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diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
index 3ca9386f..6e2ea19e 100644
--- a/contrib/README
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ should look something like this:
   datadir: "/var/lib/collectd/rrd/"
   libdir: "/usr/lib/collectd/"
 
+docker/
+-------
+Sample docker setup using an LD_PRELOAD wrapper to redirect system calls
+accessing /proc and /sys to prefixed bind-mounts inside the container.
+
+Drop your collectd configuration snippets in the
+contrib/docker/collectd.conf.d/ directory, and build an image including them:
+ $ docker build -t my_collectd ./contrib/docker/
+
+Then run it with the required bind-mounts:
+ $ docker run -it --rm \
+    -v /proc:/rootfs/proc:ro -v /sys:/rootfs/sys:ro \
+    --name collectd my_collectd
+ $ docker exec -it collectd collectdctl listval
+
 exec-munin.px
 -------------
   Script to be used with the exec-plugin (see collectd-exec(5) for details)
@@ -70,11 +85,6 @@ file. That is very handy when you realise that you have bundled up DSes in one
 RRD-file that should have been in multiple RRD-files instead. Is is used by
 `migrate-3-4.px' to split up the cpu-, nfs-, swap-files and possibly others.
 
-fedora/
--------
-  Init-script and Spec-file that can be used when creating RPM-packages for
-Fedora.
-
 GenericJMX.conf
 ---------------
   Example configuration file for the ‘GenericJMX’ Java plugin. Please read the