diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index d9d73162..9a5b1fb5 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@
 [submodule "thirdparty/ecaludp/ecaludp"]
 	path = thirdparty/ecaludp/ecaludp
 	url = https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecaludp.git
+[submodule "thirdparty/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp"]
+	path = thirdparty/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp
+	url = https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp
diff --git a/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/build-yaml-cpp.cmake b/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/build-yaml-cpp.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2f89ba0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/build-yaml-cpp.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+include_guard(GLOBAL)
+
+set(YAML_CPP_BUILD_TESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "My option" FORCE)
+set(YAML_MSVC_SHARED_RT ON CACHE BOOL "My option" FORCE)
+set(YAML_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF CACHE BOOL "My option" FORCE)
+set(YAML_CPP_BUILD_TOOLS OFF CACHE BOOL "My option" FORCE)
+set(YAML_CPP_BUILD_CONTRIB OFF CACHE BOOL "My option" FORCE)
+add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/yaml-cpp thirdparty/yaml-cpp EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL SYSTEM)
+set_property(TARGET yaml-cpp PROPERTY FOLDER thirdparty/yaml-cpp)
diff --git a/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/compatibility-yaml-cpp.cmake b/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/compatibility-yaml-cpp.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4716ad52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/compatibility-yaml-cpp.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Create targets to be compatible with yaml-cpp < 0.8.0
+macro(yaml_cpp_create_compatibility_targets)
+  if (NOT TARGET yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp AND TARGET yaml-cpp)
+    # ALIASing a imported non-global library requires CMake 3.18 so we do this
+    add_library(yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp INTERFACE IMPORTED)
+    target_link_libraries(yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp INTERFACE yaml-cpp)
+  endif()
+endmacro()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp b/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..9f7babc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thirdparty/yaml-cpp/yaml-cpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 9f7babc3ff000d1a8a567479c1b5d309658d8b7f