diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0684680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+HEAD
+.cache
+v*
+alias
+
+# For testing
+test/bak
+.urchin.log
+.urchin_stdout
+test/**/test_output
+
+node_modules/
+npm-debug.log
+
+.DS_Store
+current
+
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bb73f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+# Dockerized nvm development environment
+#
+# This Dockerfile is for building nvm development environment only,
+# not for any distribution/production usage.
+#
+# Please note that it'll use about 1.2 GB disk space and about 15 minutes to
+# build this image, it depends on your hardware.
+
+# Use Ubuntu Trusty Tahr as base image as we're using on Travis CI
+# I also tested with Ubuntu 16.04, should be good with it!
+From ubuntu:14.04
+MAINTAINER Peter Dave Hello <hsu@peterdavehello.org>
+
+# Prevent dialog during apt install
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+
+# Pick a Ubuntu apt mirror site for better speed
+# ref: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
+ENV UBUNTU_APT_SITE ubuntu.cs.utah.edu
+
+# Disable src package source
+RUN sed -i 's/^deb-src\ /\#deb-src\ /g' /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+# Replace origin apt pacakge site with the mirror site
+RUN sed -E -i "s/([a-z]+.)?archive.ubuntu.com/$UBUNTU_APT_SITE/g" /etc/apt/sources.list
+RUN sed -i "s/security.ubuntu.com/$UBUNTU_APT_SITE/g" /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+# Install apt packages
+RUN apt update         && \
+    apt upgrade -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"  && \
+    apt install -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"     \
+        coreutils             \
+        util-linux            \
+        bsdutils              \
+        file                  \
+        openssl               \
+        ca-certificates       \
+        ssh                   \
+        wget                  \
+        patch                 \
+        sudo                  \
+        htop                  \
+        dstat                 \
+        vim                   \
+        tmux                  \
+        curl                  \
+        git                   \
+        jq                    \
+        realpath              \
+        zsh                   \
+        ksh                   \
+        ghc                   \
+        gcc-4.8               \
+        g++-4.8               \
+        cabal-install         \
+        build-essential       \
+        bash-completion       && \
+    apt-get clean
+
+# Set locale
+RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
+
+# Print tool versions
+RUN bash --version | head -n 1
+RUN zsh --version
+RUN ksh --version || true
+RUN dpkg -s dash | grep ^Version | awk '{print $2}'
+RUN git --version
+RUN curl --version
+RUN wget --version
+RUN cabal --version
+
+# Add user "nvm" as non-root user
+RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash nvm
+
+# Set sudoer for "nvm"
+RUN echo 'nvm ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
+
+# Switch to user "nvm" from now
+USER nvm
+
+# Shellcheck
+RUN cabal update
+RUN cabal install ShellCheck
+RUN ~/.cabal/bin/shellcheck --version
+RUN echo 'export PATH="~/.cabal/bin/:${PATH}"'                                >> $HOME/.bashrc
+
+# nvm
+COPY . /home/nvm/.nvm/
+RUN sudo chown nvm:nvm -R $HOME/.nvm
+RUN echo 'export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"'                                        >> $HOME/.bashrc
+RUN echo '[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm' >> $HOME/.bashrc
+RUN echo '[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion' >> $HOME/.bashrc
+
+# nodejs and tools
+RUN bash -c 'source $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh   && \
+    nvm install node                    && \
+    npm install -g doctoc urchin        && \
+    npm install --prefix "$HOME/.nvm/"'
+
+# Set WORKDIR to nvm directory
+WORKDIR /home/nvm/.nvm
+
+ENTRYPOINT /bin/bash
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fb3f0d6..926c254 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   - [Usage](#usage-1)
 - [Compatibility Issues](#compatibility-issues)
 - [Installing nvm on Alpine Linux](#installing-nvm-on-alpine-linux)
+- [Docker for development environment](#docker-for-development-environment)
 - [Problems](#problems)
 - [Mac OS "troubleshooting"](#mac-os-troubleshooting)
 
@@ -485,6 +486,36 @@ The Node project has some desire but no concrete plans (due to the overheads of
 
 As a potential alternative, @mhart (a Node contributor) has some [Docker images for Alpine Linux with Node and optionally, npm, pre-installed](https://github.com/mhart/alpine-node).
 
+## Docker for development environment
+
+To make the development and testing work easier, we have a Dockerfile for development usage, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04i base image, prepared with essential and useful tools for `nvm` development, to build the docker image of the environment, run the docker command at the root of `nvm` repository:
+
+```sh
+$ docker build -t nvm-dev .
+```
+
+This will package your current nvm repository with our pre-defiend deveopment environment into a docker image named `nvm-dev`, once it's built with success, validate your image via `docker images`:
+
+```sh
+$ docker images
+
+REPOSITORY         TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
+nvm-dev            latest              9ca4c57a97d8        7 days ago          1.22 GB
+```
+
+If you got no error message, now you can easily involved in:
+
+```sh
+$ docker run -it nvm-dev -h nvm-dev
+
+nvm@nvm-dev:~/.nvm$
+```
+
+Please note that it'll take about 15 minutes to build the image and the image size would be about 1.2GB, so it's not sutable for production usage.
+
+For more information and documentation about docker, please refer to its official website:
+ - https://www.docker.com/
+ - https://docs.docker.com/
 
 ## Problems