diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07eb408
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+sudo: required
+
+services:
+  - docker
+
+install:
+  - docker build . -t openwrt-elastic:6.1.1
+
+script:
+  - docker run -d -p 9200:9200 --restart=unless-stopped --name elasticsearch -e "xpack.security.enabled=false" openwrt-elastic:6.1.1
+  - sleep 15
+  - sh test/test-connection.sh
+  - sh test/test-send-receive-indexes.sh
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d321fcd..92a7666 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 Elastic 6.1.1 as a Docker container. For development use only.
 
+**Note that this repository is not yet linked to our Dockerhub account.** This means you'll have to build the image yourself first with: 
+
+```
+docker build . -t mcreations/openwrt-elastic
+```
+
+from this repository's top directory. 
+
+
 ## Quickstart
 Without arguments, the container starts the Elastic server:
 
@@ -8,7 +17,7 @@ docker run -d --name elastic mcreations/openwrt-elastic
 ```
 
 ## Configuration Details
-the volume as /data cab be passed from outside of Docker container with -v switch.
+the volume as /data can be passed from outside of Docker container with -v switch.
 The ports can be opened  with -p switch.
 
 This is a sample command line with custom parameters:
diff --git a/test/test-connection.sh b/test/test-connection.sh
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test-connection.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Sometimes health tests should be repeated (especially if this is ran right after the containers come up).
+
+echo "first health test:"
+curl http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/health
+
+sleep 4 
+echo "second health test:"
+curl http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/health
+
+sleep 3 
+echo "third health test:"
+curl http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/health
+
+echo "Indices:"
+curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices
diff --git a/test/test-send-receive-indexes.sh b/test/test-send-receive-indexes.sh
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index 0000000..ef241a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test-send-receive-indexes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# create a new index while posting a message to it:
+
+curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/foo/tweet/1?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
+{
+    "user" : "kimchy",
+    "post_date" : "2009-11-15T14:12:12",
+    "message" : "trying out Elasticsearch"
+}
+'
+
+# query for this index:
+
+curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?pretty'
+
+
+# post a second message to the index:
+
+
+curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/foo/tweet/2?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
+{
+    "title" : "Search",
+    "publish_date" : "2017-11-15",
+    "content" : "trying out Elasticsearch",
+    "status" : "published"
+}
+'
+
+# send a query on this index to get only the second message:
+
+echo "Query test:"
+
+curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
+{
+  "query": { 
+    "bool": { 
+      "must": [
+        { "match": { "title":   "Search"        }}, 
+        { "match": { "content": "Elasticsearch" }}  
+      ],
+      "filter": [ 
+        { "term":  { "status": "published" }}, 
+        { "range": { "publish_date": { "gte": "2015-01-01" }}} 
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
+'