diff --git a/.cmakelintrc b/.cmakelintrc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d70cdd7c9230
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.cmakelintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+# build and install are separated so changes to build don't invalidate
+# the whole docker cache for the image
+
+# --filter= options: https://pypi.org/project/cmakelint/
+# "-" disable option
+# "+" enable option
+filter=-convention/filename,-linelength,-package/consistency,-readability/logic,-readability/mixedcase,-readability/wonkycase,-syntax,-whitespace/eol,+whitespace/extra,-whitespace/indent,-whitespace/mismatch,-whitespace/newline,-whitespace/tabs
diff --git a/ci/docker/install/requirements b/ci/docker/install/requirements
index 21f10b92cba8..b034cb5d7483 100644
--- a/ci/docker/install/requirements
+++ b/ci/docker/install/requirements
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ h5py==2.10.0
 # Array API Standardization requirements
 hypothesis==6.14.0
 
+# Static code checker for CMake files
+cmakelint==1.4.1
+
 # Prospector - Python Static Analysis
 prospector==1.5.1
 
diff --git a/ci/docker/runtime_functions.sh b/ci/docker/runtime_functions.sh
index 0f7913557935..b97b82387ec4 100755
--- a/ci/docker/runtime_functions.sh
+++ b/ci/docker/runtime_functions.sh
@@ -703,11 +703,18 @@ sanity_check() {
     set -ex
     sanity_clang
     sanity_license
+    sanity_cmakelint
     sanity_tutorial
     sanity_python_prospector
     sanity_cpp
 }
 
+sanity_cmakelint() {
+    set -exu
+    
+    git ls-files -z -- bootstrap '*.cmake' '*.cmake.in' '*CMakeLists.txt' | grep -E -z -v '^(3rdparty)|cmake/Modules/|cmake/upstream/' | xargs -0 cmakelint --config=.cmakelintrc --quiet
+}
+
 sanity_tutorial() {
     set -ex
     export DMLC_LOG_STACK_TRACE_DEPTH=100