diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5713d2d216
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# .git/
+.mypy_cache/
+
+build
+dist
+docs
+test
+
+**/*.egg-info
+**/*.eggs/
+**/*.pyc
+**/*.swp
+
+.tox
+.coverage
+codecov.yml
+**/html/*
+**/__pycache__
+
+# Compiled Documentation
+docs/_build
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2063d8704d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+FROM python:3
+
+ADD . /gluonts
+
+RUN pip install /gluonts[shell]
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["python", "-m", "gluonts.shell"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1c79166a84..f357820792 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup_kwargs: dict = dict(
     name="gluonts",
-    use_scm_version=True,
+    use_scm_version={"fallback_version": "0.0.0"},
     description=(
         "GluonTS is a Python toolkit for probabilistic time series modeling, "
         "built around MXNet."