diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittest.yml b/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
index 61312b3..96aff35 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
@@ -34,9 +34,29 @@ jobs:
           cache-downloads-key: ${{ runner.os }}-downloads-${{ hashFiles('**/environment.yml') }}
       - name: Start docker containers
         run: |
-          cp ./config/docker-compose.envlocal.yml docker-compose.yml
-          docker compose up --build -d
+          cp ./config/docker-compose.coverage.yml docker-compose.yml
+          docker-compose up --build -d
       - name: Sleep, wait for containers to start up
         run: sleep 30
       - name: Run unit tests
         run: python -m pytest tests/
+      - name: Stop the coverage process
+        # Stopping the coverage process allows the code coverage to be written to disk
+        run: docker exec live_data_server_livedata_1 /bin/bash -c "pkill coverage"
+      - name: Copy code coverage out of docker container
+        run: docker cp live_data_server_livedata_1:/var/www/livedata/app /tmp/
+      - name: Combine and show code coverage
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          cd /tmp/app
+          coverage combine
+          coverage xml
+          cp coverage.xml $OLDPWD
+          coverage report
+      - name: Bring down docker containers completely now
+        # This will completely remove the containers
+        run: docker-compose down
+      - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/Dockerfile.coverage b/Dockerfile.coverage
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35628f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile.coverage
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+FROM continuumio/miniconda3:23.10.0-1
+
+COPY environment.yml .
+RUN conda env create
+
+WORKDIR /var/www/livedata
+
+COPY docker-entrypoint-coverage.sh /usr/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh
+
+COPY src/live_data_server app
+RUN mkdir ./static
+
+WORKDIR /var/www/livedata/app
+
+RUN echo "[run]\nsource=live_data_server,plots\nparallel=True\nrelative_files=True" > /var/www/livedata/app/.coveragerc
+
+RUN chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh
+ENTRYPOINT ["conda", "run", "--no-capture-output", "-n", "livedata", "/usr/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/config/docker-compose.coverage.yml b/config/docker-compose.coverage.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9311687
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/docker-compose.coverage.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+services:
+
+  nginx:
+    image: nginx:1.21.1
+    ports:
+      - "80:80"
+      - "443:443"
+    volumes:
+      - web-static:/var/www/livedata/static
+      - ./config/nginx/envlocal.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf
+    depends_on:
+      livedata:
+        condition: service_healthy
+
+  livedata:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.coverage
+      network: host
+    environment:
+      APP_DEBUG: 1  # 0 for False, otherwise will evaluate to True
+      DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME: ${DATABASE_USER}
+      DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD: ${DATABASE_PASS}
+      DATABASE_NAME: ${DATABASE_NAME}
+      DATABASE_USER: ${DATABASE_USER}
+      DATABASE_PASS: ${DATABASE_PASS}
+      DATABASE_HOST: ${DATABASE_HOST}
+      DATABASE_PORT: ${DATABASE_PORT}
+      LIVE_PLOT_SECRET_KEY: ${LIVE_PLOT_SECRET_KEY}
+    command: /usr/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh
+    volumes:
+      - web-static:/var/www/livedata/static
+    healthcheck:
+      test: wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://localhost:8000/admin || exit 1
+      interval: 60s
+      retries: 5
+      start_period: 20s
+      timeout: 10s
+    ports:
+      - "8000:8000"
+    depends_on:
+      db:
+        condition: service_healthy
+
+  db:
+    # do not upgrade to version > 9.6.23 unless you also upgrade livedata image
+    image: postgres:9.6.23
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_DB: ${DATABASE_NAME}
+      POSTGRES_USER: ${DATABASE_USER}
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DATABASE_PASS}
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U ${DATABASE_USER} -d ${DATABASE_NAME}"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 5
+    ports:
+      - "${DATABASE_PORT}:${DATABASE_PORT}"
+
+volumes:
+  web-static:
diff --git a/docker-entrypoint-coverage.sh b/docker-entrypoint-coverage.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..eeca130
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-entrypoint-coverage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# wait for database
+until PGPASSWORD=${DATABASE_PASS} psql -h "${DATABASE_HOST}" -U "${DATABASE_USER}" -d "${DATABASE_NAME}" -c '\q'; do
+  >&2 echo "Postgres is unavailable - sleeping"
+  sleep 1
+done
+
+cd /var/www/livedata/app
+
+# collect static files
+python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
+
+# migrate django models
+python manage.py makemigrations --noinput
+python manage.py migrate --noinput
+
+# create superuser
+#echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('${DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME}', '${DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME}@example.com', '${DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD}')" | python manage.py shell
+
+# Create the webcache
+python manage.py createcachetable webcache
+python manage.py ensure_adminuser --username=${DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME} --email='workflow@example.com' --password=${DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD}
+
+# run application with code coverage
+coverage run -m gunicorn live_data_server.wsgi:application -b :8000
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 557e413..45b39e3 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ dependencies:
   - toml
   - requests<2.31 # can remove this condition once we allow newer versions of openssl
   - pre-commit
+  - coverage