diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7ea1eff..6dd23ad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ We have php5-curl dependency, if you have issues related to curl_init() please i
 sudo apt-get install php5-curl
 ```
 
+## Alternative Installation (using phar)
+
+Setup codacy-coverage as phar, you can simply download a pre-compiled and ready-to-use version as a phar to any directory. Simply download the latest `codacy-coverage.phar` file from our [releases page](https://github.com/codacy/php-codacy-coverage/releases):
+
+[Latest release](https://github.com/codacy/php-codacy-coverage/releases/latest)
+
+That's it already.
+
 ## Updating Codacy
 
 To update Codacy, you will need your project API token. You can find the token in Project -> Settings -> Integrations -> Project API.
diff --git a/box.json b/box.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3c06a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/box.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+    "directories": [
+        "src",
+        "vendor"
+    ],
+    "main": "bin/codacycoverage",
+    "output": "build/codacy-coverage.phar",
+    "stub": true
+}
diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index ba90e04..e0919d6 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -6,8 +6,18 @@ dependencies:
   pre:
     - curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
     - php composer.phar install -n
+    - go get github.com/aktau/github-release
+    - wget -O box.phar https://github.com/box-project/box2/releases/download/2.7.5/box-2.7.5.phar
 
 test:
   post:
     - php vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-clover build/coverage/xml tests
     - php bin/codacycoverage clover build/coverage/xml
+
+deployment:
+  release:
+    tag: /[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)*/
+    commands:
+      - php -d phar.readonly=0 box.phar build
+      - git config user.name $CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME
+      - github-release upload --user $CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME --repo $CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME --tag $CIRCLE_TAG --name codacy-coverage.phar --file build/codacy-coverage.phar
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Codacy/Coverage/Util/CodacyApiClient.php b/src/Codacy/Coverage/Util/CodacyApiClient.php
index 0f1fc27..8462dd2 100644
--- a/src/Codacy/Coverage/Util/CodacyApiClient.php
+++ b/src/Codacy/Coverage/Util/CodacyApiClient.php
@@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ function __construct($baseUrl, $projectToken)
      */
     public function sendCoverage($commit, $data)
     {
+        $tempCertFile = $this->dumpCertificateBundle();
+
         $url = $this->baseUrl . "/2.0/coverage/" . $commit . "/php";
 
         $curl = curl_init($url);
+
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         curl_setopt(
@@ -37,12 +40,14 @@ public function sendCoverage($commit, $data)
                 "project_token: " . $this->projectToken
             )
         );
-        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(__FILE__) . '/cacert.pem'); 
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, $tempCertFile); 
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
         curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
 
         $json_response = curl_exec($curl);
 
+        unlink($tempCertFile);
+
         $status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
 
         if ($status < 200 || $status > 201) {
@@ -63,4 +68,18 @@ public function sendCoverage($commit, $data)
             return $json['error'];
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Store certificate bundle to temporary file to be available when used within phar context
+     * 
+     * @return string Full qualified path to temporary file
+     */
+    protected function dumpCertificateBundle()
+    {
+        $tempCertFile = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'cacert');
+
+        copy(dirname(__FILE__) . '/cacert.pem', $tempCertFile);
+
+        return $tempCertFile;
+    }
 }