diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d93449e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+.git
+.next
+.idea
+.env
+node_modules
+# dist
+
+services
+modules
+utils
diff --git a/.nowignore b/.nowignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8502a2ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.nowignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+utils
+scripts
+test
+src
diff --git a/utils/Sync/requirements.txt b/utils/Sync/requirements.txt
index fd8dfc11..31487c6d 100644
--- a/utils/Sync/requirements.txt
+++ b/utils/Sync/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pymongo==3.3.0
 PyPDF2==1.26.0
 python-frontmatter==0.3.1
 PyYAML==5.1
-requests==2.10.0
+requests==2.20.0
 six==1.10.0
 smartcrop==0.1
 toml==0.9.2