diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/ignite/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/ignite/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5439ad57b1a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/ignite/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+{ lib
+, cni-plugins
+, buildGoModule
+, firecracker
+, containerd
+, runc
+, makeWrapper
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, git
+}:
+
+buildGoModule rec{
+  pname = "ignite";
+  version = "0.9.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "weaveworks";
+    repo = "ignite";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-rjCsZ12DHcSw5GZu6jGTtqCPOZDSbYoMplkqvspbvO8=";
+    leaveDotGit = true;
+  };
+
+  vendorSha256 = null;
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    # ignite tries to run cni-plugins programs from /opt/cni/bin
+    substituteInPlace pkg/constants/dependencies.go \
+      --replace "/opt/cni/bin/loopback" ${cni-plugins}/bin/loopback \
+      --replace "/opt/cni/bin/bridge" ${cni-plugins}/bin/bridge
+
+    # ignite tries to run cni-plugins programs from /opt/cni/bin
+    substituteInPlace pkg/network/cni/cni.go \
+      --replace "/opt/cni/bin" ${cni-plugins}/bin
+
+    # fetchgit doesn't fetch tags from git repository so it's necessary to force IGNITE_GIT_VERSION to be ${version}
+    # also forcing git state to be clean because if it's dirty ignite will try to fetch the image weaveworks/ignite:dev
+    # which is not in docker.io, we want it to fetch the image weaveworks/ignite:v${version}
+    substituteInPlace hack/ldflags.sh \
+      --replace '$(git describe --tags --abbrev=14 "''${IGNITE_GIT_COMMIT}^{commit}" 2>/dev/null)' "v${version}" \
+      --replace 'IGNITE_GIT_TREE_STATE="dirty"' 'IGNITE_GIT_TREE_STATE="clean"'
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    git
+    makeWrapper
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    firecracker
+  ];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    patchShebangs ./hack/ldflags.sh
+    export buildFlagsArray+=("-ldflags=$(./hack/ldflags.sh)")
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    for prog in hack ignite ignited ignite-spawn; do
+        wrapProgram "$out/bin/$prog" --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ cni-plugins firecracker containerd runc ]}
+    done
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Ignite a Firecracker microVM";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ tfmoraes ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f8f781f0e10a..de54881ab478 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5561,6 +5561,8 @@ in
       irods
       irods-icommands;
 
+  ignite = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/ignite { };
+
   igmpproxy = callPackage ../tools/networking/igmpproxy { };
 
   ihaskell = callPackage ../development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/wrapper.nix {