diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba575da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+.git
+.gitignore
+.venv
+__pycache__
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+*.pyd
+.pytest_cache
+.coverage
+htmlcov
+logs
+data
+tmp
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6c0c97e..dec63e2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 COPY . .
 
-# Drop privileges
-RUN useradd -m -u 1000 myfsio \ 
+# Create data directory and set permissions
+RUN mkdir -p /app/data \
+    && useradd -m -u 1000 myfsio \ 
     && chown -R myfsio:myfsio /app
+
 USER myfsio
 
 EXPOSE 5000 5100
diff --git a/app/version.py b/app/version.py
index d2eb696..122431b 100644
--- a/app/version.py
+++ b/app/version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Central location for the application version string."""
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-APP_VERSION = "0.1.0"
+APP_VERSION = "0.1.0b2"
 
 
 def get_version() -> str: