diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..395b16e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+.circleci
+.git
+.github
+.gitignore
+.idea
+.vscode
+
+ci
+target
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 088ba6ba..1bdce877 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ Cargo.lock
 
 # These are backup files generated by rustfmt
 **/*.rs.bk
+config.yml
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..178dc986
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# BUILD IMAGE ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+FROM rust:1.67.0-slim-bullseye AS builder
+
+# Using backports for go 1.19
+RUN echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main' \
+    >> /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+# Dependecies for publishing documentation and building waku-bindings.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq \
+    git clang \
+    golang-src/bullseye-backports \
+    golang-doc/bullseye-backports \
+    golang/bullseye-backports
+
+WORKDIR /nomos
+COPY . . 
+
+RUN cargo build --release -p mockpool-node
+
+# NODE IMAGE ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+FROM bitnami/minideb:latest
+
+LABEL maintainer="augustinas@status.im"
+LABEL source="https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-research"
+LABEL description="Nomos node image"
+
+# nomos default ports
+EXPOSE 3000 8080 9000 60000	
+
+COPY --from=builder /nomos/target/release/mockpool-node /usr/bin/nomos-node
+COPY config.yml.example /etc/nomos/config.yml
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["nomos-node"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87794f57..aa138f12 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,17 @@
 # nomos-research
 Nomos blockchain node mvp
+
+## Docker
+
+To build and run a docker container with nomos node run:
+
+```bash
+docker build -t nomos .
+docker run nomos /etc/nomos/config.yml
+```
+
+To run a node with a different configuration run:
+
+```bash
+docker run -v /path/to/config.yml:/etc/nomos/config.yml nomos /etc/nomos/config.yml
+```
diff --git a/config.yml.example b/config.yml.example
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..99001893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.yml.example
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+log:
+  backend: "Stdout"
+  format: "Json"
+  level: "debug"
+network:
+  backend:
+    host: 0.0.0.0
+    port: 3000
+    log_level: "fatal"
+    nodeKey: null
+    discV5BootstrapNodes: []
+    initial_peers: []
+http:
+  backend:
+    address: 0.0.0.0:8080
+    cors_origins: []