diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..30b479c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+# This file was inspired by the golangci-lint one:
+# https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/blob/master/.golangci.yml
+run:
+  # default concurrency is a available CPU number
+  concurrency: 4
+
+  # timeout for analysis, e.g. 30s, 5m, default is 1m
+  timeout: 5m
+linters-settings:
+  govet:
+    check-shadowing: true
+  golint:
+    min-confidence: 0
+  gocyclo:
+    min-complexity: 20
+  gocognit:
+    min-complexity: 100
+  maligned:
+    suggest-new: true
+  dupl:
+    threshold: 100
+  goconst:
+    min-len: 2
+    min-occurrences: 2
+  misspell:
+    locale: UK
+  lll:
+    line-length: 140
+  gofmt:
+    simplify: false
+  gocritic:
+    enabled-tags:
+      - diagnostic
+      - experimental
+      - opinionated
+      - performance
+      - style
+    disabled-checks:
+      - wrapperFunc
+      - dupImport # https://github.com/go-critic/go-critic/issues/845
+      - ifElseChain
+      - octalLiteral
+      - hugeParam
+  # lines: 100
+  # statements: 100
+
+linters:
+  # please, do not use `enable-all`: it's deprecated and will be removed soon.
+  # inverted configuration with `enable-all` and `disable` is not scalable during updates of golangci-lint
+  disable-all: true
+  enable:
+    - depguard
+    - dogsled
+    - gochecknoinits
+    - gocritic
+    - gocyclo
+    - gofmt
+    - goimports
+    - revive
+    - gosec
+    - govet
+    - ineffassign
+    - nakedret
+    - unconvert
+    - whitespace
+    - gocognit
+    - prealloc
+
+issues:
+  exclude-rules:
+    - path: _test\.go
+      linters:
+        - gocyclo
+        - errcheck
+        - dupl
+        - gosec
+        - goconst
+        - revive
+        - gocritic
+        - ineffassign
+        - govet
+    - path: main.go|handlers
+      linters:
+        - typecheck
+  new: false
+
+# golangci.com configuration
+# https://github.com/golangci/golangci/wiki/Configuration
+service:
+  golangci-lint-version: 1.52.x # use the fixed version to not introduce new linters unexpectedly
+  prepare:
+    - echo "here I can run custom commands, but no preparation needed for this repo"
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2cc2595c..3e87fe6e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ debug: generate-debug
 	go build -tags 'debug' -o $(BINPATH)/dp-frontend-dataset-controller -ldflags "-X main.BuildTime=$(BUILD_TIME) -X main.GitCommit=$(GIT_COMMIT) -X main.Version=$(VERSION)"
 	HUMAN_LOG=1 DEBUG=1 $(BINPATH)/dp-frontend-dataset-controller
 
+.PHONY: lint 
+lint:
+	go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@v1.52.2
+	golangci-lint run ./...
+
 .PHONY: run
 run:
 	HUMAN_LOG=1 go run -tags 'production' -ldflags "-X main.BuildTime=$(BUILD_TIME) -X main.GitCommit=$(GIT_COMMIT) -X main.Version=$(VERSION)" -race $(LDFLAGS) main.go
diff --git a/ci/lint.yml b/ci/lint.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e96a6da8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/lint.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+
+platform: linux
+
+image_resource:
+  type: docker-image
+  source:
+    repository: golang
+    tag: 1.20.4
+
+inputs:
+  - name: dp-frontend-dataset-controller
+    
+caches:
+  - path: go/
+
+run:
+  path: dp-frontend-dataset-controller/ci/scripts/lint.sh
diff --git a/ci/scripts/lint.sh b/ci/scripts/lint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b72e901a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/scripts/lint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash -eux
+
+cwd=$(pwd)
+
+pushd $cwd/dp-frontend-dataset-controller
+  make lint
+popd