diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..79b078d91caa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+FROM alpine:3.5
+
+# BCHOME is where your genesis.json, key.json and other files including state are stored.
+ENV BCHOME /basecoin
+
+# Create a basecoin user and group first so the IDs get set the same way, even
+# as the rest of this may change over time.
+RUN addgroup basecoin && \
+    adduser -S -G basecoin basecoin
+
+RUN mkdir -p $BCHOME && \
+    chown -R basecoin:basecoin $BCHOME
+WORKDIR $BCHOME
+
+# Expose the basecoin home directory as a volume since there's mutable state in there.
+VOLUME $BCHOME
+
+# jq and curl used for extracting `pub_key` from private validator while
+# deploying tendermint with Kubernetes. It is nice to have bash so the users
+# could execute bash commands.
+RUN apk add --no-cache bash curl jq
+
+COPY basecoin /usr/bin/basecoin
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["basecoin"]
+
+# By default you will get the basecoin with local MerkleEyes and in-proc Tendermint.
+CMD ["start", "--dir=${BCHOME}"]
diff --git a/Dockerfile.dev b/Dockerfile.dev
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ee6cdc6e2165
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile.dev
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+FROM golang:latest
+
+RUN mkdir -p /go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin
+WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin
+
+COPY Makefile /go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin/
+COPY glide.yaml /go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin/
+COPY glide.lock /go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin/
+
+RUN make get_vendor_deps
+
+COPY . /go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 89f9af72b554..32ec678624cd 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-.PHONY: all test get_deps
-
 all: test install
 
 NOVENDOR = go list github.com/tendermint/basecoin/... | grep -v /vendor/
@@ -24,3 +22,11 @@ get_vendor_deps:
 	go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
 	glide install
 
+build-docker:
+	docker run -it --rm -v "$(PWD):/go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin" -w "/go/src/github.com/tendermint/basecoin" -e "CGO_ENABLED=0" golang:alpine go build ./cmd/basecoin
+	docker build -t "tendermint/basecoin" .
+
+clean:
+	@rm -f ./basecoin
+
+.PHONY: all build install test get_deps update_deps get_vendor_deps build-docker clean