diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..72b03e19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+language: python
+sudo: required
+
+services:
+  - docker
+
+cache:
+  directories:
+    - ~/.cache/pip
+env:
+  - TARGET: bashate
+  - TARGET: pep8
+  - TARGET: docs
+  - TARGET: docs-gnocchi.xyz
+
+  - TARGET: py27-mysql-ceph-upgrade-from-3.1
+  - TARGET: py35-postgresql-file-upgrade-from-3.1
+
+  - TARGET: py27-mysql
+  - TARGET: py35-mysql
+  - TARGET: py27-postgresql
+  - TARGET: py35-postgresql
+
+before_script:
+# Travis We need to fetch all tags/branches for documentation target
+  - case $TARGET in
+      docs*)
+        git fetch origin $(git ls-remote -q | sed -n '/refs\/heads/s,.*refs/heads\(.*\),:remotes/origin\1,gp') ;
+        git fetch --tags ;
+        git fetch --unshallow ;
+        ;;
+    esac
+
+  - docker build --tag gnocchi-ci --file=tools/travis-ci-setup.dockerfile .
+script:
+  - docker run -v ~/.cache/pip:/home/tester/.cache/pip -v $(pwd):/home/tester/src gnocchi-ci tox -e ${TARGET}
+
+notifications:
+  email: false
+  irc:
+    on_success: change
+    on_failure: always
+    channels:
+      - "irc.freenode.org#gnocchi"
diff --git a/tools/travis-ci-setup.dockerfile b/tools/travis-ci-setup.dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..784c14c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/travis-ci-setup.dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+ENV GNOCCHI_SRC /home/tester/src
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+
+#NOTE(sileht): really no utf-8 in 2017 !?
+ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
+RUN update-locale
+RUN locale-gen $LANG
+
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -qy \
+        git \
+        wget \
+        nodejs \
+        nodejs-legacy \
+        npm \
+        python \
+        python3 \
+        python-dev \
+        python3-dev \
+        python-tox \
+        redis-server \
+        build-essential \
+        libffi-dev \
+        libpq-dev \
+        postgresql \
+        mysql-client \
+        mysql-server \
+        librados-dev \
+        ceph \
+    && apt-get clean -y
+
+RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash tester
+RUN mkdir $GNOCCHI_SRC
+RUN chown -R tester: $GNOCCHI_SRC
+USER tester
+WORKDIR $GNOCCHI_SRC
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index d7af9206..9518c349 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ deps = .[mysql,postgresql,test,file,ceph,swift,s3]
 commands = gnocchi-config-generator
 
 [testenv:docs]
+basepython = python2.7
 # This does not work, see: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issues/302
 # deps = {[testenv]deps}
 #        .[doc]
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ commands = doc8 --ignore-path doc/source/rest.rst doc/source
            pifpaf -g GNOCCHI_INDEXER_URL run postgresql -- python setup.py build_sphinx
 
 [testenv:docs-gnocchi.xyz]
+basepython = python2.7
 deps = .[file,postgresql,test,doc]
        sphinx_rtd_theme
        sphinxcontrib-versioning