diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
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index 00000000..21f32ac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.git
+.*.swp
+.tags*
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+FROM ubuntu:trusty
+
+ENV MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/cube_development \
+    PORT=1080 \
+    EVALUATOR_AUTHENTICATOR=allow_all \
+    COLLECTOR_AUTHENTICATOR=allow_all
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get -qq -y install \
+  python \
+  python-bcrypt \
+  npm \
+  nodejs \
+  nodejs-legacy \
+  > /dev/null \
+  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /app
+ADD     ./    /app
+
+RUN npm install && npm update
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["node"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,3 +3,22 @@
 **Cube** is a system for collecting timestamped events and deriving metrics. By collecting events rather than metrics, Cube lets you compute aggregate statistics *post hoc*. It also enables richer analysis, such as quantiles and histograms of arbitrary event sets. Cube is built on [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org) and available under the [Apache License](/square/cube/blob/master/LICENSE).
 
 Want to learn more? [See the wiki.](https://github.com/square/cube/wiki)
+
+## Docker
+
+This branch supports building cube into a docker container. The dependencies are included as parts of them are not available in npm repositories anymore. This allows to create a container with the command:
+
+`docker build -t cube .`
+
+The image can be configured by changing the default values of those environment variables:
+
+```bash
+MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/cube_development
+PORT=1080
+EVALUATOR_AUTHENTICATOR=allow_all
+COLLECTOR_AUTHENTICATOR=allow_all
+```
+
+Finally the container can be started for example with:
+
+`docker run -p 1080:1080 -e MONGODB_URI=mongodb://mongodb:27017/cube cube bin/collector`