diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e105ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+FROM ubuntu:bionic
+
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/django
+
+WORKDIR /opt/django
+
+COPY . /opt/django
+
+## for apt to be noninteractive
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN true
+
+## preesed tzdata, update package index, upgrade packages and install needed software
+RUN echo "tzdata tzdata/Areas select Europe" > /tmp/preseed.txt; \
+    echo "tzdata tzdata/Zones/Europe select Berlin" >> /tmp/preseed.txt; \
+    debconf-set-selections /tmp/preseed.txt && \
+    rm /etc/timezone | true && \
+    rm /etc/localtime | true && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y tzdata texlive-latex-extra
+
+RUN apt-get install -y python-pip
+
+## cleanup of files from setup
+RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
+
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+
+CMD make latexpdf && make epub
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index dd15102..bb6e207 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Compiling the source
     make latexpdf
     make epub
 
+You can compile with Docker instead
+
+::
+
+    docker build . -t django-deployment-book
+    docker run -v "$(pwd):/opt/django" --rm django-deployment-book
+
 After the above, the PDF should be in ``_build/latex`` and the epub in
 ``_build/epub``.