diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1c15c4395..d523f9ce2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -156,9 +156,6 @@ cython_debug/
 # cursor
 .cursor/
 
-# docker
-docker/
-
 # scripts
 /scripts/
 
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.ci b/docker/Dockerfile.ci
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d513c054
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.ci
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+ARG VLLM_BASE_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai
+ARG VLLM_BASE_TAG=v0.11.0
+FROM ${VLLM_BASE_IMAGE}:${VLLM_BASE_TAG}
+ARG APP_DIR=/workspace/vllm-omni
+WORKDIR ${APP_DIR}
+
+COPY . .
+
+# Install vllm-omni into the same uv-managed Python environment used by the base image.
+RUN uv pip install --python "$(python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.executable)')" --no-cache-dir ".[dev]"
+
+RUN ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
+
+ENTRYPOINT []