diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 25de40d..7d178f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
+- 2019-01-20 [Improvement] Make it easy to load custom settings for the local production install
 - 2019-01-16 [Improvement] Switch license from MIT to AGPL
 - 2019-01-04 [Bugfix] Fix xqueue consumer command
 - 2018-12-26 [Improvement] Upgrade nodejs to 5.5.1
diff --git a/deploy/local/templates/docker-compose.yml b/deploy/local/templates/docker-compose.yml
index 710167b..d1ad208 100644
--- a/deploy/local/templates/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/deploy/local/templates/docker-compose.yml
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ services:
     image: ${OPENEDX_DOCKER_IMAGE:-regis/openedx:hawthorn}
     environment:
       SERVICE_VARIANT: lms
+      SETTINGS: ${EDX_PLATFORM_SETTINGS:-tutor.production}
     restart: unless-stopped
     volumes:
       - ../env/openedx/settings/lms/:/openedx/edx-platform/lms/envs/tutor/
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ services:
     image: ${OPENEDX_DOCKER_IMAGE:-regis/openedx:hawthorn}
     environment:
       SERVICE_VARIANT: cms
+      SETTINGS: ${EDX_PLATFORM_SETTINGS:-tutor.production}
     restart: unless-stopped
     volumes:
       - ../env/openedx/settings/lms/:/openedx/edx-platform/lms/envs/tutor/
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@ services:
     image: ${OPENEDX_DOCKER_IMAGE:-regis/openedx:hawthorn}
     environment:
       SERVICE_VARIANT: lms
+      SETTINGS: ${EDX_PLATFORM_SETTINGS:-tutor.production}
       C_FORCE_ROOT: "1" # run celery tasks as root #nofear
     command: ./manage.py lms celery worker --loglevel=info --hostname=edx.lms.core.default.%%h --maxtasksperchild 100
     restart: unless-stopped
@@ -138,6 +141,7 @@ services:
     image: ${OPENEDX_DOCKER_IMAGE:-regis/openedx:hawthorn}
     environment:
       SERVICE_VARIANT: cms
+      SETTINGS: ${EDX_PLATFORM_SETTINGS:-tutor.production}
       C_FORCE_ROOT: "1" # run celery tasks as root #nofear
     command: ./manage.py cms celery worker --loglevel=info --hostname=edx.cms.core.default.%%h --maxtasksperchild 100
     restart: unless-stopped
diff --git a/docs/local.rst b/docs/local.rst
index b28a35a..04902be 100644
--- a/docs/local.rst
+++ b/docs/local.rst
@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@ After launching your platfom, the web UI will be available at `http://localhost:
 
 Among many other things, you'll be able to view the logs for each container, which is really useful.
 
+Loading different production settings for ``edx-platform``
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+The default settings module loaded by ``edx-platform`` is ``tutor.production``. The folders ``tutor/deploy/env/openedx/settings/lms`` and ``tutor/deploy/env/openedx/settings/cms`` are mounted as ``edx-platform/lms/envs/tutor`` and ``edx-platform/cms/envs/tutor`` inside the docker containers. Thus, to use your own settings, you must do two things:
+
+1. Copy your settings files for the lms and the cms to ``tutor/deploy/env/openedx/settings/lms/mysettings.py`` and ``tutor/deploy/env/openedx/settings/cms/mysettings.py``.
+2. Load your settings by adding ``EDX_PLATFORM_SETTINGS=tutor.mysettings`` to ``tutor/deploy/local/.env``.
+
+Of course, your settings should be compatible with the docker install. You can get some inspiration from the ``production.py`` settings modules generated by Tutor.
+
 Additional commands
 -------------------