diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f0a60098..39287cad 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ install
 .vscode
 /compile_commands.json
 .cache
+.spack-env
+spack.lock
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0407b17e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+spack:
+  specs:
+  - boost+container+program_options+filesystem+date_time+regex
+  - faircmakemodules
+  - fairlogger+pretty
+  - fmt
+  - libzmq
+  view: true
+  concretizer:
+    unify: true