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@@ -2,14 +2,6 @@
 
 Communications Backbone by C2 Team (NOC)
 
-## DJ prototype 
-
-I did this in freedom-fire-day so it doesn't currently follow the flask template. 
-
-It's also a bit weird because it writes to a local ignored `clients.json` file 
-instead of using a database. I did this as a placeholder because we've not yet 
-decided what the infrastructure looks like.
-
 ### Data flow 
 
 - Client A sends to `client-a-outbox` (or POSTs to API /send - not yet implemented)
@@ -31,14 +23,23 @@ which queues it reads from.
 
 Subsequent requests to the client endpoint return the client_id but not the secret.
 
-### Setup 
+### Running via docker-compose
+
+Using `docker-compose` will mean that everything is setup automatically, this includes the `rabbitmq` container, the backbone API, and the backbone bus. The `run-compose.sh` script has been provided to simplify this even further - all you have to do is set whatever env vars you need in the `.env` file and then run `./run-compose.sh` (the defaults in `.env` are fine for local dev work, but ones not labelled `optional` will need setting in a production setting). The env vars are:
+
+- `MQ_HOST` - The hostname of our `rabbitmq` instance. This defaults to `rmq` which matches the container name of the `rabbitmq` instance in the compose yaml file
+- `DATA_DIR` - Where to mount the volume of the API container on your local system. This defaults to the result of `pwd`, which should be within the `communications-backbone` repo
+- `SOAR_TOKEN_LIFETIME` (Optional) - The number of hours until a newly created token expires
+- `SOAR_TOKEN_SECRET` (Optional) - A secret key used to encrypt/decrypt token data. If specified the value should be set using TokenModel.getKey()
+
+### Running manually
+
+#### Setup 
 
 ```
 pipenv install  
 ```
 
-### Running 
-
 #### RabbitMQ 
 
 `docker run --rm -p 5672:5672 -d --hostname rmq --name rmq rabbitmq:management`
diff --git a/run-compose.sh b/run-compose.sh
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--- a/run-compose.sh
+++ b/run-compose.sh
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@ if [[ -z "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
     DATA_DIR=$(pwd)
 fi
 
+if [[ -z "${MQ_HOST}" ]]; then
+    MQ_HOST=rmq
+fi
+
 docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yaml up --build
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