diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19261bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.git
+.github
+packaged
+target
+
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 236c586..91ec182 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
-version = 3
+version = 4
 
 [[package]]
 name = "addr2line"
@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ version = "0.7.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f46ad14479a25103f283c0f10005961cf086d8dc42205bb44c46ac563475dca6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cmake"
+version = "0.1.54"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e7caa3f9de89ddbe2c607f4101924c5abec803763ae9534e4f4d7d8f84aa81f0"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "colorchoice"
 version = "1.0.3"
@@ -1569,6 +1578,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d2d16453e800a8cf6dd2fc3eb4bc99b786a9b90c663b8559a5b1a041bf89e472"
 dependencies = [
  "cc",
+ "cmake",
  "libc",
  "pkg-config",
  "vcpkg",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5253299..258aca8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ comrak = { version = "0.28.0", optional = true }
 default = ["reqwest/default-tls"] # link against system library
 rustls = ["reqwest/rustls-tls", "openidconnect/rustls-tls"] # include rustls, ssl library written in rust
 vendored-openssl = ["openssl/vendored"] # include compiled openssl library
+vendored-zlib = ["git2/zlib-ng-compat"] # without this feature wherever the cli is installed needs to have zlib.so
 user-doc = [ "dep:comrak" ]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24efdf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+FROM rust:bookworm AS builder
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY . .
+RUN apt update && apt install -y cmake
+RUN cargo build --release --bin rnk -F vendored-openssl -F vendored-zlib --target-dir /build
+
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian12
+COPY --from=builder /build/release/rnk /rnk
+ENTRYPOINT ["/rnk"]
diff --git a/musl.Dockerfile b/musl.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc4ce07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/musl.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+FROM rust:bookworm AS builder
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY . .
+RUN apt update && apt install -y cmake musl-tools
+RUN rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl && cargo build --release --bin rnk -F vendored-openssl -F vendored-zlib --target-dir /build --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
+
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/static
+COPY --from=builder /build/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/rnk /rnk
+ENTRYPOINT ["/rnk"]