diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 9db1d9b80eb..c46f13f4ca4 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ http_archive(
     ],
 )
 
+http_archive(
+    name = "io_bazel_rules_docker",
+    sha256 = "1698624e878b0607052ae6131aa216d45ebb63871ec497f26c67455b34119c80",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_docker-0.15.0",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker/releases/download/v0.15.0/rules_docker-v0.15.0.tar.gz"],
+)
+
 # Load tf_repositories() before loading dependencies for other repository so
 # that dependencies like com_google_protobuf won't be overridden.
 load("//tensorflow:workspace.bzl", "tf_repositories")