diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2c28b23e..82ff9faa 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ FROM ubuntu:16.04
 MAINTAINER Sergey Skripnick <sskripnick@mirantis.com>
 
 # install prereqs
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --yes wget python vim bash-completion
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --yes wget python vim bash-completion gcc
 
 # ubuntu's pip is too old to work with the version of requests we
 # require, so get pip with get-pip.py