diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 89aa3c1..41764b2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ WORKDIR /app
 
 RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" appuser
 
-COPY pyproject.toml uv.lock ./
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir uv \
-    && uv pip install --system --no-cache .
+COPY requirements.txt ./
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 COPY app ./app
 COPY .env.example ./.env.example
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8224502
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+beautifulsoup4>=4.12.3
+fastapi>=0.115.0
+httpx>=0.27.0
+jinja2>=3.1.4
+pydantic>=2.8.0
+pydantic-settings>=2.4.0
+sqlalchemy>=2.0.32
+uvicorn[standard]>=0.30.6
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_deployment_config.py b/tests/unit/test_deployment_config.py
index 4bc4da6..b656f17 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_deployment_config.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_deployment_config.py
@@ -29,3 +29,19 @@ def test_real_env_file_is_gitignored():
     gitignore_lines = (ROOT / ".gitignore").read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()
 
     assert ".env" in gitignore_lines
+
+
+def test_dockerfile_does_not_bootstrap_uv_from_runtime_pip():
+    dockerfile_content = (ROOT / "Dockerfile").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+    assert "pip install --no-cache-dir uv" not in dockerfile_content
+    assert "uv pip install" not in dockerfile_content
+
+
+def test_dockerfile_installs_project_without_build_isolation():
+    dockerfile_content = (ROOT / "Dockerfile").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+    assert "COPY requirements.txt ./" in dockerfile_content
+    assert "pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt" in dockerfile_content
+    assert "pip install --no-cache-dir ." not in dockerfile_content
+    assert "pip install --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation ." not in dockerfile_content