diff --git a/base/.spynnaker.cfg b/base/.spynnaker.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ced41ee121f644b554d090843c0d4b0077b03341
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/.spynnaker.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[Machine]
+spalloc_server = https://spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk/spalloc/
+
+[Java]
+use_java = True
diff --git a/base/Dockerfile b/base/Dockerfile
index d36f8554d5125ab20a7b5051136d1205c8939267..3c429dc9e2647b569a22863924e29c8619bda4c5 100644
--- a/base/Dockerfile
+++ b/base/Dockerfile
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ RUN fix-permissions /opt/app-root/ && \
 COPY base/passwd.template /tmp/passwd.template
 COPY base/group.template /tmp/group.template
 COPY base/start-notebook.sh /opt/app-root/etc/
+COPY base/.spynnaker.cfg /opt/app-root/src/
 RUN chmod +x /opt/app-root/etc/start-notebook.sh
 
 WORKDIR /opt/app-root/src/