diff --git a/docs/dev/04-public-api.md b/docs/dev/04-public-api.md
index 17e6b8115..980c1bebb 100644
--- a/docs/dev/04-public-api.md
+++ b/docs/dev/04-public-api.md
@@ -134,6 +134,20 @@ stopper.stop({port: 9876}, function(exitCode) {
 })
 ```
 
+## karma.config.parseConfig([configFilePath], [cliOptions])
+
+This function will load given config file and returns a filled config object. 
+This can be useful if you want to integrate karma into another tool and want to load
+the karma config while honoring the karma defaults. For example, the [stryker-karma-runner](https://github.com/stryker-mutator/stryker-karma-runner)
+uses this to load your karma configuration and use that in the stryker configuration.
+
+```javascript
+const cfg = require('karma').config;
+const path = require('path');
+// Read karma.conf.js, but override port with 1337
+const karmaConfig = cfg.parseConfig(path.resolve('./karma.conf.js'), { port: 1337 } ); 
+```
+
 ## Callback function notes
 
 - If there is an error, the error code will be provided as the second parameter to the error callback.
diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index d894a444b..4cf7a8bfb 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ var Server = require('./server')
 var runner = require('./runner')
 var stopper = require('./stopper')
 var launcher = require('./launcher')
+var cfg = require('./config')
 
 // TODO: remove in 1.0
 var oldServer = {
@@ -24,5 +25,6 @@ module.exports = {
   runner: runner,
   stopper: stopper,
   launcher: launcher,
+  config: { parseConfig: cfg.parseConfig }, // lets start with only opening up the `parseConfig` api
   server: oldServer
 }
diff --git a/test/unit/index.spec.js b/test/unit/index.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ab1d979e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/index.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+var cfg = require('../../lib/config')
+
+describe('index', () => {
+  var index = require('../../lib/index')
+
+  it('should expose the `config` object', () => {
+    expect(index.config.parseConfig).to.be.eq(cfg.parseConfig)
+  })
+})