diff --git a/api/poetry.lock b/api/poetry.lock
index 79be4fe7b..bb093994f 100644
--- a/api/poetry.lock
+++ b/api/poetry.lock
@@ -824,6 +824,17 @@ gevent = ["gevent (>=1.4.0)"]
 setproctitle = ["setproctitle"]
 tornado = ["tornado (>=0.2)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "h11"
+version = "0.13.0"
+description = "A pure-Python, bring-your-own-I/O implementation of HTTP/1.1"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+typing-extensions = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hiredis"
 version = "2.0.0"
@@ -1811,6 +1822,23 @@ brotli = ["brotlipy (>=0.6.0)"]
 secure = ["pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "certifi", "ipaddress"]
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uvicorn"
+version = "0.14.0"
+description = "The lightning-fast ASGI server."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+asgiref = ">=3.3.4"
+click = ">=7"
+h11 = ">=0.8"
+typing-extensions = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+standard = ["websockets (>=9.1)", "httptools (>=0.2.0,<0.3.0)", "watchgod (>=0.6)", "python-dotenv (>=0.13)", "PyYAML (>=5.1)", "uvloop (>=0.14.0,!=0.15.0,!=0.15.1)", "colorama (>=0.4)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vine"
 version = "5.0.0"
@@ -1895,7 +1923,7 @@ testing = ["coverage (>=5.0.3)", "zope.event", "zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "522cae43525e9a65de8242b0d878770a7392e29af9f4f110749ffdd1671554b4"
+content-hash = "1db45836e587380a3ae2f051856ae6fc82fc87d94e2fa8a0798d0c57833434fd"
 
 [metadata.files]
 aiohttp = [
@@ -2302,6 +2330,10 @@ gunicorn = [
     {file = "gunicorn-20.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9dcc4547dbb1cb284accfb15ab5667a0e5d1881cc443e0677b4882a4067a807e"},
     {file = "gunicorn-20.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e0a968b5ba15f8a328fdfd7ab1fcb5af4470c28aaf7e55df02a99bc13138e6e8"},
 ]
+h11 = [
+    {file = "h11-0.13.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:8ddd78563b633ca55346c8cd41ec0af27d3c79931828beffb46ce70a379e7442"},
+    {file = "h11-0.13.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:70813c1135087a248a4d38cc0e1a0181ffab2188141a93eaf567940c3957ff06"},
+]
 hiredis = [
     {file = "hiredis-2.0.0-cp36-cp36m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:b4c8b0bc5841e578d5fb32a16e0c305359b987b850a06964bd5a62739d688048"},
     {file = "hiredis-2.0.0-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_i686.whl", hash = "sha256:0adea425b764a08270820531ec2218d0508f8ae15a448568109ffcae050fee26"},
@@ -2931,6 +2963,10 @@ urllib3 = [
     {file = "urllib3-1.26.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c4fdf4019605b6e5423637e01bc9fe4daef873709a7973e195ceba0a62bbc844"},
     {file = "urllib3-1.26.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:4987c65554f7a2dbf30c18fd48778ef124af6fab771a377103da0585e2336ece"},
 ]
+uvicorn = [
+    {file = "uvicorn-0.14.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2a76bb359171a504b3d1c853409af3adbfa5cef374a4a59e5881945a97a93eae"},
+    {file = "uvicorn-0.14.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:45ad7dfaaa7d55cab4cd1e85e03f27e9d60bc067ddc59db52a2b0aeca8870292"},
+]
 vine = [
     {file = "vine-5.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4c9dceab6f76ed92105027c49c823800dd33cacce13bdedc5b914e3514b7fb30"},
     {file = "vine-5.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7d3b1624a953da82ef63462013bbd271d3eb75751489f9807598e8f340bd637e"},
diff --git a/api/pyproject.toml b/api/pyproject.toml
index c2670f398..cab656b03 100644
--- a/api/pyproject.toml
+++ b/api/pyproject.toml
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ asgiref = "3.3.4" #1516
 ipython = "~=7.27.0"
 python-ldap = "~=3.3.0"
 django-auth-ldap = "~=3.0.0"
+uvicorn = "~=0.14.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 flake8 = "~=3.9.1"
diff --git a/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service b/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service
index 209896dd4..3fd851c9f 100644
--- a/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service
+++ b/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ User=funkwhale
 # adapt this depending on the path of your funkwhale installation
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/funkwhale/api
 EnvironmentFile=/srv/funkwhale/config/.env
-ExecStart=/srv/funkwhale/virtualenv/bin/celery -A funkwhale_api.taskapp beat -l INFO
+ExecStart=/srv/funkwhale/.local/bin/poetry run celery -A funkwhale_api.taskapp beat -l INFO
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/deploy/funkwhale-server.service b/deploy/funkwhale-server.service
index b531e596e..a996cf75c 100644
--- a/deploy/funkwhale-server.service
+++ b/deploy/funkwhale-server.service
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ User=funkwhale
 # adapt this depending on the path of your funkwhale installation
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/funkwhale/api
 EnvironmentFile=/srv/funkwhale/config/.env
-ExecStart=/srv/funkwhale/virtualenv/bin/gunicorn config.asgi:application -w ${FUNKWHALE_WEB_WORKERS} -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker -b ${FUNKWHALE_API_IP}:${FUNKWHALE_API_PORT}
+ExecStart=/srv/funkwhale/.local/bin/poetry run gunicorn config.asgi:application -w ${FUNKWHALE_WEB_WORKERS} -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker -b ${FUNKWHALE_API_IP}:${FUNKWHALE_API_PORT}
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/deploy/funkwhale-worker.service b/deploy/funkwhale-worker.service
index 934263bd6..2eff9b9d6 100644
--- a/deploy/funkwhale-worker.service
+++ b/deploy/funkwhale-worker.service
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ User=funkwhale
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/funkwhale/api
 Environment="CELERYD_CONCURRENCY=0"
 EnvironmentFile=/srv/funkwhale/config/.env
-ExecStart=/srv/funkwhale/virtualenv/bin/celery -A funkwhale_api.taskapp worker -l INFO --concurrency=${CELERYD_CONCURRENCY}
+ExecStart=/srv/funkwhale/.local/bin/poetry run celery -A funkwhale_api.taskapp worker -l INFO --concurrency=${CELERYD_CONCURRENCY}
 
 
 [Install]
diff --git a/api/requirements.apt b/deploy/requirements.apt
similarity index 53%
rename from api/requirements.apt
rename to deploy/requirements.apt
index 075b9ffdd..dac8938fa 100644
--- a/api/requirements.apt
+++ b/deploy/requirements.apt
@@ -9,3 +9,13 @@ python3-dev
 libldap2-dev
 libsasl2-dev
 make
+unzip
+zlib1g-dev
+libffi-dev
+libssl-dev
+libxml2-dev
+libxslt1-dev
+libjpeg-dev
+redis-server
+python3-venv
+git