diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 688e34db..354c1aad 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ blockbook
 notes.txt
 debug
 .vscode
+docker/blockbook
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..681ee320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# initialize from the image
+
+FROM debian:9
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential git wget pkg-config lxc-dev libzmq3-dev libgflags-dev libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblz4-dev
+
+ENV GOLANG_VERSION=go1.9.2.linux-amd64
+ENV GOPATH=/go
+
+# install and configure go
+RUN cd /opt && wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/$GOLANG_VERSION.tar.gz && tar xf $GOLANG_VERSION.tar.gz
+RUN ln -s /opt/go/bin/go /usr/bin/go
+RUN mkdir -p $GOPATH
+RUN echo -n "GO version: " && go version
+RUN echo -n "GOPATH: " && echo $GOPATH
+
+# install rocksdb
+RUN cd /opt && git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
+RUN cd /opt/rocksdb && CFLAGS=-fPIC CXXFLAGS=-fPIC make static_lib
+
+# install gorocksdb
+RUN CGO_CFLAGS="-I/opt/rocksdb/include" CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/opt/rocksdb -lrocksdb -lstdc++ -lm -lz -lbz2 -lsnappy -llz4" go get github.com/tecbot/gorocksdb
+
+RUN go get github.com/golang/glog
+RUN go get github.com/graarh/golang-socketio
+RUN go get github.com/btcsuite/btcd
+RUN go get github.com/gorilla/handlers
+RUN go get github.com/bsm/go-vlq
+RUN go get github.com/gorilla/handlers
+RUN go get github.com/gorilla/mux
+RUN go get github.com/pebbe/zmq4
+RUN go get github.com/pkg/profile
+
+RUN cd $GOPATH/src && git clone https://github.com/jpochyla/blockbook.git
+RUN cd $GOPATH/src/blockbook && go build
diff --git a/docker/build.sh b/docker/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2bab2016
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+cd `dirname $0`
+
+docker build -t blockbook-build .
+docker run -t -v $(pwd):/out blockbook-build /bin/cp /go/src/blockbook/blockbook /out/
+