diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..451dff537
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+language: c
+dist: trusty
+sudo: true
+
+# Trusty (aka 14.04) is way way too old, so run in docker...
+script:
+  - tools/travis.sh
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 434bf8eee..7852ae383 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ You will need several development libraries:
 * protobuf-c: version 1.1.0 or above.
 * libsqlite3: for database support.
 * libgmp: for secp256k1
-* asciidoc: for formatting the man page (if you change them)
+
+For actually doing development and running the tests, you will also need:
+* pip3: to install python-bitcoinlib
+* asciidoc: for formatting the man pages (if you change them)
+* valgrind: for extra debugging checks
 
 You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness support,
 such as the 0.13 or above.
@@ -16,7 +20,12 @@ To Build on Ubuntu 16.04
 
 Get dependencies:
 ```
-sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libsqlite3-dev libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev asciidoc
+sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libsqlite3-dev libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev
+```
+
+For development or running tests, get additional dependencies:
+```
+sudo apt-get asciidoc valgrind pip3 && pip3 install python-bitcoinlib
 ```
 
 Clone lightning:
diff --git a/tools/travis.sh b/tools/travis.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..91cb3289f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/travis.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This build script is for running the Travis builds using docker.
+# Stolen from: https://github.com/shenki/openbmc-build-scripts/blob/master/linux-openbmc-build.sh
+
+# Trace bash processing
+set -ex
+
+# Build the docker container
+docker build -t ubuntu - <<EOF
+FROM ubuntu:16.10
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+RUN apt-get update && \
+	apt-get install -yy eatmydata software-properties-common && \
+	eatmydata add-apt-repository -y ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin && \
+	eatmydata apt-get update && \
+	eatmydata apt-get install -yy \
+	build-essential autoconf libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libsqlite3-dev libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev git python3 python valgrind net-tools bitcoind python3-pip && \
+	pip3 install python-bitcoinlib
+
+RUN grep -q ${GROUPS} /etc/group || groupadd -g ${GROUPS} ${USER}
+RUN grep -q ${UID} /etc/passwd || useradd -d ${HOME} -m -u ${UID} -g ${GROUPS} ${USER}
+
+USER ${USER}
+ENV HOME ${HOME}
+RUN /bin/bash
+EOF
+
+# Run the docker container, execute the build script we just built
+docker run --rm=true --user="${USER}" -w "$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR" -v "${HOME}":"${HOME}" \
+       -t ubuntu make -j2 check-source check