diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index cb2a376c16..b37ccbf0fe 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # exclude items not needed/conflict on docker image
 
+.git
+.idea
+.DS_Store
 .github
 venv
 .venv
diff --git a/data/pickles/.gitkeep b/data/pickles/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 3a86c9afd5..1bc6ebeb6c 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 version: '3.5'
 services:
   tram:
-    image: ghcr.io/center-for-threat-informed-defense/tram:latest
+    image: ghcr.io/center-for-threat-informed-defense/tram-private:swfarnsworth-bert-django-container-buildable
     environment:
       - DATA_DIRECTORY=/tram/data
       - ALLOWED_HOSTS=["example_host1", "localhost"]
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ services:
       - tram:/tram/data
       - tram_static:/tram/src/tram/staticfiles
   nginx:
-    image: ghcr.io/center-for-threat-informed-defense/tram-nginx:latest
+    image: ghcr.io/center-for-threat-informed-defense/tram-private-nginx:swfarnsworth-bert-django-container-buildable
     ports:
       - "8000:80"
     volumes:
diff --git a/src/tram/ml/base.py b/src/tram/ml/base.py
index 786b99260d..c03046d306 100644
--- a/src/tram/ml/base.py
+++ b/src/tram/ml/base.py
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ def run_model(self, run_forever=False):
             time.sleep(1)
 
     def get_model_filepath(self, model_class):
-        filepath = settings.ML_MODEL_DIR + "/" + model_class.__name__ + ".pkl"
+        filepath = settings.PICKLE_DIR + "/" + model_class.__name__ + ".pkl"
         return filepath
 
     def train_model(self):
diff --git a/src/tram/settings.py b/src/tram/settings.py
index b3023838ca..49893a6a9c 100644
--- a/src/tram/settings.py
+++ b/src/tram/settings.py
@@ -225,5 +225,6 @@
 }
 
 ML_MODEL_DIR = os.path.join(DATA_DIRECTORY, "ml-models")
+PICKLE_DIR = os.path.join(DATA_DIRECTORY, "pickles")
 
 DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = "django.db.models.AutoField"