diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index cbddccac2f..a7b6bbc427 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ RUN	apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 	lxc=1.0* \
 	mercurial \
 	parallel \
+	python-mock \
+	python-pip \
+	python-websocket \
 	reprepro \
 	ruby1.9.1 \
 	ruby1.9.1-dev \
@@ -93,6 +96,9 @@ RUN	git clone -b buildroot-2014.02 https://github.com/jpetazzo/docker-busybox.gi
 # Get the "cirros" image source so we can import it instead of fetching it during tests
 RUN	curl -sSL -o /cirros.tar.gz https://github.com/ewindisch/docker-cirros/raw/1cded459668e8b9dbf4ef976c94c05add9bbd8e9/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-lxc.tar.gz
 
+# Get the "docker-py" source so we can run their integration tests
+RUN	git clone -b 0.7.0 https://github.com/docker/docker-py.git /docker-py
+
 # Setup s3cmd config
 RUN	/bin/echo -e '[default]\naccess_key=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY\nsecret_key=$AWS_SECRET_KEY' > $HOME/.s3cfg
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ae1d295239..180ae314d0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: all binary build cross default docs docs-build docs-shell shell test test-unit test-integration test-integration-cli validate
+.PHONY: all binary build cross default docs docs-build docs-shell shell test test-unit test-integration test-integration-cli test-docker-py validate
 
 # env vars passed through directly to Docker's build scripts
 # to allow things like `make DOCKER_CLIENTONLY=1 binary` easily
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ docs-test: docs-build
 	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCS) "$(DOCKER_DOCS_IMAGE)" ./test.sh
 
 test: build
-	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCKER) hack/make.sh binary cross test-unit test-integration test-integration-cli
+	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCKER) hack/make.sh binary cross test-unit test-integration test-integration-cli test-docker-py
 
 test-unit: build
 	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCKER) hack/make.sh test-unit
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ test-integration: build
 test-integration-cli: build
 	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCKER) hack/make.sh binary test-integration-cli
 
+test-docker-py: build
+	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCKER) hack/make.sh binary test-docker-py
+
 validate: build
 	$(DOCKER_RUN_DOCKER) hack/make.sh validate-gofmt validate-dco
 
diff --git a/project/make.sh b/project/make.sh
index 2b3a530ea1..cf12016497 100755
--- a/project/make.sh
+++ b/project/make.sh
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ DEFAULT_BUNDLES=(
 	test-unit
 	test-integration
 	test-integration-cli
+	test-docker-py
 
 	dynbinary
 	dyntest-unit
diff --git a/project/make/.integration-daemon-start b/project/make/.integration-daemon-start
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b974422cd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project/make/.integration-daemon-start
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# see test-integration-cli for example usage of this script
+
+export PATH="$DEST/../binary:$DEST/../dynbinary:$PATH"
+
+if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
+	echo >&2 'error: binary or dynbinary must be run before .integration-daemon-start'
+	false
+fi
+
+# intentionally open a couple bogus file descriptors to help test that they get scrubbed in containers
+exec 41>&1 42>&2
+
+DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER=${DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER:-vfs}
+DOCKER_EXECDRIVER=${DOCKER_EXECDRIVER:-native}
+
+( set -x; exec \
+	docker --daemon --debug \
+	--storage-driver "$DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER" \
+	--exec-driver "$DOCKER_EXECDRIVER" \
+	--pidfile "$DEST/docker.pid" \
+		&> "$DEST/docker.log"
+) &
diff --git a/project/make/.integration-daemon-stop b/project/make/.integration-daemon-stop
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..57dc651d46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project/make/.integration-daemon-stop
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+for pid in $(find "$DEST" -name docker.pid); do
+	DOCKER_PID=$(set -x; cat "$pid")
+	( set -x; kill $DOCKER_PID )
+	wait $DOCKERD_PID || true
+done
diff --git a/project/make/test-docker-py b/project/make/test-docker-py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1096c9cbfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project/make/test-docker-py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+DEST=$1
+
+# subshell so that we can export PATH without breaking other things
+exec > >(tee -a $DEST/test.log) 2>&1
+(
+	source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.integration-daemon-start"
+
+	dockerPy='/docker-py'
+	[ -d "$dockerPy" ] || {
+		dockerPy="$DEST/docker-py"
+		git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-py.git "$dockerPy"
+	}
+
+	cd "$dockerPy"
+	export PYTHONPATH=. # import "docker" from "."
+	python tests/integration_test.py
+
+	source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.integration-daemon-stop"
+)
diff --git a/project/make/test-integration-cli b/project/make/test-integration-cli
index e371fac071..b8647ef763 100644
--- a/project/make/test-integration-cli
+++ b/project/make/test-integration-cli
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ set -e
 
 DEST=$1
 
-DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER=${DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER:-vfs}
-DOCKER_EXECDRIVER=${DOCKER_EXECDRIVER:-native}
-
 bundle_test_integration_cli() {
 	go_test_dir ./integration-cli
 }
@@ -13,23 +10,7 @@ bundle_test_integration_cli() {
 # subshell so that we can export PATH without breaking other things
 exec > >(tee -a $DEST/test.log) 2>&1
 (
-	export PATH="$DEST/../binary:$DEST/../dynbinary:$PATH"
-
-	if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
-		echo >&2 'error: binary or dynbinary must be run before test-integration-cli'
-		false
-	fi
-
-	# intentionally open a couple bogus file descriptors to help test that they get scrubbed in containers
-	exec 41>&1 42>&2
-
-	( set -x; exec \
-		docker --daemon --debug \
-		--storage-driver "$DOCKER_GRAPHDRIVER" \
-		--exec-driver "$DOCKER_EXECDRIVER" \
-		--pidfile "$DEST/docker.pid" \
-			&> "$DEST/docker.log"
-	) &
+	source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.integration-daemon-start"
 
 	# pull the busybox image before running the tests
 	sleep 2
@@ -38,9 +19,5 @@ exec > >(tee -a $DEST/test.log) 2>&1
 
 	bundle_test_integration_cli
 
-	for pid in $(find "$DEST" -name docker.pid); do
-		DOCKER_PID=$(set -x; cat "$pid")
-		( set -x; kill $DOCKER_PID )
-		wait $DOCKERD_PID || true
-	done
+	source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.integration-daemon-stop"
 )