diff --git a/Dockerfile.nanorc b/Dockerfile.nanorc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80e56df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile.nanorc
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+## Syntax highlighting for Dockerfiles
+syntax "Dockerfile" "Dockerfile[^/]*$"
+
+## Keywords
+icolor red "^(FROM|MAINTAINER|RUN|CMD|LABEL|EXPOSE|ENV|ADD|COPY|ENTRYPOINT|VOLUME|USER|WORKDIR|ONBUILD)[[:space:]]"
+
+## Brackets & parenthesis
+color brightgreen "(\(|\)|\[|\])"
+
+## Double ampersand
+color brightmagenta "&&"
+
+## Comments
+icolor cyan "^[[:space:]]*#.*$"
+
+## Blank space at EOL
+color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
+
+## Strings, single-quoted
+color brightwhite "'([^']|(\\'))*'" "%[qw]\{[^}]*\}" "%[qw]\([^)]*\)" "%[qw]<[^>]*>" "%[qw]\[[^]]*\]" "%[qw]\$[^$]*\$" "%[qw]\^[^^]*\^" "%[qw]![^!]*!"
+
+## Strings, double-quoted
+color brightwhite ""([^"]|(\\"))*"" "%[QW]?\{[^}]*\}" "%[QW]?\([^)]*\)" "%[QW]?<[^>]*>" "%[QW]?\[[^]]*\]" "%[QW]?\$[^$]*\$" "%[QW]?\^[^^]*\^" "%[QW]?![^!]*!"
+
+## Single and double quotes
+color brightyellow "('|\")"
diff --git a/nanorc b/nanorc
index 16849ec..2f028ec 100644
--- a/nanorc
+++ b/nanorc
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ include ~/.nano/css.nanorc
 include ~/.nano/cython.nanorc
 include ~/.nano/dot.nanorc
 include ~/.nano/email.nanorc
+include ~/.nano/Dockerfile.nanorc
 include ~/.nano/fish.nanorc
 include ~/.nano/fortran.nanorc
 include ~/.nano/gentoo.nanorc