diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2641c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: build
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+jobs:
+
+  build:
+    name: Build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+
+    - name: Set up Go 1.x
+      uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+      with:
+        go-version: ^1.14.3
+      id: go
+
+    - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Build
+      run: go build -v .
+
+    - name: Test
+      run: go test -v ./cmd/routedns
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 81b07b3..68796bb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # RouteDNS - DNS stub resolver, proxy and router
 
-[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/folbricht/routedns?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/folbricht/routedns)
+[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/folbricht/routedns?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/folbricht/routedns) ![build](https://github.com/folbricht/routedns/workflows/build/badge.svg)
 
 RouteDNS acts as a stub resolver and proxy that offers flexible configuration options with a focus on providing privacy as well as resiliency. It supports several DNS protocols such as plain UDP and TCP, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS as input and output. In addition it's possible to build complex configurations allowing routing of queries based on query name, type or source address as well as blocklists and name translation. Upstream resolvers can be grouped in various ways to provide failover, load-balancing, or performance.