diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 53e43cea..12ad6506 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ env:
     - PHP_VERSION=NA BUILD_SERVICE="adminer phpmyadmin pgadmin"
     - PHP_VERSION=NA BUILD_SERVICE="memcached beanstalkd beanstalkd-console rabbitmq elasticsearch certbot mailhog maildev selenium jenkins proxy proxy2 haproxy"
     - PHP_VERSION=NA BUILD_SERVICE="kibana grafana laravel-echo-server"
+    - PHP_VERSION=NA BUILD_SERVICE="ipython-controller"
     # - PHP_VERSION=NA BUILD_SERVICE="aws"
 
 # Installing a newer Docker version
diff --git a/ipython/Dockerfile.controller b/ipython/Dockerfile.controller
index 3acb62d9..d325c6f8 100644
--- a/ipython/Dockerfile.controller
+++ b/ipython/Dockerfile.controller
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ LABEL maintainer="ahkui <ahkui@outlook.com>"
 
 USER root
 
-RUN apk add --no-cache build-base
+RUN apk add --no-cache build-base zeromq-dev
 
 RUN python -m pip --quiet --no-cache-dir install \
         ipyparallel
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ RUN ipython profile create --parallel --profile=default
 COPY ipcontroller-client.json /root/.ipython/profile_default/security/ipcontroller-client.json
 COPY ipcontroller-engine.json /root/.ipython/profile_default/security/ipcontroller-engine.json
 
-CMD ["sh","-c","ipcontroller --ip=* --reuse"]
\ No newline at end of file
+CMD ["sh","-c","ipcontroller --ip=* --reuse"]
diff --git a/ipython/Dockerfile.engine b/ipython/Dockerfile.engine
index 5f709b61..b0ff3fca 100644
--- a/ipython/Dockerfile.engine
+++ b/ipython/Dockerfile.engine
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ LABEL maintainer="ahkui <ahkui@outlook.com>"
 
 USER root
 
-RUN apk add --no-cache build-base
+RUN apk add --no-cache build-base zeromq-dev
 
 RUN python -m pip --quiet --no-cache-dir install \
         ipyparallel \