diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7135c1b3..7a1393de 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ externals/
 .vagrant
 api/docs/api-docs.html
 *.code-workspace
+.vscode
+.venv
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dce1918f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+rtyaml
+email_validator>=1.0.0
+exclusiveprocess
+flask
+dnspython
+python-dateutil
+expiringdict
+gunicorn
+qrcode[pil]
+pyotp
+idna>=2.0.0
+cryptography==37.0.2
+psutil
+postfix-mta-sts-resolver
+b2sdk
+boto3
diff --git a/ruff.toml b/ruff.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5e630384
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ruff.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+exclude = ["tools/mail.py", "tools/readable_bash.py"]
+
+[lint]
+ignore = ["E701", "E401", "E722", "E741", "E402"]