diff --git a/docker/README.md b/docker/README.md
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+# Frontend development environments
+
+Install [Docker Desktop][docker-desktop] as per its instructions, available for Windows, Mac
+and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora).
+This ensures that the development experience between Linux, Mac and Windows is as
+similar as possible.
+
+> IMPORTANT: be methodic during the installation of Docker Desktop, and proceed
+> step by step as described in their documentation. Make sure that your system
+> meets the system requirements before installing Docker Desktop, and read any
+> post-installation note, specially on Linux: [Differences between
+> Docker Desktop for Linux and Docker Engine][docker-variant].
+
+## Pre-requisites
+
+1. Assign resources to [Docker Desktop][docker-desktop]. The requirements for the
+   environments are:
+
+   - 8 GB of RAM (minimum)
+   - 4 cores
+
+   The more resources the better ☺
+
+2. Clone the [wazuh-indexer][wi-repo].
+
+3. Set up user permissions
+
+   The Docker volumes will be created by the internal Docker user, making them
+   read-only. To prevent this, a new group named `docker-desktop` and GUID 100999
+   needs to be created, then added to your user and the source code folder:
+
+   ```bash
+   sudo groupadd -g 100999 docker-desktop
+   sudo useradd -u 100999 -g 100999 -M docker-desktop
+   sudo chown -R docker-desktop:docker-desktop $WZD_HOME
+   sudo usermod -aG docker-desktop $USER
+   ```
+
+## Understanding Docker contexts
+
+Before we begin starting Docker containers, we need to understand the
+differences between Docker Engine and Docker Desktop, more precisely, that the
+use different contexts.
+
+Carefully read these two sections of the Docker documentation:
+
+- [Differences between Docker Desktop for Linux and Docker Engine][docker-variant].
+- [Switch between Docker Desktop and Docker Engine][docker-context].
+
+Docker Desktop will change to its context automatically at start, so be sure
+that any existing Docker container using the default context is **stopped**
+before starting Docker Desktop and any of the environments in this folder.
+
+## Starting up the environments
+
+Use the sh script to up the environment.
+
+Example:
+
+```bash
+Usage: ./dev.sh {up|down|stop} [security]
+```
+
+Once the `wazuh-indexer` container is up, attach a shell to it and run `./gradlew run`
+to start the application.
+
+
+[docker-desktop]: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker
+[docker-variant]: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/linux-install/#differences-between-docker-desktop-for-linux-and-docker-engine
+[docker-context]: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/linux-install/#context
+[wi-repo]: https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh-indexer
diff --git a/docker/dev.sh b/docker/dev.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Attaches the project as a volume to a JDK 17 container
+# Requires Docker
+# Script usage: bash ./dev.sh
+
+set -e
+
+# ====
+# Checks that the script is run from the intended location
+# ====
+function check_project_root_folder () {
+    if [[ "$0" != "./dev.sh" && "$0" != "dev.sh" ]]; then
+        echo "Run the script from its location" 
+        usage
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    # Change working directory to the root of the repository
+    cd ..
+}
+
+# ====
+# Displays usage
+# ====
+function usage() {
+    echo "Usage: ./dev.sh {up|down|stop}"
+}
+
+# ====
+# Main function
+# ====
+function main() {
+    check_project_root_folder "$@"
+    compose_file=docker/dev.yml
+    compose_cmd="docker compose -f $compose_file"
+    REPO_PATH=$(pwd)
+    VERSION=$(cat VERSION)
+    export REPO_PATH
+    export VERSION
+
+    case $1 in
+    up)
+        $compose_cmd up -d
+        ;;
+    down)
+        $compose_cmd down
+        ;;
+    stop)
+        $compose_cmd stop
+        ;;
+    *)
+        usage
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+main "$@"
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+version: "3.9"
+
+services:
+
+  wazuh-indexer:
+    image: wazuh-indexer-dev:${VERSION}
+    container_name: wazuh-indexer-dev-${VERSION}
+    build:
+      context: ./..
+      dockerfile: ${REPO_PATH}/docker/images/wi-dev.Dockerfile
+    ports:
+      # OpenSearch REST API
+      - 9200:9200
+      # Cross-cluster search
+      # - 9250:9250
+      # Node communication and transport
+      # - 9300:9300
+      # Performance Analyzer
+      # - 9600:9600
+    expose:
+      - 9200
+    volumes:
+      - ${REPO_PATH}:/home/wazuh-indexer/app
+    entrypoint: ['tail', '-f', '/dev/null']
+    user: "1000:1000"
+    working_dir: /home/wazuh-indexer/app
diff --git a/docker/images/.dockerignore b/docker/images/.dockerignore
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+artifacts/
+
+# intellij files
+.idea/
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+*.iws
+build-idea/
+out/
+
+# include shared intellij config
+!.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
+!.idea/runConfigurations/Debug_OpenSearch.xml
+!.idea/vcs.xml
+
+# These files are generated in the main tree by annotation processors
+benchmarks/src/main/generated/*
+benchmarks/bin/*
+benchmarks/build-eclipse-default/*
+server/bin/*
+server/build-eclipse-default/*
+test/framework/build-eclipse-default/*
+
+# eclipse files
+.project
+.classpath
+.settings
+build-eclipse/
+
+# netbeans files
+nb-configuration.xml
+nbactions.xml
+
+# gradle stuff
+.gradle/
+build/
+
+# vscode stuff
+.vscode/
+
+# testing stuff
+**/.local*
+.vagrant/
+/logs/
+
+# osx stuff
+.DS_Store
+
+# default folders in which the create_bwc_index.py expects to find old es versions in
+/backwards
+/dev-tools/backwards
+
+# needed in case docs build is run...maybe we can configure doc build to generate files under build?
+html_docs
+
+# random old stuff that we should look at the necessity of...
+/tmp/
+eclipse-build
+
+# projects using testfixtures
+testfixtures_shared/
+
+# These are generated from .ci/jobs.t
+.ci/jobs/
+
+# build files generated
+doc-tools/missing-doclet/bin/
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diff --git a/docker/images/wi-dev.Dockerfile b/docker/images/wi-dev.Dockerfile
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+FROM gradle:jdk17-alpine AS builder
+USER gradle
+WORKDIR /home/wazuh-indexer/app
+COPY --chown=gradle:gradle . /home/wazuh-indexer/app
+RUN gradle clean
+
+
+FROM eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-alpine
+RUN addgroup -g 1000 wazuh-indexer && \
+    adduser -u 1000 -G wazuh-indexer -D -h /home/wazuh-indexer wazuh-indexer && \
+    chmod 0775 /home/wazuh-indexer && \
+    chown -R 1000:0 /home/wazuh-indexer
+USER wazuh-indexer
+COPY --from=builder --chown=1000:0 /home/wazuh-indexer/app /home/wazuh-indexer/app
+WORKDIR /home/wazuh-indexer/app
+EXPOSE 9200 9300