diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index 1fa8baaf..058b775b 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [run]
+data_file = /tmp/.coverage
 branch = True
 omit = notesserver/settings*
        *wsgi.py
diff --git a/.pii_annotations.yml b/.pii_annotations.yml
index 683971ee..70d5db8b 100644
--- a/.pii_annotations.yml
+++ b/.pii_annotations.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 source_path: ./
-report_path: pii_report
+report_path: /tmp/pii_report
 safelist_path: .annotation_safe_list.yml
 coverage_target: 100.0
 annotations:
diff --git a/.travis/docker-compose-travis.yml b/.travis/docker-compose-travis.yml
index ad59a326..b70d9de0 100644
--- a/.travis/docker-compose-travis.yml
+++ b/.travis/docker-compose-travis.yml
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ services:
     image: elasticsearch:1.5.2
     container_name: es
   notes:
-    # Uncomment this line to use the official course-discovery base image
-    image: edxops/notes:latest
+    image: openedx/edx-notes-api:latest
 
     # Uncomment the next two lines to build from a local configuration repo
     # build: ../configuration/docker/build/discovery/
 
     container_name: edx_notes_api
     volumes:
-      - ..:/edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
+      - ..:/edx/app/notes
+      - ./edx_notes_api.yml:/edx/etc/edx_notes_api.yml
     command: tail -f /dev/null
     depends_on:
       - "db"
diff --git a/.travis/docker.mk b/.travis/docker.mk
index 194f79f5..5faf36bf 100644
--- a/.travis/docker.mk
+++ b/.travis/docker.mk
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ travis_start: ## Start containers stopped by `travis_stop`
 	docker-compose -f .travis/docker-compose-travis.yml start
 
 travis_test: ## Run tests on Docker containers, as on Travis CI
-	docker exec -e TERM=$(TERM) -e TOXENV=$(TOXENV) -it edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.travis/run_tests.sh
+	docker exec -e TERM=$(TERM) -e TOXENV=$(TOXENV) -it edx_notes_api /edx/app/notes/.travis/run_tests.sh
+	docker exec -it edx_notes_api env TERM=$(TERM) /edx/app/notes/.travis/run_tests.sh
 
 travis_pii_check: ## Run pii annotations checker on Docker containers, as on Travis CI
-	docker exec -e TERM=$(TERM) -e TOXENV=$(TOXENV) -it edx_notes_api /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh
+	docker exec -e TERM=$(TERM) -e TOXENV=$(TOXENV) -it edx_notes_api /edx/app/notes/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh
+	docker exec -it edx_notes_api env TERM=$(TERM) /edx/app/notes/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh
 
 travis_stop: ## Stop running containers created by `travis_up` without removing them
 	docker-compose -f .travis/docker-compose-travis.yml stop
diff --git a/.travis/edx_notes_api.yml b/.travis/edx_notes_api.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c5ea951
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis/edx_notes_api.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+DATABASES:
+  default:
+    ENGINE: "django.db.backends.mysql"
+    HOST: "db"
+    NAME: "edx_notes_api"
+    PASSWORD: "secret"
+    PORT: "3306"
+    USER: "notes001"
+ELASTICSEARCH_URL: "http://es:9200"
diff --git a/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh b/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh
index 38865a7e..72f27586 100755
--- a/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh
+++ b/.travis/run_pii_checker.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash -xe
-. /edx/app/edx_notes_api/venvs/edx_notes_api/bin/activate
 
 export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=notesserver.settings.test
 
-cd /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
+cd /edx/app/notes
 
-make pii_check
+PATH=/home/app/.local/bin:$PATH make pii_check
 
diff --git a/.travis/run_tests.sh b/.travis/run_tests.sh
index ce339950..3c492a64 100755
--- a/.travis/run_tests.sh
+++ b/.travis/run_tests.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash -xe
-. /edx/app/edx_notes_api/venvs/edx_notes_api/bin/activate
 
-cd /edx/app/edx_notes_api/edx_notes_api
+cd /edx/app/notes
 
-make validate
+PATH=/home/app/.local/bin:$PATH make validate
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 87a171fd..b31a205f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include .travis/docker.mk
 validate: test.requirements test
 
 test: clean
-	$(TOX)python -Wd -m pytest
+	$(TOX)python3 -Wd -m pytest
 
 pii_check: test.requirements pii_clean
 	code_annotations django_find_annotations --config_file .pii_annotations.yml \
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ clean:
 	coverage erase
 
 pii_clean:
-	rm -rf pii_report
-	mkdir -p pii_report
+	rm -rf /tmp/pii_report
+	mkdir -p /tmp/pii_report
 
 quality:
 	pep8 --config=.pep8 $(PACKAGES)
@@ -43,24 +43,24 @@ diff-quality:
 coverage: diff-coverage diff-quality
 
 create-index:
-	python manage.py rebuild_index
+	python3 manage.py rebuild_index
 
 migrate:
-	python manage.py migrate --noinput
+	python3 manage.py migrate --noinput
 
 static:  # provide the static target for devstack's tooling.
 	@echo "The notes service does not need staticfiles to be compiled. Skipping."
 
 requirements:
-	pip install -q -r requirements/base.txt --exists-action=w
+	pip install --user -q -r requirements/base.txt --exists-action=w
 
 test.requirements: requirements
-	pip install -q -r requirements/test.txt --exists-action=w
+	pip install --user -q -r requirements/test.txt --exists-action=w
 
 develop: test.requirements
 
 piptools: ## install pinned version of pip-compile and pip-sync
-	pip install -r requirements/pip-tools.txt
+	pip install --user -r requirements/pip-tools.txt
 
 upgrade: export CUSTOM_COMPILE_COMMAND=make upgrade
 upgrade: piptools ## update the requirements/*.txt files with the latest packages satisfying requirements/*.in
diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index 746c5d00..71a72ae4 100755
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 import os
 import sys