diff --git a/tests/docker-compose.yml b/tests/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b7b46f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+mariadb:
+    image: mcp/mariadb
+    environment:
+        DB_ROOT_PASSWORD: r00tme
+    ports:
+      - 33306:3306
diff --git a/tests/test_mariadb.py b/tests/test_mariadb.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d46e01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_mariadb.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+from subprocess import check_call
+import time
+import docker
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope='module')
+def cli(request):
+    return docker.Client()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope='module')
+def container(cli):
+    return cli.containers(
+        filters={"label": "com.docker.compose.service=mariadb"})[0]
+
+
+def setup_module(module):
+    check_call(['docker-compose', 'up', '-d'])
+    time.sleep(30)
+
+
+def teardown_module(module):
+    check_call(['docker-compose', 'down'])
+
+
+def test_mysql_check_mysqld(cli, container):
+    res = cli.exec_create(container['Id'], "pgrep mysql")
+    cli.exec_start(res)
+    assert cli.exec_inspect(res)['ExitCode'] == 0
+
+
+def test_mysql_is_running():
+    cmd = ['nc', '-z', '-v', '-w5', '127.0.0.1', '33306']
+    check_call(cmd)
+
+
+def test_mysql_is_accessible(cli, container):
+    cmd = ("bash -c 'mysql -Ns -h127.0.0.1 -uroot -p$DB_ROOT_PASSWORD"
+           " -e \"SHOW DATABASES\"'")
+    res = cli.exec_create(container['Id'], cmd)
+    out = cli.exec_start(res)
+    assert cli.exec_inspect(res)['ExitCode'] == 0
+    out = filter(bool, out.split('\n'))
+    assert set(out) == \
+        set(['information_schema', 'mysql', 'performance_schema'])
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 4e6bef6..02025d0 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -15,3 +15,12 @@ commands =
 commands =
     {toxinidir}/tools/run-check-docker-syntax.sh
 
+[testenv:py27]
+deps =
+    docker-py
+    docker-compose
+    pytest
+changedir={toxinidir}/tests
+commands =
+    py.test -vv {posargs}
+