diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f0d253c2..9976f126 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,26 @@
 # About this Repo
 
-This is the Git repo of the official Docker image for [nginx](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/nginx/). See the
-Hub page for the full readme on how to use the Docker image and for information
-regarding contributing and issues.
+This is a fork of the Git repo of the official Docker image for [nginx](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/nginx/)
+(who knows better how to build nginx??). See the Hub page for the full readme on how to use the Docker image
+and for information regarding contributing and issues.
+
+We (ProdataKey), just need it to compile nginx with native modules we need. We plan to maintain this in step with mainline.
+
+Ultimate goal would be to make adding a native code module to docker-nginx simply configurable and commit upstream.
+Adding native modules is pretty painful right now:
+
+- add OS deps
+- pull code
+- modify nginx configure `--add-module /usr/src/modulepath`.
+- modify nginx.conf
+
+
+This must currently be done in each of the 8 individual $os/$os-perl branches of the repo (or just the one you use! mainline alpine here). 
+
+Currently Added Modules:
+
+- [nginx-vts](https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts)
+
 
 The full readme is generated over in [docker-library/docs](https://github.com/docker-library/docs),
 specificially in [docker-library/docs/nginx](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/nginx).
diff --git a/mainline/alpine/Dockerfile b/mainline/alpine/Dockerfile
index c1b42a5c..3b83fc91 100644
--- a/mainline/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/mainline/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -49,11 +49,13 @@ RUN GPG_KEYS=B0F4253373F8F6F510D42178520A9993A1C052F8 \
 		--with-compat \
 		--with-file-aio \
 		--with-http_v2_module \
+		--add-module=/usr/src/nginx-module-vts \
 	" \
 	&& addgroup -S nginx \
 	&& adduser -D -S -h /var/cache/nginx -s /sbin/nologin -G nginx nginx \
 	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
 		gcc \
+		git \
 		libc-dev \
 		make \
 		openssl-dev \
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ RUN GPG_KEYS=B0F4253373F8F6F510D42178520A9993A1C052F8 \
 	&& mkdir -p /usr/src \
 	&& tar -zxC /usr/src -f nginx.tar.gz \
 	&& rm nginx.tar.gz \
+	&& git clone git://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts.git /usr/src/nginx-module-vts \
 	&& cd /usr/src/nginx-$NGINX_VERSION \
 	&& ./configure $CONFIG --with-debug \
 	&& make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \
diff --git a/mainline/alpine/nginx.conf b/mainline/alpine/nginx.conf
index e4bad8db..5b7ac159 100644
--- a/mainline/alpine/nginx.conf
+++ b/mainline/alpine/nginx.conf
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ http {
     include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
     default_type  application/octet-stream;
 
+	# enable VTS module
+	vhost_traffic_status_zone;
+
     log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                       '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                       '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
diff --git a/mainline/alpine/nginx.vh.default.conf b/mainline/alpine/nginx.vh.default.conf
index 299c622a..63aa6b6b 100644
--- a/mainline/alpine/nginx.vh.default.conf
+++ b/mainline/alpine/nginx.vh.default.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ server {
     listen       80;
     server_name  localhost;
 
+	# expose VTS HTML output at http://localhost/status
+	location /status {
+		vhost_traffic_status_display;
+		vhost_traffic_status_display_format html;
+	}
+
     #charset koi8-r;
     #access_log  /var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;