diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8123199333a12ca68d66bce1657c4eea75064dfc..523a940d85d2ce95b8b2dc3f8166a791b718a3e8 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ ARG FROM_IMAGE=usgs/centos:8
 FROM ${FROM_IMAGE}
 LABEL maintainer="Jeremy Fee <jmfee@usgs.gov>"
 
-# install conda
+# set environment variables
 ENV PATH /conda/bin:$PATH
 ENV LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'
 ENV LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
 
+# install conda
 RUN echo 'export PATH=/conda/bin:$PATH' > /etc/profile.d/conda.sh \
     && curl \
     https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh \
diff --git a/docker-entrypoint.sh b/docker-entrypoint.sh
index 008ff9a30340c3781870ad3f8bbba1889553deef..d4287ae6d74a1b007b645b81d7684387198bd815 100755
--- a/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 # Environment variable to determine whether to start webservice
 export WEBSERVICE=${WEBSERVICE:-false}
+
 # add geomagio to notebook path
 export PYTHONPATH=/geomag-algorithms
 
@@ -14,5 +15,6 @@ if [ $WEBSERVICE = 'false' ]; then
         --port=8000
 
 else
+# run gunicorn server for web service
     exec pipenv run gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 -w 4 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker geomagio.api.app:app
 fi