
-  cd /usr/local/elixir/ && \
-  ./script.sh list-tags && \
-  python3 -u ./update.py && \
-  chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/elixir-data/$PROJECT/repo
-
-# apache elixir config, see elixir README
-# make apache less stricter about cgitb spam headers
-COPY ./000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
-
-RUN \
-  echo -e "\nHttpProtocolOptions Unsafe" >> /etc/apache2/apache.conf && \
-  a2enmod cgi rewrite
-
-EXPOSE 80
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]
diff --git a/utils/index-repository b/utils/index-repository
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a73f0ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/index-repository
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 repo_name repo_url"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+dir=/srv/elixir-data/$1
+
+mkdir -p $dir/data
+git clone --bare $2 $dir/repo
+git config --system --add safe.directory $dir/repo
+
+export LXR_REPO_DIR=$dir/repo
+export LXR_DATA_DIR=$dir/data
+python3 /usr/local/elixir/update.py