diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7dddc3b533b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, go-md2man, pkgconfig
+, libcap, libseccomp, python3, systemd, yajl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "crun";
+  version = "0.8";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "containers";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "1anvlgw373031w0pp0b28l10yrnyhbj192n60bbbjahw487dk2fi";
+    fetchSubmodules = true;
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook go-md2man pkgconfig python3 ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ libcap libseccomp systemd yajl ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  # the tests require additional permissions
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers";
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ca37025f7f31..763ceed7bb31 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17690,6 +17690,8 @@ in
 
   cpp_ethereum = callPackage ../applications/misc/cpp-ethereum { };
 
+  crun = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/crun {};
+
   csdp = callPackage ../applications/science/math/csdp { };
 
   ctop = callPackage ../tools/system/ctop { };