diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/Dockerfile b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/Dockerfile
index 96b9bee..3ff5742 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/Dockerfile
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/Dockerfile
@@ -91,38 +91,13 @@ ENV PATH /app/venv/bin:$PATH
 ENV STATIC_ROOT=/app/static
 COPY --chown=django:django --from=venv $STATIC_ROOT $STATIC_ROOT
 
-# uWSGI env vars
-##############################################
-ENV UWSGI_HTTP=:8000
-ENV UWSGI_CHDIR="/app/src"
-ENV UWSGI_WSGI_FILE="/app/src/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/wsgi.py"
-
-ENV UWSGI_MASTER=1
-ENV UWSGI_HTTP_AUTO_CHUNKED=1
-ENV UWSGI_HTTP_KEEPALIVE=1
-ENV UWSGI_UID=1000
-ENV UWSGI_GID=1000
-ENV UWSGI_WSGI_ENV_BEHAVIOR=holy
-ENV UWSGI_DIE_ON_TERM=true
-ENV UWSGI_STRICT=true
-ENV UWSGI_NEED_APP=true
-
-# Tweak for perf
-ENV UWSGI_SINGLE_INTERPRETER=true
-ENV UWSGI_AUTO_PROCNAME=true
-ENV UWSGI_MAX_REQUESTS=5000
-ENV UWSGI_MAX_WORKER_LIFETIME=3600
-ENV UWSGI_RELOAD_ON_RSS=500
-ENV UWSGI_WORKER_RELOAD_MERCY=10
-ENV UWSGI_WORKERS=2 UWSGI_THREADS=4
-
 # Create directory structure
 ##############################################
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY pyproject.toml poetry.lock ./
 ADD --chown=django:django ./src ./src
+ADD --chown=django:django ./docker ./docker
 COPY --chown=django:django tasks.py ./tasks.py
-COPY --chown=django:django docker/uwsgi.ini ./uwsgi.ini
 
 
 RUN mkdir -p /app/data
@@ -132,5 +107,7 @@ EXPOSE 8000
 
 WORKDIR /app/src
 
+HEALTHCHECK --start-period=30s CMD python -c "import requests; requests.get('http://localhost:8000', timeout=2)"
+
 USER django
-CMD ["uwsgi", "--show-config", "--ini", "/app/uwsgi.ini"]
+CMD ["/app/docker/run.sh"]
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/docker/run.sh b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/docker/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..17cd9fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/docker/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -eux
+python manage.py migrate --noinput
+gunicorn {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}.wsgi -b 0.0.0.0:8000 --log-file -
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/docker/uwsgi.ini b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/docker/uwsgi.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index a841ae5..0000000
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/docker/uwsgi.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-[uwsgi]
-plugin = /app/escape_json_plugin.so
-
-static-map = /media=/app/data/media/
-logger-req = stdio
-; json_uri and json_host are json-escaped fields defined in `escape_json_plugin.so`
-log-format = "address":"%(addr)", "host":"%(json_host)", "method":"%(method)", "uri":"%(json_uri)", "protocol":"%(proto)", "resp_size":%(size), "req_body_size":%(cl), "resp_status":%(status), "resp_time":%(msecs), "referer":"%(referer)", "user_agent":"%(uagent)"
-log-req-encoder = format {"source":"uwsgi-req", "time":"${strftime:%%FT%%T%%z}", ${msg}}
-log-req-encoder = nl
-
-; Ignore write errors
-; https://github.com/getsentry/raven-python/issues/732#issuecomment-176854438
-ignore-sigpipe = true
-ignore-write-errors = true
-disable-write-exception = true
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
index 063b629..fbe54ad 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ django-linear-migrations = ">=2.2.0"
 django-extensions = ">=3.1.5"
 psycopg2-binary = ">=2.8"
 whitenoise = ">=6.2"
-uWSGI = ">=2.0.21"
+requests = ">=2.28.1"
+gunicorn = ">=20.1.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 django-debug-toolbar = ">=3.2"