diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker.yml b/.github/workflows/docker.yml
index f2cf9b5..1abe3e5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker.yml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ jobs:
                   cache-to: type=gha,mode=max
                   outputs: |
                       type=registry,push-by-digest=true,name-canonical=true
+                      type=docker
 
     test:
         needs: build
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ jobs:
 
         steps:
             - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
             - name: Login to GitHub Container Registry
               uses: docker/login-action@v3
               with:
@@ -67,11 +69,16 @@ jobs:
                   username: ${{ github.actor }}
                   password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-            - name: Setup Python test environment
-              uses: mamba-org/setup-micromamba@v1
+            - name: Set up Python
+              uses: actions/setup-python@v5
               with:
-                  environment-file: environment.yml
-                  cache-environment: true
+                  python-version: '3.12'
+
+            - name: Install uv
+              run: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.1.43/uv-installer.sh | sh
+
+            - name: Install test requirements
+              run: uv pip install --system -r requirements.txt --no-deps
 
             - name: Run tests
               shell: bash -l {0}  # required to activate the conda environment
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 100d59b..0000000
--- a/environment.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
----
-name: aiidalab-ispg-docker-stack
-channels:
-    - conda-forge
-dependencies:
-    - docker-compose=1.29.2
-    - pip
-    - pytest=7.4.4
-    - python=3.11
-    - requests=2.31.0
-    - pip:
-          - pytest-docker==2.0.1
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53723c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+docker-compose~=1.29
+pytest~=7.4
+requests~=2.31
+pytest-docker~=2.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54e271e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# This file was autogenerated by uv via the following command:
+#    uv pip compile requirements.in
+attrs==23.2.0
+    # via
+    #   jsonschema
+    #   pytest-docker
+bcrypt==4.1.3
+    # via paramiko
+certifi==2024.2.2
+    # via requests
+cffi==1.16.0
+    # via
+    #   cryptography
+    #   pynacl
+charset-normalizer==3.3.2
+    # via requests
+cryptography==42.0.7
+    # via paramiko
+distro==1.9.0
+    # via docker-compose
+docker==7.0.0
+    # via docker-compose
+docker-compose==1.29.2
+    # via -r requirements.in
+dockerpty==0.4.1
+    # via docker-compose
+docopt==0.6.2
+    # via docker-compose
+idna==3.7
+    # via requests
+iniconfig==2.0.0
+    # via pytest
+jsonschema==3.2.0
+    # via docker-compose
+packaging==24.0
+    # via
+    #   docker
+    #   pytest
+paramiko==3.4.0
+    # via docker
+pluggy==1.5.0
+    # via pytest
+pycparser==2.22
+    # via cffi
+pynacl==1.5.0
+    # via paramiko
+pyrsistent==0.20.0
+    # via jsonschema
+pytest==7.4.4
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   pytest-docker
+pytest-docker==2.2.0
+    # via -r requirements.in
+python-dotenv==0.21.1
+    # via docker-compose
+pyyaml==5.4.1
+    # via docker-compose
+requests==2.31.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   docker
+    #   docker-compose
+setuptools==69.5.1
+    # via jsonschema
+six==1.16.0
+    # via
+    #   dockerpty
+    #   jsonschema
+    #   websocket-client
+texttable==1.7.0
+    # via docker-compose
+urllib3==2.2.1
+    # via
+    #   docker
+    #   requests
+websocket-client==0.59.0
+    # via docker-compose