diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9335a932
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl gnupg && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN echo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends apg bzip2 xz-utils ca-certificates golang/bookworm-backports golang-go/bookworm-backports golang-doc/bookworm-backports golang-src/bookworm-backports make git python3 && \
+    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN useradd -m --shell /bin/sh --home-dir /var/lib/aptly aptly
+
+RUN mkdir app
+WORKDIR /app
+
+CMD /app/system/run-system-tests
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f2c3468b..cd7b1951 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -82,4 +82,10 @@ man:
 version:
 	@echo $(VERSION)
 
-.PHONY: man modules version release goxc
+docker-build:
+	docker build -f system/Dockerfile --no-cache . -t aptly-system-test
+
+docker-system-tests:
+	docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/app aptly-system-test
+
+.PHONY: man modules version release goxc docker-build docker-system-tests
diff --git a/system/run-system-tests b/system/run-system-tests
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3b564383
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/run-system-tests
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+rm -rf /tmp/aptly*
+rm -rf /home/test/.*
+rm -rf /home/test/aptly-fixture-*
+
+usermod -u `stat -c %u /app` aptly
+chown -R `stat -c %u /app` /var/lib/aptly
+
+mkdir -p /home/runner
+chown -R `stat -c %u /app` /home/runner
+
+exec su - aptly -c "cd /app; go mod tidy; HOME=/home/runner make system-test"