diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 55f5f76939bdbc94bf6023ca74c7ccabb7633c4e..8132a23fc9e3d44e74f8380fa5e3dcc3918ecc3b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Uses OpenAI API to determine if a research idea is reasonable and novel for the
 ## Deploy
 ### Docker-compose
 ```
-docker-compose up
+docker-compose up --rebuild --force=recreate
 ```
 
 You can use the `-d` flag at the end to runin in detached (background) mode
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ To stop the app,
 
 ```
 docker-compose down
-```
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+```
+
+or ctrl+c once to gracefully exit, twice to ungracefully exit. 
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diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index ac687ad75d65c632944f2af533dda89e08de72a0..2d6aae8cf1025aa6da7f6512a9a030fa2053c900 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@ import os
 
 # secrets
 def manage_sensitive(name):
+    v1 = os.getenv(name)
     secret_fpath = f'/run/secrets/{name}'
     existence = os.path.exists(secret_fpath)
     
+    if v1 is not None:
+        return v1
+    
     if existence:
         v2 = open(secret_fpath).read().rstrip('\n')
         return v2
diff --git a/deploy/Dockerfile b/deploy/Dockerfile
index 7a882fcff765741900dc12091f81e0b597d79058..d5ef46467a5c57d73550ff2ef8a49bee573d4b1e 100644
--- a/deploy/Dockerfile
+++ b/deploy/Dockerfile
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ RUN curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add - && \
 # Check if repo has been updated since last build
 ADD "https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/anes_ai/mpog-helper-openai/commits?per_page=1" latest_commit
 RUN rm -rf latest_commit
-RUN git clone -b feature/azure2 https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/anes_ai/mpog-helper-openai.git .
+RUN git clone https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/anes_ai/mpog-helper-openai.git .
 
 #COPY .streamlit/secrets.toml /deploy/.streamlit/