+Deploying Tunnelbroker consists of configuration, building its Docker image, and deploying that image as a Docker compose service.
+
+### Configuration
+
+Keyserver interacts with many other services and tools. To communicate needed values to the docker instance, the following must be added to `keyserver/.env`:
+
+```
+# Mandatory
+COMM_DATABASE_DATABASE=comm
+COMM_DATABASE_USER=<located in keyserver/secrets/db_config.json>
+COMM_DATABASE_PASSWORD=<located in keyserver/secrets/db_config.json>