diff --git a/dev-env/caddy/Caddyfile b/dev-env/caddy/Caddyfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70e6904d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-env/caddy/Caddyfile
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# This configuration is intended to be used with Caddy, a very small high perf proxy.
+# It will serve the application containers Payara Admin GUI via HTTP instead of HTTPS,
+# avoiding the trouble of self signed certificates for local development.
+
+:4848 {
+	reverse_proxy https://dataverse:4848 {
+		transport http {
+			tls_insecure_skip_verify
+		}
+		header_down Location "^https://" "http://"
+	}
+}
diff --git a/dev-env/docker-compose-dev.yml b/dev-env/docker-compose-dev.yml
index 4f5184c8b..f0c82bea6 100644
--- a/dev-env/docker-compose-dev.yml
+++ b/dev-env/docker-compose-dev.yml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ services:
     restart: on-failure
     user: payara
     environment:
+      SKIP_DEPLOY: 1
       dataverse_files_storage__driver__id: s3
       DATAVERSE_DB_HOST: postgres
       DATAVERSE_DB_PASSWORD: secret
@@ -77,7 +78,10 @@ services:
     # This is necessary because the dev_nginx proxy is placed on top of the Dataverse service, making those URLs unreachable unless this port is exposed. 
     # This workaround is only necessary and intended for the local dev environment and will not be used in the remote environment, where we use a production DNS.
     ports:
-      - '8080:8080'
+      - "8080:8080" # HTTP (Dataverse Application)
+      - "4949:4848" # HTTPS (Payara Admin Console)
+      - "9009:9009" # JDWP
+      - "8686:8686" # JMX
     networks:
       - dataverse
     depends_on:
@@ -93,6 +97,24 @@ services:
     mem_reservation: 1024m
     privileged: false
 
+  # This proxy configuration is only intended to be used for development purposes!
+  # DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION! HIGH SECURITY RISK!
+  dev_proxy:
+    image: caddy:2-alpine
+    # The command below is enough to enable using the admin gui, but it will not rewrite location headers to HTTP.
+    # To achieve rewriting from https:// to http://, we need a simple configuration file
+    #command: ["caddy", "reverse-proxy", "-f", ":4848", "-t", "https://dataverse:4848", "--insecure"]
+    command: ["caddy", "run", "-c", "/Caddyfile"]
+    ports:
+      - "4848:4848" # Will expose Payara Admin Console (HTTPS) as HTTP
+    restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - ./caddy/Caddyfile:/Caddyfile:ro
+    depends_on:
+      - dev_dataverse
+    networks:
+      - dataverse
+
   dv_initializer:
     container_name: 'dv_initializer'
     image: gdcc/configbaker:unstable
diff --git a/dev-env/run-env.sh b/dev-env/run-env.sh
index f8014c429..f92232b77 100755
--- a/dev-env/run-env.sh
+++ b/dev-env/run-env.sh
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ echo "INFO - Removing current environment if exists..."
 ./rm-env.sh
 
 echo "INFO - Running docker containers..."
-docker compose -f "./docker-compose-dev.yml" up -d --build
+SKIP_DEPLOY=1 docker compose -f "./docker-compose-dev.yml" up -d --build