diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 24edb7f6..2b9cef78 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ yq
 **/.env-devel
 **/.stack.*.yml
 **/.stack.*.yaml
-./docker-compose.yml
+docker-compose.yml
 stack.yml
 stack_with_prefix.yml
 docker-compose.simcore.yml
diff --git a/.python-version b/.python-version
index c8cfe395..2c073331 100644
--- a/.python-version
+++ b/.python-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.10
+3.11
diff --git a/scripts/deployments/start_simcore_locally.bash b/scripts/deployments/start_simcore_locally.bash
index 24ac8ae8..a69b47f4 100755
--- a/scripts/deployments/start_simcore_locally.bash
+++ b/scripts/deployments/start_simcore_locally.bash
@@ -131,8 +131,12 @@ scripts/deployments/compose_stack_yml.bash
 log_info "Adding prefix $PREFIX_STACK_NAME to all services..."
 ./yq "with(.services; with_entries(.key |= \"${PREFIX_STACK_NAME}_\" + .))" stack.yml > stack_with_prefix.yml
 log_info "Deleting the $SIMCORE_STACK_NAME docker stack if present"
-docker stack rm "$SIMCORE_STACK_NAME" || true
-sleep 3 # Wait for stack to be deleted, the networks often take a while, not waiting might lead to docker network creation issues
+# Wait for stack to be deleted, the networks often take a while, not waiting might lead to docker network creation issues
+# shellcheck disable=2015
+docker stack rm "$SIMCORE_STACK_NAME" && sleep 3 || true
+log_info "Copying dask-certificates into place"
+mkdir -p "$repo_basedir"/services/simcore/dask-sidecar/.dask-certificates
+cp -r "$(dirname "${repo_config}")"/assets/dask-certificates/*.pem "$repo_basedir"/services/simcore/dask-sidecar/.dask-certificates
 log_info "Deploying: Running docker stack deploy for stack $SIMCORE_STACK_NAME..."
 
 # Retry logic via https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/82610
@@ -142,4 +146,5 @@ for i in {1..5}; do docker stack deploy -c stack_with_prefix.yml "$SIMCORE_STACK
 
 ############
 # CLEANUP
+# shellcheck disable=1073
 rm -r "${repo_basedir:?}"/"${tempdirname:?}" 2>/dev/null || true
diff --git a/services/simcore/.gitignore b/services/simcore/.gitignore
index 8b4d445d..a6cefdd5 100644
--- a/services/simcore/.gitignore
+++ b/services/simcore/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 .env
 docker-compose.deploy.yml
+dask-sidecar/**
diff --git a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.local.yml b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.local.yml
index 597ba5e3..8b27ce7d 100644
--- a/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.local.yml
+++ b/services/simcore/docker-compose.deploy.local.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-version: "3.8"
 services:
   autoscaling:
     deploy:
@@ -138,3 +137,8 @@ services:
   clusters-keeper:
     deploy:
       replicas: 0
+secrets:
+  rootca.crt:
+    external: true
+  storageca.crt:
+    external: true