Added basic Dockerfile support & documentation

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+FROM        sdurrheimer/alpine-golang-make-onbuild
+MAINTAINER  The Prometheus Authors <prometheus-developers@googlegroups.com>
+
+EXPOSE      9115

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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 ## Building and running
 
+### Local Build
+
     make
     ./blackbox_exporter <flags>
 
 Visiting [http://localhost:9115/probe?target=google.com&module=http_2xx](http://localhost:9115/probe?target=google.com&module=http_2xx)
 will return metrics for a HTTP probe against google.com.
 
+### Building with Docker
+
+    docker build -t blackbox_exporter .
+    docker run -d -p 9115:9115 --name blackbox_exporter -v `pwd`:/config blackbox_exporter -config.file=/config/blackbox.yml
+
 ## Configuration
 
 A configuration showing all options is below: