diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-push.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-push.yml
index 7577789..0dab73b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-push.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-push.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 name: Build and push docker image
 
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
+  release:
+    types: 
+      - published
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
   build-and-push:
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: install poetry
       run: |
         python -m pip install --no-cache-dir poetry==1.8 supervisor
+        poetry self add "poetry-dynamic-versioning[plugin]"
 
     - name: set up docker
       run: |
@@ -39,9 +41,10 @@ jobs:
       run: make build-wheel
 
     - name: Build and push Docker image
-      uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
+      uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
       with:
         context: .
         push: true
         tags: |
+          ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}:${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
           ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}:latest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/conventional-commits.yml b/.github/workflows/conventional-commits.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ecc0d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/conventional-commits.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+name: Ensure all PRs have conventional commit titles
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - edited
+      - opened
+      - synchronize
+      - reopened
+
+jobs:
+  conventional_commit_title:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: chanzuckerberg/github-actions/.github/actions/conventional-commits@main
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f61cc89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: Release Please
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: Run release-please
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+    - name: Run release-please
+      uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v3
+      with:
+        release-type: python
+        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        bump-minor-pre-major: true
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diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 12ac4c3..85e1459 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ RUN apt update && \
 
 COPY requirements.txt .
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
-COPY dist/platformics-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl /tmp/platformics-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
-RUN cd /tmp/ && pip install platformics-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl && rm -rf /tmp/*.whl
+COPY dist /tmp/dist
+RUN cd /tmp/dist && pip install *.whl && rm -rf /tmp/*.whl
 
 RUN mkdir -p /app
 WORKDIR /app
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bb36e2d..18f3d23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ The libraries and tools that make Platformics work:
 ## Roadmap
 - [ ] Plugin hooks to add business logic to generated GQL resolvers
 - [ ] Support arbitrary class inheritance hierarchies
+- [ ] Package and publish to PyPI
 
 ## How to set up your own platformics API
 1. Copy the test_app boilerplate code to your own repository.
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@ The libraries and tools that make Platformics work:
 4. Browse to http://localhost:9009/graphql to interact with your api!
 5. Run `make token` to generate an authorization token that you can use to interact with the API. The `make` target copies the necessary headers to the system clipboard. Paste the token into the `headers` section at the bottom of the GraphQL explorer API
 
+## Versioning platformics
+Right now, platformics is used in downstream applications by using the platformics image as the base Docker image. To select a version of platformics, add the appropriate version tags to the docker image.
+
 ## Iterating on your schema
 1. Make changes to `schema/schema.yml`
 2. Run `make codegen` to re-run code gen and restart the API service
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b6bb969..54b18d7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "platformics"
-version = "0.1.0"
+# placeholder version that will be replace by poetry-dynamic-versioning
+version = "0.0.0"
 description = "Platformics bio entities framework"
 authors = ["CZI Infectious Disease Team <help@czid.org>"]
 license = "MIT License"
@@ -51,8 +52,12 @@ sqlalchemy_utils = "^0.41.1"
 strawberry-graphql = "^0.217.0"
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["poetry-core"]
-build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
+requires = ["poetry-core", "poetry-dynamic-versioning>=1.0.0,<2.0.0"]
+# a wrapper for poetry.core.masonry.api
+build-backend = "poetry_dynamic_versioning.backend"
+
+[tool.poetry-dynamic-versioning]
+enable = true
 
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 120