diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/wait-for-it/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/wait-for-it/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bb8916424919a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/wait-for-it/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenvNoCC, lib, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "wait-for-it-unstable";
+  version = "unstable-2020-02-05";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "vishnubob";
+    repo = "wait-for-it";
+    rev = "c096cface5fbd9f2d6b037391dfecae6fde1362e";
+    sha256 = "1k1il4bk8l2jmfrrcklznc8nbm69qrjgxm20l02k01vhv2m2jc85";
+  };
+  phases = [ "unpackPhase" "installPhase" "fixupPhase" ];
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+
+    install -D ./wait-for-it.sh  $out/bin/wait-for-it
+
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it";
+    description =
+      "Pure bash script to test and wait on the availability of a TCP host and port";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.silviogutierrez ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 70462514ddb09..7cdb9e90effc6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7386,6 +7386,8 @@ in
 
   wakatime = pythonPackages.callPackage ../tools/misc/wakatime { };
 
+  wait-for-it = callPackage ../tools/networking/wait-for-it {};
+
   weather = callPackage ../applications/misc/weather { };
 
   wego = callPackage ../applications/misc/wego { };