diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index 6d3def015..3811d1418 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -1,28 +1,84 @@
+##################################################################################
+# BASE ###########################################################################
+##################################################################################
 FROM node:12.19.0-alpine3.10 as base
-LABEL Description="Backend of the Social Network ocelot.social" Vendor="ocelot.social Community" Version="0.0.1" Maintainer="ocelot.social Community (devops@ocelot.social)"
 
-EXPOSE 4000
-CMD ["yarn", "run", "start"]
-ARG BUILD_COMMIT
-ENV BUILD_COMMIT=$BUILD_COMMIT
-ARG WORKDIR=/develop-backend
-RUN mkdir -p $WORKDIR
-WORKDIR $WORKDIR
+# ENVs (available in production aswell, can be overwritten by commandline or env file)
+## DOCKER_WORKDIR would be a classical ARG, but that is not multi layer persistent - shame
+ENV DOCKER_WORKDIR="/app"
+## We Cannot do `$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')` here so we use unix timestamp=0
+ENV BUILD_DATE="1970-01-01T00:00:00.00Z"
+## We cannot do $(yarn run version) here so we default to 0.0.0
+## TODO: Missing Build number - do that once we have a CI which actually generates it
+ENV BUILD_VERSION="0.0.0"
+## We cannot do `$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)` here so we default to 0000000
+ENV BUILD_COMMIT="0000000"
+## SET NODE_ENV
+ENV NODE_ENV=production
+## App Envs
+ENV PORT="3000"
 
-RUN apk --no-cache add git
+# Labels
+LABEL org.label-schema.build-date="${BUILD_DATE}"
+LABEL org.label-schema.name="ocelot.social:backend"
+LABEL org.label-schema.description="Backend of the Social Network Software ocelot.social"
+LABEL org.label-schema.usage="https://github.com/Ocelot-Social-Community/Ocelot-Social/blob/master/README.md"
+LABEL org.label-schema.url="https://ocelot.social"
+LABEL org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/Ocelot-Social-Community/Ocelot-Social/tree/master/backend"
+LABEL org.label-schema.vcs-ref="${BUILD_COMMIT}"
+LABEL org.label-schema.vendor="ocelot.social Community"
+LABEL org.label-schema.version="${VERSION}"
+LABEL org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0"
+LABEL maintainer="devops@ocelot.social"
 
+# Settings
+EXPOSE ${PORT}
+WORKDIR ${DOCKER_WORKDIR}
+
+## Make Workdir
+RUN mkdir -p ${DOCKER_WORKDIR}
+## Additional Software
+RUN apk --no-cache add git  
+## Copy package.json, yarn.lock, .env
 COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
 COPY .env.template .env
 
-FROM base as build-and-test
-RUN yarn install --production=false --frozen-lockfile --non-interactive
-COPY . .
-RUN NODE_ENV=production yarn run build
+# Run command
+CMD ["yarn", "run", "start"]
 
-# reduce image size with a multistage build
+##################################################################################
+# DEVELOPMENT (Connected to the local environment, to reload on demand) ##########
+##################################################################################
+FROM base as development
+
+# We don't need to copy or build anything since we gonna bind to the
+# local filesystem which will need a rebuild anyway
+
+# Define Volume for workdir folder on development
+VOLUME ${DOCKER_WORKDIR}
+
+##################################################################################
+# BUILD (Does contain all files and is therefore bloated) ########################
+##################################################################################
+FROM base as build
+
+# Copy everything
+COPY . .
+# yarn install
+RUN yarn install --production=false --frozen-lockfile --non-interactive
+# yarn build
+RUN yarn run build
+
+##################################################################################
+# PRODUCTION (Does contain only "binary"- and static-files to reduce image size) #
+##################################################################################
 FROM base as production
-ENV NODE_ENV=production
-COPY --from=build-and-test /develop-backend/dist ./dist
+
+# Copy "binary"-files from build image
+COPY --from=build ${DOCKER_WORKDIR}/dist ./dist
+# Copy static files
+# TODO - externalize the uploads so we can copy the whole folder
 COPY ./public/img/ ./public/img/
 COPY ./public/providers.json ./public/providers.json
-RUN yarn install --production=true --frozen-lockfile --non-interactive --no-cache
+# yarn install
+RUN yarn install --production=true --frozen-lockfile --non-interactive --no-cache
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