diff --git a/apps/cic-cache/.gitlab-ci.yml b/apps/cic-cache/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8cbce963..1234a87c 100644
--- a/apps/cic-cache/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/apps/cic-cache/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .cic_cache_variables:
     variables:
         APP_NAME: cic-cache
-        DOCKERFILE_PATH: docker/Dockerfile
+        DOCKERFILE_PATH: docker/Dockerfile_ci
         CONTEXT: apps/$APP_NAME
 
 build-mr-cic-cache:
@@ -14,6 +14,31 @@ build-mr-cic-cache:
           - apps/cic-cache/**/*
       when: always
 
+test-mr-cic-eth:
+    stage: test
+    extends:
+        - .cic_eth_variables
+    cache:
+        key:
+            files:
+                - test_requirements.txt
+        paths:
+        - /root/.cache/pip
+    image: $MR_IMAGE_TAG
+    script:
+        - cd apps/$APP_NAME/
+        - >
+          pip install --extra-index-url https://pip.grassrootseconomics.net:8433
+          --extra-index-url https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/27624814/packages/pypi/simple
+          -r test_requirements.txt 
+        - export PYTHONPATH=. && pytest -x --cov=cic_cache --cov-fail-under=90 --cov-report term-missing tests
+    needs: ["build-mr-cic-eth"]
+    rules:
+    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"
+      changes:
+          - apps/cic-eth/**/*
+      when: always
+
 build-push-cic-cache:
     extends:
         - .py_build_push
diff --git a/apps/cic-cache/docker/Dockerfile_ci b/apps/cic-cache/docker/Dockerfile_ci
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9f49cac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/cic-cache/docker/Dockerfile_ci
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# syntax = docker/dockerfile:1.2
+FROM registry.gitlab.com/grassrootseconomics/cic-base-images:python-3.8.6-dev-55da5f4e as dev
+ 
+# RUN pip install $pip_extra_index_url_flag cic-base[full_graph]==0.1.2b9
+
+COPY requirements.txt .
+#RUN pip install $pip_extra_index_url_flag -r test_requirements.txt
+#RUN pip install $pip_extra_index_url_flag .
+#RUN pip install .[server]
+
+ARG EXTRA_INDEX_URL="https://pip.grassrootseconomics.net:8433"
+ARG GITLAB_PYTHON_REGISTRY="https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/27624814/packages/pypi/simple"
+RUN pip install --index-url https://pypi.org/simple  \
+	  --extra-index-url $GITLAB_PYTHON_REGISTRY --extra-index-url $EXTRA_INDEX_URL \
+    -r requirements.txt
+
+COPY . . 
+
+RUN python setup.py install
+
+# ini files in config directory defines the configurable parameters for the application
+# they can all be overridden by environment variables
+# to generate a list of environment variables from configuration, use: confini-dump -z <dir> (executable provided by confini package)
+COPY config/ /usr/local/etc/cic-cache/
+
+# for db migrations
+RUN git clone https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it.git /usr/local/bin/wait-for-it/
+COPY cic_cache/db/migrations/ /usr/local/share/cic-cache/alembic/
+
+COPY /docker/start_tracker.sh ./start_tracker.sh
+COPY /docker/db.sh ./db.sh
+RUN chmod 755 ./*.sh
+# Tracker
+# ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/cic-cache-tracker", "-vv"]
+# Server
+# ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/local/bin/uwsgi", "--wsgi-file", "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cic_cache/runnable/server.py", "--http", ":80", "--pyargv", "-vv" ]
+ENTRYPOINT []