diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b3ca772b..112b2f14 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,6 @@ server/exllama_kernels/exllama_kernels/hip_func/
 *_hip.cuh
 server/exllama_kernels/exllama_kernels/hip_buffers.cuh
 server/exllama_kernels/exllama_kernels/exllama_ext_hip.cpp
+
+# ignore default docker directory
+data/
diff --git a/quickstart.sh b/quickstart.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..42226488
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quickstart.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Check if Docker is installed
+if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
+  # Install Docker based on the OS
+  if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
+    # Ubuntu/Debian-based systems
+    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y docker.io
+  elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+    # macOS (using Homebrew)
+    brew install --cask docker
+  elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "msys"* ]]; then
+    # Windows (using Chocolatey)
+    choco install docker-desktop
+  else
+    echo "Unsupported OS: $OSTYPE"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
+# Install NVIDIA Container Toolkit (only if on Linux)
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
+  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-container-toolkit
+elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+  # Currently, NVIDIA Container Toolkit does not support macOS, so warn the user.
+  echo "NVIDIA Container Toolkit is not available for macOS."
+  exit 1
+elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "msys"* ]]; then
+  # Currently, NVIDIA Container Toolkit does not support Windows directly.
+  echo "NVIDIA Container Toolkit is not available for Windows. Ensure Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend is enabled."
+fi
+
+# Set variables for the Docker container
+model="HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta"
+volume="$PWD/data"
+
+# Run the Docker container in interactive mode to allow CTRL+C to stop the container
+docker run -it --gpus all --shm-size 1g -p 8080:80 -v "$volume:/data" ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:2.0 --model-id "$model"