diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index d7c2991d7..07f2e99fd 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
     box.vm.box = "chef/centos-6.5"
   end
 
+  config.vm.define "centos7" do |box|
+    box.vm.box = "centos/7"
+    box.vm.provision "shell", path: "build_tools/setup_centos7.sh"
+  end
+
   config.vm.define "FreeBSD10" do |box|
     box.vm.guest = :freebsd
     box.vm.box = "robin/freebsd-10"
diff --git a/build_tools/setup_centos7.sh b/build_tools/setup_centos7.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c633131de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_tools/setup_centos7.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+ROCKSDB_VERSION="5.10.3"
+ZSTD_VERSION="1.1.3"
+
+echo "This script configures CentOS with everything needed to build and run RocksDB"
+
+yum update -y && yum install epel-release -y
+
+yum install -y \
+  wget \
+  gcc-c++ \
+  snappy snappy-devel \
+  zlib zlib-devel \
+  bzip2 bzip2-devel \
+  lz4-devel \
+  libasan \
+  gflags
+
+mkdir -pv /usr/local/rocksdb-${ROCKSDB_VERSION}
+ln -sfT /usr/local/rocksdb-${ROCKSDB_VERSION} /usr/local/rocksdb
+
+wget -qO /tmp/zstd-${ZSTD_VERSION}.tar.gz https://github.com/facebook/zstd/archive/v${ZSTD_VERSION}.tar.gz
+wget -qO /tmp/rocksdb-${ROCKSDB_VERSION}.tar.gz https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/archive/v${ROCKSDB_VERSION}.tar.gz
+
+cd /tmp
+
+tar xzvf zstd-${ZSTD_VERSION}.tar.gz
+tar xzvf rocksdb-${ROCKSDB_VERSION}.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
+
+echo "Installing ZSTD..."
+pushd zstd-${ZSTD_VERSION}
+make && make install
+popd
+
+echo "Compiling RocksDB..."
+cd /usr/local/rocksdb
+chown -R vagrant:vagrant /usr/local/rocksdb/
+sudo -u vagrant make static_lib
+cd examples/
+sudo -u vagrant make all
+sudo -u vagrant ./c_simple_example