diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index cf75812..0000000
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-.git
-.github
-target
-ui/node_modules
-ui/target
-ui/dist
-ui/.dioxus
-**/*.log
-**/*.tmp
diff --git a/.github/workflows/manual-release.yml b/.github/workflows/manual-release.yml
index b75af88..752d33d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/manual-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/manual-release.yml
@@ -7,11 +7,6 @@ on:
         description: "Release tag (stable: v1.2.3 — beta: v1.2.3-beta.1; hyphen after v => GitHub pre-release, in-app beta channel)"
         required: true
         type: string
-      publish_docker:
-        description: "Publish iroh-gateway image"
-        required: false
-        default: true
-        type: boolean
 
 jobs:
   bundle:
@@ -426,30 +421,3 @@ jobs:
             artifacts/**/ui/dist/*.dmg
             artifacts/**/ui/dist/*.AppImage
             artifacts/**/ui/dist/*.exe
-
-  publish-docker:
-    if: ${{ inputs.publish_docker }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: write
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
-
-      - name: Log in to GHCR
-        uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Build and push iroh-gateway image
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
-        with:
-          context: .
-          file: Dockerfile
-          push: true
-          tags: ghcr.io/datum-cloud/iroh-gateway:${{ inputs.version }}
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 102e5bb..0000000
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-FROM rust:1.98-bookworm AS builder
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-COPY . .
-
-RUN cargo build -p datum-connect --release
-
-FROM debian:bookworm-slim
-
-RUN apt-get update \
-  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-  && useradd -u 65532 -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin datum
-
-COPY --from=builder /app/target/release/datum-connect /usr/local/bin/datum-connect
-
-USER 65532:65532
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/datum-connect"]
-CMD ["gateway"]