diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f93bb9a..89ca0b2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ COPY ./dev-requirements.txt /app/dev-requirements.txt
 # install the base set of libraries if they're not present.
 # NOTE: please update the README to include any changes.
 RUN apk --no-cache update \
-    && apk add bash dumb-init gcc libstdc++ libffi-dev make mysql-dev musl-dev ncurses-dev openssl-dev g++ \
+    && apk add bash dumb-init gcc libstdc++ libffi-dev make mysql-dev musl-dev ncurses-dev openssl-dev g++ postgresql-dev \
     && pip install --upgrade pip \
     && pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt \
     && pip install --upgrade --no-cache-dir -r dev-requirements.txt \
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 991a24f..aca9a34 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ futures==3.2
 soupsieve==1.9.5
 umemcache==1.6.3
 google-cloud-spanner==1.18.0
+psycopg2==2.8.6
 https://github.com/mozilla-services/tokenserver/archive/bf5f232ed78fb4eb89909ec5be40f135945aa514.zip
 https://github.com/mozilla-services/server-syncstorage/archive/d370a488155adeb80ee6f1bc016a4aa9d009f181.zip