diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index edb4d56..cf14b98 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ npm start
 ```
 
 
-### Using Docker
-
-docker pull postgres
+### Using Docker-compose
 
+Start: `docker-compose up -d`
+Stop: `docker-compose down`
+Reset: `docker-compose down -v`
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index e69de29..cf58696 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+version: '3'
+
+services:
+  sqlshare:
+    build: .
+    environment:
+      SQLSHARE_DB: postgres://postgres:root@postgres/sqlshare
+    ports:
+      - 8080:8080
+    links:
+      - postgres
+  postgres:
+    image: postgres:alpine
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_DB: sqlshare
+      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: root
+    volumes:
+      - ./db/create.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/sqlshare-init.sql:ro
+      - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+
+volumes:
+  pgdata:
+    # volume to persist postgres data