diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61aaac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+FROM --platform=linux/amd64 python:3.8-slim
+
+# Environment variables
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    # dependencies for building Python packages && cleaning up unused files
+    && apt-get install -y build-essential \
+    libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+
+# Python dependencies
+RUN pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
+
+WORKDIR /app/
+
+COPY ./ ./
+
+RUN pip install -e '.[dev,deepsparse,vllm]'
diff --git a/tests/unit/backend/test_vllm.py b/tests/unit/backend/test_vllm.py
index de432f6..148c37c 100644
--- a/tests/unit/backend/test_vllm.py
+++ b/tests/unit/backend/test_vllm.py
@@ -7,16 +7,18 @@
 
 import importlib
 import sys
-from typing import Dict
+from typing import Dict, List
 
 import pytest
 
 from guidellm.backend import Backend
+from guidellm.config import reload_settings
+from guidellm.core import TextGenerationRequest
 
-pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
-    sys.platform != "linux",
-    reason="Unsupported Platform. Try using Linux or WSL instead.",
-)
+# pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+#     sys.platform != "linux",
+#     reason="Unsupported Platform. Try using Linux or WSL instead.",
+# )
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ def backend_class():
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def mock_vllm_llm(mocker):
     module = importlib.import_module("vllm")
-    llm = module.LLM(
+    llm = getattr(module, "LLM")(
         model="facebook/opt-125m",
         max_num_batched_tokens=4096,
         tensor_parallel_size=1,
@@ -65,3 +67,67 @@ def test_backend_creation(create_payload: Dict, backend_class):
             if (custom_model := create_payload.get("model"))
             else backend.default_model
         )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.smoke()
+def test_backend_model_from_env(mocker, backend_class):
+    mocker.patch.dict(
+        "os.environ",
+        {"GUIDELLM__LLM_MODEL": "test_backend_model_from_env"},
+    )
+
+    reload_settings()
+
+    backends = [Backend.create("vllm"), backend_class()]
+
+    for backend in backends:
+        assert backend.model == "test_backend_model_from_env"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.smoke()
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "text_generation_request_create_payload",
+    [
+        {"prompt": "Test prompt"},
+        {"prompt": "Test prompt", "output_token_count": 20},
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_make_request(
+    text_generation_request_create_payload: Dict, backend_class
+):
+    backend = backend_class()
+
+    output_tokens: List[str] = []
+    async for response in backend.make_request(
+        request=TextGenerationRequest(**text_generation_request_create_payload)
+    ):
+        if response.add_token:
+            output_tokens.append(response.add_token)
+    assert "".join(output_tokens) == "".join(
+        generation.text for generation in backend.pipeline._generations
+    )
+
+    if max_tokens := text_generation_request_create_payload.get("output_token_count"):
+        assert len(backend.pipeline._generations) == max_tokens
+
+
+@pytest.mark.smoke()
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("text_generation_request_create_payload", "error"),
+    [
+        ({"prompt": "Test prompt"}, ValueError),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio()
+async def test_make_request_invalid_request_payload(
+    text_generation_request_create_payload: Dict, error, backend_class
+):
+    backend = backend_class()
+    with pytest.raises(error):
+        [
+            respnose
+            async for respnose in backend.make_request(
+                request=TextGenerationRequest(**text_generation_request_create_payload)
+            )
+        ]