diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ffd2bab41..7b588f3a3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ confluent?kafka.egg-info
 .cache
 *.log
 confluent-kafka-0.*.*
+tmp-build
+.tox
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4b183364c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+language: python
+python:
+  - "2.7"
+  - "3.4"
+before_install:
+  - bash tools/bootstrap-librdkafka.sh v0.9.2 tmp-build
+install:
+  - pip install -v --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-Itmp-build/include/" --global-option="-Ltmp-build/lib" .
+env:
+  - LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/tmp-build/lib
+script: py.test --ignore=tmp-build
diff --git a/tools/bootstrap-librdkafka.sh b/tools/bootstrap-librdkafka.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..97f9787c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootstrap-librdkafka.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#
+# Downloads, builds and installs librdkafka into <install-dir>
+#
+
+set -e
+
+VERSION=$1
+PREFIXDIR=$2
+
+if [[ -z "$VERSION" ]]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <librdkafka-version> [<install-dir>]" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ -z "$PREFIXDIR" ]]; then
+    PREFIXDIR=tmp-build
+fi
+
+if [[ $PREFIXDIR != /* ]]; then
+    PREFIXDIR="$PWD/$PREFIXDIR"
+fi
+
+mkdir -p "$PREFIXDIR/librdkafka"
+pushd "$PREFIXDIR/librdkafka"
+
+test -f configure ||
+curl -sL "https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/archive/${VERSION}.tar.gz" | \
+    tar -xz --strip-components=1 -f -
+
+./configure --prefix="$PREFIXDIR"
+make -j
+make install
+popd
+