diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bee9c9cc4f..6a38daf612 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 /solana-release.tar.bz2
 /solana-metrics/
 /solana-metrics.tar.bz2
-/target/
+**/target/
 /test-ledger/
 
 **/*.rs.bk
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 5ee418f4a8..aa71e4734a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "jito-protos/protos"]
 	path = jito-protos/protos
 	url = org-87542516@github.com:jito-labs/mev-protos-priv.git
+[submodule "solana-accountsdb-connector"]
+	path = solana-accountsdb-connector
+	url = org-87542516@github.com:jito-labs/solana-accountsdb-connector.git
diff --git a/dev/Dockerfile b/dev/Dockerfile
index ffb6a85f0f..0f3c3e38f8 100644
--- a/dev/Dockerfile
+++ b/dev/Dockerfile
@@ -38,4 +38,7 @@ ENV CI_COMMIT=$ci_commit
 RUN --mount=type=cache,mode=0777,target=/solana/target \
     --mount=type=cache,mode=0777,target=/usr/local/cargo/registry \
     --mount=type=cache,mode=0777,target=/usr/local/cargo/git \
-    cargo build --release && cp target/release/solana* ./docker-output
+    cargo build --release && cp target/release/solana* ./docker-output && \
+    cargo build --release --manifest-path solana-accountsdb-connector/Cargo.toml && \
+    cp solana-accountsdb-connector/target/release/libsolana* ./docker-output
+
diff --git a/scripts/increment-cargo-version.sh b/scripts/increment-cargo-version.sh
index a4bcfa5918..c354b5d023 100755
--- a/scripts/increment-cargo-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/increment-cargo-version.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ ignores=(
   node_modules
   jito-programs
   anchor
+  solana-accountsdb-connector
 )
 
 not_paths=()
diff --git a/solana-accountsdb-connector b/solana-accountsdb-connector
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..97a65a16d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solana-accountsdb-connector
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 97a65a16d8086f993cf9aa7f67b7c51ab28380bc