diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 90c8f3970..d7a4a0c5d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ list:
 	@echo "  * docker-clean - delete created docker container (but not pre-downloaded data for it)"
 	@echo "  * docs         - generate \"site\"/ directory with documentation in a form of static html files using ReadTheDocs framework and $(MKDOCS_YML) local config file"
 	@echo "  * docs-deploy  - generate & deploy docs online to gh-pages branch of current github repo"
+	@echo "  * tests        - run set of checks, linters & tests (equivalent of github CI IronOS project settings for push trigger)"
 	@echo "  * clean-build  - delete generated files & dirs produced during builds EXCEPT generated docker container image"
 	@echo "  * clean-full   - delete generated files & dirs produced during builds INCLUDING generated docker container image"
 	@echo ""
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ list:
 	@echo " $$ make firmware-LANG_ID model=MODEL_ID"
 	@echo
 	@echo "Full list of current supported IDs:"
-	@echo "  * LANG_ID: BE BG CS DA DE EL EN ES FI FR HR HU IT JA_JP LT NB NL_BE NL PL PT RO RU SK SL SR_CYRL SR_LATN SV TR UK VI YUE_HK ZH_CN ZH_TW"
+	@echo "  * LANG_ID: $(shell echo "`ls Translations/ | grep -e "^translation_.*.json$$" | sed -e 's,^translation_,,g; s,\.json$$,,g; ' | tr '\n' ' '`")"
 	@echo "  * MODEL_ID: TS100 TS101 TS80 TS80P MHP30 Pinecil Pinecilv2 S60"
 	@echo
 	@echo "For example, to make a local build of IronOS firmware for TS100 with English language, just type:"
@@ -89,9 +90,6 @@ list:
 	@echo " $$ make firmware-EN model=TS100"
 	@echo
 
-# bash one-liner to generate langs for "make list":
-# echo "`ls Translations/ | grep -e "^translation_.*.json$" | sed -e 's,^translation_,,g; s,\.json$,,g; ' | tr '\n' ' '`"
-
 # detect availability of docker
 docker-check:
 ifeq ($(DOCKER_BIN),)
@@ -121,6 +119,44 @@ docs: $(MKDOCS_YML)  Documentation/*  Documentation/Flashing/*  Documentation/im
 docs-deploy: $(MKDOCS_YML)  Documentation/*  Documentation/Flashing/*  Documentation/images/*
 	$(MKDOCS)  gh-deploy  -f $(MKDOCS_YML)  -d ../site
 
+# routine check for autogenerated Documentation/README.md
+test-md:
+	@echo ""
+	@echo "---- Checking REAMDE.md... ----"
+	@echo ""
+	@/bin/sh  ./scripts/deploy.sh  docs_readme
+
+# shell style & linter check (github CI version of shellcheck is more recent than alpine one so the latter may not catch some policies)
+test-sh:
+	@echo ""
+	@echo "---- Checking shell scripts... ----"
+	@echo ""
+	@for f in `find  ./scripts  -type f  -iname "*.sh"  ! -name "flash_ts100_linux.sh"` ; do shellcheck "$${f}"; done;
+
+# python-related tests & checks
+test-py:
+	@echo ""
+	@echo "---- Checking python code... ----"
+	@echo ""
+	flake8  Translations
+	black  --check  Translations
+	@make  -C source/  Objects/host/brieflz/libbrieflz.so
+	./Translations/brieflz_test.py
+	./Translations/make_translation_test.py
+
+# clang-format check for C/C++ code style
+test-ccpp:
+	@echo ""
+	@echo "---- Checking C/C++ code... ----"
+	@echo ""
+	make  -C source/  clean  check-style
+
+# meta target for tests & checks based on .github/workflows/push
+tests: test-md  test-sh  test-py  test-ccpp
+	@echo ""
+	@echo "All tests & checks have been completed successfully."
+	@echo ""
+
 # pass-through target for Makefile inside source/ dir
 %:
 	make  -C source/  $@
@@ -135,5 +171,4 @@ clean-build:
 clean-full: clean-build  docker-clean
 
 # phony targets
-.PHONY:  help  list  docker-check  docker-shell  docker-build  docker-clean  docs  docs-deploy  clean-build  clean-full
-
+.PHONY:  help  list  docker-check  docker-shell  docker-build  docker-clean  docs  docs-deploy  test-md  test-sh  test-py  test-ccpp  tests  clean-build  clean-full
diff --git a/scripts/IronOS.Dockerfile b/scripts/IronOS.Dockerfile
index c15fb2b68..93cb54643 100644
--- a/scripts/IronOS.Dockerfile
+++ b/scripts/IronOS.Dockerfile
@@ -6,21 +6,22 @@ LABEL maintainer="Ben V. Brown <ralim@ralimtek.com>"
 # Default current dir when container starts
 WORKDIR /build/ironos
 
-# Installing the two compilers (ARM & RISCV), python3 & pip, clang tools:
+# Installing the two compilers (ARM & RISCV), python3 & pip, clang tools, etc.:
 ## - compilers: gcc-*, newlib-*
 ## - python3: py*, black (required to check Python code formatting)
 ## - misc: findutils, make, git, diffutils
 ## - musl-dev (required for the multi lang firmwares)
 ## - clang (required for clang-format to check C++ code formatting)
+## - shellcheck (to check sh scripts)
 
 ARG APK_COMPS="gcc-riscv-none-elf gcc-arm-none-eabi newlib-riscv-none-elf \
                newlib-arm-none-eabi"
 ARG APK_PYTHON="python3 py3-pip black"
 ARG APK_MISC="findutils make git diffutils"
-ARG APK_DEV="musl-dev clang bash clang-extra-tools"
+ARG APK_DEV="musl-dev clang bash clang-extra-tools shellcheck"
 
-# PIP packages
-ARG PIP_PKGS='bdflib'
+# PIP packages to check & test Python code
+ARG PIP_PKGS='bdflib flake8'
 
 # Install system packages using alpine package manager
 RUN apk add --no-cache ${APK_COMPS} ${APK_PYTHON} ${APK_MISC} ${APK_DEV}
@@ -31,5 +32,5 @@ RUN python3 -m pip install ${PIP_PKGS}
 # Git trust to avoid related warning
 RUN git config --global --add safe.directory /build/ironos
 
-COPY . /build/ironos
-COPY ./scripts/ci /build/ci
+COPY  .  /build/ironos
+COPY  ./scripts/ci  /build/ci