diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 85d2c462..96944e6e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/gflags"]
 	path = third_party/gflags
 	url = https://github.com/gflags/gflags
+[submodule "third_party/yaml-cpp"]
+	path = third_party/yaml-cpp
+	url = https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0d59d4bd..fe8e0ee2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,5 +22,11 @@ add_subdirectory(third_party/gflags EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(third_party/cctz EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(third_party/abseil-cpp EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
+option(YAML_CPP_BUILD_TESTS "" OFF)
+add_subdirectory(third_party/yaml-cpp EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+target_include_directories(yaml-cpp PUBLIC
+	$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/third_party/yaml-cpp/include>
+	)
+
 add_subdirectory(lib)
 add_subdirectory(tools)
diff --git a/third_party/yaml-cpp b/third_party/yaml-cpp
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..86ae3a5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/yaml-cpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 86ae3a5aa7e2109d849b2df89176d6432a35265d