diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 55aefe0669..d173eca22f 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -540,9 +540,14 @@ services:
   # ******************
   # Postgres used by Feature Flag service
   ffs_postgres:
-    image: postgres:16.1
+    image: ${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_VERSION}-ffs_postgres
     container_name: postgres
     user: postgres
+    build:
+      context: ./
+      dockerfile: ./src/ffs_postgres/Dockerfile
+      cache_from:
+        - ${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_VERSION}-ffs_postgres
     deploy:
       resources:
         limits:
diff --git a/src/featureflagservice/priv/repo/migrations/20220524172636_create_featureflags.exs b/src/featureflagservice/priv/repo/migrations/20220524172636_create_featureflags.exs
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fd816fbfe..0000000000
--- a/src/featureflagservice/priv/repo/migrations/20220524172636_create_featureflags.exs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-defmodule Featureflagservice.Repo.Migrations.CreateFeatureflags do
-  use Ecto.Migration
-
-  def change do
-    create table(:featureflags) do
-      add :name, :string
-      add :description, :string
-      add :enabled, :float, default: 0.0, null: false
-
-      timestamps()
-    end
-
-    create unique_index(:featureflags, [:name])
-
-    execute(&execute_up/0, &execute_down/0)
-  end
-
-  defp execute_up do
-    repo().insert(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{
-      name: "productCatalogFailure",
-      description: "Fail product catalog service on a specific product",
-      enabled: 0.0
-    })
-
-    repo().insert(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{
-      name: "recommendationCache",
-      description: "Cache recommendations",
-      enabled: 0.0
-    })
-
-    repo().insert(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{
-      name: "adServiceFailure",
-      description: "Fail ad service requests sporadically",
-      enabled: 0.0
-    })
-
-    repo().insert(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{
-      name: "cartServiceFailure",
-      description: "Fail cart service requests sporadically",
-      enabled: 0.0
-    })
-  end
-
-  defp execute_down do
-    repo().delete(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{name: "productCatalogFailure"})
-    repo().delete(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{name: "recommendationCache"})
-    repo().delete(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{name: "adServiceFailure"})
-    repo().delete(%Featureflagservice.FeatureFlags.FeatureFlag{name: "cartServiceFailure"})
-  end
-end
diff --git a/src/featureflagservice/rel/overlays/bin/server b/src/featureflagservice/rel/overlays/bin/server
index aa36204cb2..5f5e409674 100755
--- a/src/featureflagservice/rel/overlays/bin/server
+++ b/src/featureflagservice/rel/overlays/bin/server
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@
 
 cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$0")"
 
-./featureflagservice eval Featureflagservice.Release.migrate || { echo "Database setup or migrations failed."; exit 1; }
-
 PHX_SERVER=true exec ./featureflagservice start
diff --git a/src/ffs_postgres/Dockerfile b/src/ffs_postgres/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8694e54392
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ffs_postgres/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+FROM postgres:16.1
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY ./src/ffs_postgres/init.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
+COPY ./src/ffs_postgres/dump.sql ./dump.sql
diff --git a/src/ffs_postgres/dump.sql b/src/ffs_postgres/dump.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71bf31d5de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ffs_postgres/dump.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+--
+-- PostgreSQL database dump
+--
+
+-- Dumped from database version 16.1 (Debian 16.1-1.pgdg120+1)
+-- Dumped by pg_dump version 16.1
+
+SET statement_timeout = 0;
+SET lock_timeout = 0;
+SET idle_in_transaction_session_timeout = 0;
+SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
+SET standard_conforming_strings = on;
+SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
+SET check_function_bodies = false;
+SET xmloption = content;
+SET client_min_messages = warning;
+SET row_security = off;
+
+SET default_tablespace = '';
+
+SET default_table_access_method = heap;
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+CREATE TABLE public.featureflags (
+    id bigint NOT NULL,
+    name character varying(255),
+    description character varying(255),
+    enabled double precision DEFAULT 0.0 NOT NULL,
+    inserted_at timestamp(0) without time zone NOT NULL,
+    updated_at timestamp(0) without time zone NOT NULL
+);
+
+
+ALTER TABLE public.featureflags OWNER TO ffs;
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+CREATE SEQUENCE public.featureflags_id_seq
+    START WITH 1
+    INCREMENT BY 1
+    NO MINVALUE
+    NO MAXVALUE
+    CACHE 1;
+
+
+ALTER SEQUENCE public.featureflags_id_seq OWNER TO ffs;
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE OWNED BY; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+ALTER SEQUENCE public.featureflags_id_seq OWNED BY public.featureflags.id;
+
+
+ALTER TABLE public.schema_migrations OWNER TO ffs;
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags id; Type: DEFAULT; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+ALTER TABLE ONLY public.featureflags ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nextval('public.featureflags_id_seq'::regclass);
+
+
+--
+-- Data for Name: featureflags; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+COPY public.featureflags (id, name, description, enabled, inserted_at, updated_at) FROM stdin;
+1	productCatalogFailure	Fail product catalog service on a specific product	0	2024-01-07 20:06:29	2024-01-07 20:06:29
+2	recommendationCache	Cache recommendations	0	2024-01-07 20:06:29	2024-01-07 20:06:29
+3	adServiceFailure	Fail ad service requests sporadically	0	2024-01-07 20:06:29	2024-01-07 20:06:29
+4	cartServiceFailure	Fail cart service requests sporadically	0	2024-01-07 20:06:29	2024-01-07 20:06:29
+\.
+
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+SELECT pg_catalog.setval('public.featureflags_id_seq', 4, true);
+
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags featureflags_pkey; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+ALTER TABLE ONLY public.featureflags
+    ADD CONSTRAINT featureflags_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id);
+
+
+--
+-- Name: featureflags_name_index; Type: INDEX; Schema: public; Owner: ffs
+--
+
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX featureflags_name_index ON public.featureflags USING btree (name);
+
+
+--
+-- PostgreSQL database dump complete
+--
+
diff --git a/src/ffs_postgres/init.sh b/src/ffs_postgres/init.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..23f1ecbafa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ffs_postgres/init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+psql -U $POSTGRES_USER -d $POSTGRES_DB -a -f /app/dump.sql
+