diff --git a/.gitpod.Dockerfile b/.gitpod.Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..15b1a5ab2e768
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitpod.Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+FROM gitpod/workspace-full:latest
+
+USER root
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends apt-utils dialog 2>&1 \
+    #
+    # Verify git, process tools, lsb-release (common in install instructions for CLIs) installed
+    && apt-get -y install git iproute2 procps iproute2 lsb-release \
+    #
+    # Install C compilers (gcc not enough, so just went with build-essential which admittedly might be overkill),
+    # needed to build pandas C extensions
+    && apt-get -y install build-essential \
+    # Install lib-snappy (dependency of python-snappy).
+    && apt-get -y install libsnappy-dev \
+    #
+    # cleanup
+    && apt-get autoremove -y \
+    && apt-get clean -y \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+USER gitpod
diff --git a/.gitpod.yml b/.gitpod.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0b1cc96f4bbc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitpod.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+image:
+  file: .gitpod.Dockerfile
+tasks:
+  - init: pip install -r requirements-dev.txt && make develop
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 33dfbf10ff743..f38e1e899f717 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 [![Downloads](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pandas/badges/downloads.svg)](https://pandas.pydata.org)
 [![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/pydata/pandas)
 [![Powered by NumFOCUS](https://img.shields.io/badge/powered%20by-NumFOCUS-orange.svg?style=flat&colorA=E1523D&colorB=007D8A)](https://numfocus.org)
+[![Gitpod Ready-to-Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Gitpod-ready--to--code-blue?logo=gitpod)](https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas)
 
 ## What is it?