diff --git a/docs/source/running-with-docker.rst b/docs/source/running-with-docker.rst
index a9fd3f88d..6f0433f38 100644
--- a/docs/source/running-with-docker.rst
+++ b/docs/source/running-with-docker.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The basics
 
 The official pygeoapi Docker image will start a pygeoapi Docker container using Gunicorn on internal port 80.
 
-Either ``IMAGE`` can be called with the ``docker`` command, ``geopython/pygeoapi`` from DockerHub or ``ghcr.io/geophython/pygeoapi`` from the GitHub Container Registry. Examples below use ``geopython/pygeoapi``. 
+Either ``IMAGE`` can be called with the ``docker`` command, ``geopython/pygeoapi`` from DockerHub or ``ghcr.io/geopython/pygeoapi`` from the GitHub Container Registry. Examples below use ``geopython/pygeoapi``. 
 
 To run with the default built-in configuration and data:
 
@@ -103,6 +103,32 @@ Below is a corresponding ``docker-compose`` approach:
 
 A corresponding example can be found in https://github.com/geopython/demo.pygeoapi.io/tree/master/services/pygeoapi_master
 
+Deploying with Starlette
+------------------------
+
+By default the ``pygeoapi`` Docker image will run using ``Flask``.  If you need to run using a
+different framework, you can set the ``WSGI_APP_FRAMEWORK`` and ``WSGI_WORKER_CLASS`` environment variables.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   docker run -p 5000:80 -e WSGI_APP_FRAMEWORK='pygeoapi.starlette_app:APP' -e WSGI_WORKER_CLASS='uvicorn.workers.UvicornH11Worker' -it geopython/pygeoapi
+
+Below is a corresponding ``docker-compose`` approach:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+   version: "3"
+   services:
+     pygeoapi:
+       image: geopython/pygeoapi:latest
+       ports:
+         - "5000:80"
+       environment:
+        - WSGI_APP_FRAMEWORK=pygeoapi.starlette_app:APP
+        - WSGI_WORKER_CLASS=uvicorn.workers.UvicornH11Worker
+
+A corresponding example can be found in the pygeoapi examples.
+
 Summary
 -------
 
diff --git a/docs/source/running.rst b/docs/source/running.rst
index 3533d1ba8..8ea173f01 100644
--- a/docs/source/running.rst
+++ b/docs/source/running.rst
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ It is simple to run using the following command:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-   gunicorn pygeoapi.starlette_app:app -w 4 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker
+   gunicorn pygeoapi.starlette_app:APP -w 4 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornH11Worker
 
 .. note::
    Uvicorn is as easy to install as ``pip3 install uvicorn``