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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+FROM mambaorg/micromamba
+ARG MAMBA_DOCKERFILE_ACTIVATE=1
+RUN micromamba install -y -c https://packages.qiime2.org/qiime2/2023.2/tested/ \
+	-c conda-forge -c bioconda -c defaults \
+	q2cli q2-fondue
+ENV PATH /opt/conda/bin:$PATH
+
+RUN mkdir $HOME/.ncbi
+RUN printf '/LIBS/GUID = "%s"\n' `uuidgen` > $HOME/.ncbi/user-settings.mkfg
+
+CMD [ "/bin/bash" ]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 </p><br>
 
 ## Installation
-You can install q2-fondue using mamba in a conda environment of its own (option 1) or in an existing QIIME 2 environment (option 2) by following the steps described below. The current q2-fondue version supports QIIME 2 **v2021.4** or higher.
+You can install q2-fondue using mamba in a conda environment of its own (option 1) or in an existing QIIME 2 environment (option 2) by following the steps described below. The current q2-fondue version supports QIIME 2 **v2021.4** or higher. Alternatively, a minimal Docker image is available to run q2-fondue methods (option 3 below).
 
 For both options 1 and 2 make sure to start by installing [mamba](https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) in your base environment:
 ```shell
@@ -63,6 +63,24 @@ vdb-config -i
 vdb-config --proxy <your proxy URL> --proxy-disable no
 ```
 
+### Option 3: Use fondue via a public Docker image
+Use containerization to integrate q2-fondue into your pipelines, or simply run reproducibly without the need for heavyweight package managers. [Read more about Docker here.](https://www.docker.com/get-started/)
+ 
+* Install [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/) with the linked instructions
+* Pull the [q2-fondue Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/layers/linathekim/q2-fondue/2023.2/images/sha256-214d0575eb4eaf435c5c4a7d29edf0fc082e47999b884b52a173f2ec469975f2?context=repo):
+```shell
+docker pull linathekim/q2-fondue:2023.2
+```
+* Within the container, refresh the QIIME 2 CLI cache to see that everything worked:
+```shell
+qiime dev refresh-cache
+qiime fondue --help
+```
+* If you need to configure a proxy server, run the following command:
+```shell
+vdb-config --proxy <your proxy URL> --proxy-disable no
+```
+
 ## Space requirements
 Running q2-fondue requires space in the temporary (`TMPDIR`) and output directory. The space requirements for the output directory can be estimated by inserting the run or project IDs in the [SRA Run Selector](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/study/). To estimate the space requirements for the temporary directory, multiply the output directory space requirement by a factor of 10. The current implementation of q2-fondue requires you to have a minimum of 2 GB of available space in your temporary directory.