diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f94a30ee861..f37422a2cf1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -114,3 +114,5 @@ kubernetes.tar.gz
 
 # This file used by some vendor repos (e.g. github.com/go-openapi/...) to store secret variables and should not be ignored
 !\.drone\.sec
+
+/bazel-*
diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4e0d6fc62df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])
+
+licenses(["notice"])
+
+load("@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl", "go_prefix")
+
+go_prefix("k8s.io/kubernetes")
diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..56de2e7e277
--- /dev/null
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+git_repository(
+    name = "io_bazel_rules_go",
+    commit = "e0b19317b39357823b26c7e266596c8066e8f8e6",
+    remote = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go.git",
+)
+
+load("@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl", "go_repositories")
+
+go_repositories()
+
+# for building docker base images
+debs = (
+    (
+        "busybox_deb",
+        "51651980a993b02c8dc663a5539a4d83704e56c2fed93dd8d1b2580e61319af5",
+        "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/busybox/busybox-static_1.22.0-19_amd64.deb",
+    ),
+    (
+        "libc_deb",
+        "ee4d9dea08728e2c2bbf43d819c3c7e61798245fab4b983ae910865980f791ad",
+        "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.19-18+deb8u6_amd64.deb",
+    ),
+    (
+        "iptables_deb",
+        "7747388a97ba71fede302d70361c81d486770a2024185514c18b5d8eab6aaf4e",
+        "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iptables/iptables_1.4.21-2+b1_amd64.deb",
+    ),
+    (
+        "iproute2_deb",
+        "3ce9cb1d03a2a1359cbdd4f863b15d0c906096bf713e8eb688149da2f4e350bc",
+        "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iproute2/iproute_3.16.0-2_all.deb",
+    ),
+)
+
+[http_file(
+    name = name,
+    sha256 = sha256,
+    url = url,
+) for name, sha256, url in debs]
diff --git a/build/BUILD b/build/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e4257e2d185
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])
+
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/docker:docker.bzl", "docker_build")
+
+server_binaries = {
+    "kube-apiserver": "//cmd/kube-apiserver",
+    "kube-controller-manager": "//cmd/kube-controller-manager",
+    "kube-scheduler": "//plugin/cmd/kube-scheduler",
+}
+
+docker_build(
+    name = "busybox",
+    debs = [
+        "@busybox_deb//file",
+    ],
+    symlinks = {
+        "/bin/sh": "/bin/busybox",
+        "/usr/bin/busybox": "/bin/busybox",
+        "/usr/sbin/busybox": "/bin/busybox",
+        "/sbin/busybox": "/bin/busybox",
+    },
+)
+
+docker_build(
+    name = "busybox-libc",
+    base = ":busybox",
+    debs = [
+        "@libc_deb//file",
+    ],
+)
+
+docker_build(
+    name = "busybox-net",
+    base = ":busybox-libc",
+    debs = [
+        "@iptables_deb//file",
+        "@iproute2_deb//file",
+    ],
+)
+
+[docker_build(
+    name = name,
+    base = ":busybox-libc",
+    cmd = ["/" + name],
+    files = [
+        label,
+    ],
+    repository = "gcr.io/google-containers",
+) for name, label in server_binaries.items()]
+
+docker_build(
+    name = "kube-proxy",
+    base = ":busybox-net",
+    cmd = ["/kube-proxy"],
+    files = [
+        "//cmd/kube-proxy",
+    ],
+    repository = "gcr.io/google-containers",
+)
diff --git a/cluster/addons/BUILD b/cluster/addons/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93d225269f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster/addons/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])
+
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl", "pkg_tar")
+
+filegroup(
+    name = "addon-srcs",
+    srcs = glob([
+        "calico-policy-controller/*",
+        "cluster-loadbalancing/*",
+        "cluster-monitoring/*",
+        "dashboard/*",
+        "dns/*",
+        "etcd-empty-dir-cleanup/*",
+        "fluentd-elasticsearch/*",
+        "fluentd-gcp/*",
+        "gci/*",
+        "node-problem-detector/*",
+        "podsecuritypolicies/*",
+        "python-image/*",
+        "registry/*",
+    ]),
+)
+
+pkg_tar(
+    name = "addons",
+    extension = "tar.gz",
+    files = [
+        ":addon-srcs",
+    ],
+    strip_prefix = ".",
+)