diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1d728359..7bcbe56d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 FROM amazoncorretto:17
-
+# Need to take node on the X-APi-KEY environment varibale
 WORKDIR /app
 
 COPY ./target/es-indexer-*.jar /app/app.jar
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application-dev.yaml b/src/main/resources/application-dev.yaml
index 1d72891f..bf5d3429 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application-dev.yaml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application-dev.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-# Client calling the Indexer API must provide this token in the Authorization header
-app:
-  http:
-    authToken: sample-auth-token
-
 server:
   port: 8081
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index f93687fd..2938ba8d 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ server:
   port: 8080
   error:
     include-stacktrace: never
+
+# Client calling the Indexer API must provide this token in the Authorization header
 app:
   http:
     auth-token-header-name: X-API-Key
+    authToken: ${INDEXER_APIKEY:sample-auth-token}
 
 management:
   health: