diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index de40c11..471b7dd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@
 *.pyc
 __pycache__
 /.pytest_cache/
+/python
 Thumbs.db
 /.vscode/
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f0ebf24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+let
+  pkgs = import (
+    builtins.fetchTarball {
+      url = "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/archive/b06025f1533a1e07b6db3e75151caa155d1c7eb3.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "1b8dim6xpcg3wyb0xa0w4h4m22npbzl2np822x4r7wiw5wnnzg5a";
+    }
+  ) {};
+  poetry2nix = import (
+    builtins.fetchTarball {
+      url = "https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/archive/7df29134065172f24385177ea69e755cb90f196c.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0qx2iv57vhgraaqj4dm9zd3dha1p6ch4n07pja0hsxsymjbvdanw";
+    }
+  ) {inherit pkgs;};
+  poetryPackages = poetry2nix.mkPoetryPackages {
+    projectDir = builtins.path {
+      path = ./.;
+      name = "python-linz-logger";
+    };
+  };
+in
+  pkgs.mkShell {
+    packages = [
+      pkgs.bashInteractive
+      pkgs.poetry
+      poetryPackages.poetryPackages
+    ];
+    shellHook = ''
+      ln --force --no-target-directory --symbolic "${poetryPackages.python}/bin/python" python
+    '';
+  }