diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..895609d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+.git
+docker-compose.yml
+laravel
+tests/laravel
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca79ca5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 0c671af..7f3486f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -3,62 +3,96 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      legacy:
+        description: 'Also build legacy images (7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1)'
+        required: false
+        default: false
+        type: boolean
+
+env:
+  LATEST_PHP: "8.5"
+
 jobs:
   docker:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        php: ["8.2", "8.3", "8.4", "8.5"]
+        variant: ["debian", "alpine"]
     steps:
-      - 
-        name: Set up QEMU
-        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
-      - 
-        name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
-      - 
-        name: Login to DockerHub
-        uses: docker/login-action@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v4
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
+      - name: Login to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v4
         with:
           username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
           password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.1
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
+      - name: Compute tags
+        id: meta
+        run: |
+          image="${{ vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE }}"
+          if [ "${{ matrix.variant }}" = "alpine" ]; then
+            file=./src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine
+            tags="${image}:${{ matrix.php }}-alpine"
+            [ "${{ matrix.php }}" = "${LATEST_PHP}" ] && tags="${tags},${image}:alpine"
+          else
+            file=./src/docker/Dockerfile
+            tags="${image}:${{ matrix.php }}"
+            [ "${{ matrix.php }}" = "${LATEST_PHP}" ] && tags="${tags},${image}:latest"
+          fi
+          echo "file=${file}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "tags=${tags}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+      - name: Build and push ${{ matrix.php }} ${{ matrix.variant }}
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
         with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
+          context: .
+          file: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.file }}
           push: true
+          pull: true
           platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
           build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.1
-          tags: "${{ vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE }}:8.1"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.2
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
+            phpVersion=${{ matrix.php }}
+          tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
+          cache-from: type=gha,scope=${{ matrix.php }}-${{ matrix.variant }}
+          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max,scope=${{ matrix.php }}-${{ matrix.variant }}
+
+  legacy:
+    if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.legacy }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - { tag: "7.2", phpVersion: "7.2", file: ./src/docker/7.2/Dockerfile, platforms: linux/amd64 }
+          - { tag: "7.3", phpVersion: "7.3", file: ./src/docker/7.3/Dockerfile, platforms: linux/amd64 }
+          - { tag: "7.4", phpVersion: "7.4", file: ./src/docker/7.4/Dockerfile, platforms: linux/amd64 }
+          - { tag: "8.0", phpVersion: "8.0", file: ./src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile, platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64" }
+          - { tag: "8.1", phpVersion: "8.1", file: ./src/docker/Dockerfile, platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64" }
+          - { tag: "8.1-alpine", phpVersion: "8.1", file: ./src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine, platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64" }
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v4
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
+      - name: Login to DockerHub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v4
         with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.2
-          tags: "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.2"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.3
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Build and push ${{ matrix.tag }}
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
         with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
+          context: .
+          file: ${{ matrix.file }}
           push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
+          platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
           build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.3
-          tags: |
-           "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.3"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.4
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.4
-          tags: |
-           "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.4"
-           "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:latest"
+            phpVersion=${{ matrix.phpVersion }}
+          tags: ${{ vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE }}:${{ matrix.tag }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/manual-build.yml b/.github/workflows/manual-build.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0610d60..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/manual-build.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-name: Manual-build
-on:
-  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      docker_tag:
-        description: 'Docker tag'
-        required: true
-        default: 'latest' 
-        type: string
-env:
-  BUILDKIT_IMAGE: jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm
-jobs:
-  docker:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - 
-        name: Set up QEMU
-        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
-      - 
-        name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
-      - 
-        name: Login to DockerHub
-        uses: docker/login-action@v2
-        with:
-          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
-      -
-        name: Build and push 7.2
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/7.2/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          tags: "${{env.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:7.2"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 7.3
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/7.3/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          tags: "${{env.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:7.3"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 7.4
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/7.4/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          tags: "${{env.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:7.4"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.0
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          tags: "${{env.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.0"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.1
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.1
-          tags: "${{ vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE }}:8.1"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.2
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.2
-          tags: "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.2"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.3
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.3
-          tags: |
-           "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.3"
-           "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:latest"
-      -
-        name: Build and push 8.4 RC
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v3
-        with:
-          file: "./src/docker/Dockerfile"
-          push: true
-          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
-          build-args: |
-            phpVersion=8.4.0RC4
-          tags: |
-           "${{vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE}}:8.4.0RC4"      
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index d909d37..00a1136 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -1,53 +1,31 @@
-name: Test
+name: Tests
 on:
   push:
+  pull_request:
+
 jobs:
   integration:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        php: ["8.2", "8.3", "8.4", "8.5"]
+        variant: ["debian", "alpine"]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-          # Build the Docker image
-      - name: Build Docker Image
-        run: |
-            docker buildx build -f src/docker/Dockerfile --build-arg phpVersion=8.4 -t ${{ vars.BUILDKIT_IMAGE }}:latest --load .
-      - name: Verify Docker images
-        run: |
-            docker images
-      - name: Create Laravel project
-        run: |
-         composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel
-      - name: Fix Permission
-        run: chmod -R 777 ./laravel/storage
-      - name: Run docker-compose
-        run: 
-          cp ./tests/compose.yaml compose.yaml &&
-          docker compose -f "compose.yaml" up -d
-      - name: Create script.js for K6 test
-        run: |
-          touch script.js && cat > script.js <<EOF
-          import http from 'k6/http';
-          import { sleep } from 'k6';
-      
-          export default function () {
-            //Link
-            http.get('http://localhost');
-          }
-          EOF
-      - name: Install k6
-        run: |
-            curl https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/download/v0.47.0/k6-v0.47.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz -L | tar xvz --strip-components 1
-      - name: Test with K6
-        run: |
-           ./k6 run script.js
-      - name: Test with curl
-        run: |
-            curl -i http://localhost
-      - name: Waiting for database connection
-        run: |
-            while ! docker exec mysql mysql --user=root --password=password -e "status" &> /dev/null ; do
-              echo "Waiting for database connection..."
-              sleep 5
-            done
-      - name: Laravel database migration test
-        run: |
-          docker exec nginx-php-fpm php artisan migrate
\ No newline at end of file
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
+      - name: Build Docker image
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
+        with:
+          context: .
+          file: ${{ matrix.variant == 'alpine' && './src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine' || './src/docker/Dockerfile' }}
+          load: true
+          build-args: |
+            phpVersion=${{ matrix.php }}
+          tags: nginx-php-fpm:test
+          cache-from: type=gha,scope=${{ matrix.php }}-${{ matrix.variant }}
+      - name: Run integration tests
+        env:
+          IMAGE: nginx-php-fpm:test
+        run: ./tests/integration.sh
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 94d3c9c..1f72e37 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.DS_Store
 /.history
 laravel
-docker-compose.yml
\ No newline at end of file
+docker-compose.yml
+tests/modules.txt
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 478ed80..a9ebb53 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,41 @@
 IMAGE_NAME?=jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm
+PHP_VERSIONS?=8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5
+LATEST_PHP?=8.5
+
 .PHONY: all
 all: build
+
 ##@ Build
 .PHONY: build
-build: build-81 build-82 build-83 build-84
-.PHONY: build-80
-build-80:
-	 docker build --build-arg phpVersion=8.0 -f src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:8.0 .
-.PHONY: build-81
-build-81:
-	 docker build --build-arg phpVersion=8.1 -f src/docker/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:8.1 .
-.PHONY: build-82
-build-82:
-	 docker build --build-arg phpVersion=8.2 -f src/docker/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:8.2 .
-.PHONY: build-83
-build-83:
-	 docker build --build-arg phpVersion=8.3 -f src/docker/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:8.3 .
-.PHONY: build-84
-build-84:
-	 docker build --build-arg phpVersion=8.4 -f src/docker/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:8.4 .
+build: $(addprefix build-,$(PHP_VERSIONS))
+
+.PHONY: build-alpine
+build-alpine: $(addsuffix -alpine,$(addprefix build-,$(PHP_VERSIONS)))
+
+.PHONY: build-latest
+build-latest: build-$(LATEST_PHP) build-$(LATEST_PHP)-alpine
+	docker tag ${IMAGE_NAME}:$(LATEST_PHP) ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest
+	docker tag ${IMAGE_NAME}:$(LATEST_PHP)-alpine ${IMAGE_NAME}:alpine
+
+# Legacy images (7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0). PHP 8.1 is legacy too but uses the
+# shared Dockerfiles: make build-8.1 / make build-8.1-alpine
+.PHONY: build-7.2 build-7.3 build-7.4 build-8.0
+build-7.2 build-7.3 build-7.4 build-8.0: build-%:
+	docker build -f src/docker/$*/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:$* .
+
+.PHONY: build-%-alpine
+build-%-alpine:
+	docker build --build-arg phpVersion=$* -f src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:$*-alpine .
+
+.PHONY: build-%
+build-%:
+	docker build --build-arg phpVersion=$* -f src/docker/Dockerfile -t ${IMAGE_NAME}:$* .
+
+##@ Test
+.PHONY: test
+test: build-$(LATEST_PHP)
+	IMAGE=${IMAGE_NAME}:$(LATEST_PHP) ./tests/integration.sh
+
+.PHONY: test-alpine
+test-alpine: build-$(LATEST_PHP)-alpine
+	IMAGE=${IMAGE_NAME}:$(LATEST_PHP)-alpine ./tests/integration.sh
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d647524..b759839 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ A **ready-to-use container** designed for running PHP-based applications, includ
 
 #### **Features**  
 - **PHP Application Support**: Optimized to run Laravel or any PHP-based applications.  
+- **Nginx and PHP-FPM in one container**, managed by Supervisord.  
 - **Integrated Extensions**:  
   - **Database**: MySQL and PostgreSQL.  
   - **Caching**: Redis and Memcached.  
   - **Messaging**: Kafka for event-driven architecture.  
-  - **Task Scheduling**: Laravel Scheduler and Cron jobs support.  
-- **Custom Configuration**: Pre-configured with sensible defaults, allowing seamless customization.  
-- **Event Handling**: Support for advanced event-driven processes.  
+  - **Task Scheduling**: Laravel Scheduler and Queue Worker started automatically.  
+- **Custom Configuration**: Pre-configured with sensible defaults, tunable through environment variables.  
+- **Debian and Alpine variants**, multi-arch (`linux/amd64`, `linux/arm64`).  
+- **Production-ready**: healthcheck, graceful shutdown, OPcache, logs on stdout, `supervisorctl` support.  
 - **Optimized for Microservices**: Built with modern PHP microservices in mind.  
 
 This image is ideal for developers looking for a streamlined, high-performance solution to deploy PHP applications with essential tools already integrated.
@@ -26,35 +28,47 @@ This image is ideal for developers looking for a streamlined, high-performance s
 - [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm)  
 - [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm)  
 
-## **Supported PHP Versions**  
-- 8.4  
-- 8.3  
-- 8.2  
-- 8.1  
-- 8.0  
-- 7.4  
-- 7.2  
+## **Supported PHP Versions & Tags**
 
-## **Specifications**  
-This Docker image comes pre-installed with the following:  
-- **PHP Extensions**:  
-  - Composer  
-  - OpenSSL  
-  - XML  
-  - PDO  
-  - Rdkafka  
-  - Redis  
-  - Mbstring  
-  - PCNTL  
-  - ZIP  
-  - GD  
-  - BCMath  
-  - Memcached  
+| PHP | Debian tag | Alpine tag |
+|-----|------------|------------|
+| 8.5 | `8.5`, `latest` | `8.5-alpine`, `alpine` |
+| 8.4 | `8.4` | `8.4-alpine` |
+| 8.3 | `8.3` | `8.3-alpine` |
+| 8.2 | `8.2` | `8.2-alpine` |
 
-- **Additional Features**:  
-  - Laravel Cron Jobs & Scheduler  
-  - Supervisord  
-  - Node.js & NPM  
+Legacy images (PHP is end-of-life, no longer rebuilt automatically or tested): `8.1`, `8.1-alpine`, `8.0`, `7.4`, `7.3`, `7.2`.
+
+---
+
+## **Specifications**
+
+### **PHP Extensions**
+- Composer 2  
+- OpenSSL  
+- XML  
+- PDO (MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite)  
+- Rdkafka  
+- Redis  
+- Mbstring  
+- Intl  
+- Exif  
+- PCNTL  
+- ZIP  
+- GD (FreeType, JPEG, PNG, WebP)  
+- BCMath  
+- Memcached  
+- Opcache  
+
+### **Additional Features**
+- Nginx  
+- Laravel Scheduler  
+- Laravel Queue Worker  
+- Supervisord  
+- Node.js 24 LTS and NPM  
+- Git, Zip/Unzip, SQLite CLI  
+
+---
 
 ## **Basic Usage with Docker Compose**
 
@@ -62,17 +76,14 @@ This Docker image comes pre-installed with the following:
 ```yaml
 services:
   app:
-    image: jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:8.3
+    image: jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:8.5
     container_name: app
     restart: unless-stopped
-    user: www-data # Optional for production
     volumes:
       # Project root
       - ./src:/var/www/html
     ports:
       - "80:80"
-    networks:
-      - default
 ```
 
 ### **Commands**  
@@ -84,27 +95,27 @@ docker compose up -d
 
 #### Create a new Laravel project:
 ```sh
-docker compose exec app composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel .
+docker compose exec -u www-data app composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel .
 ```
 
 #### Generate application key:
 ```sh
-docker compose exec app php artisan key:generate
+docker compose exec -u www-data app php artisan key:generate
 ```
 
 #### Create a storage symlink:
 ```sh
-docker compose exec app php artisan storage:link
+docker compose exec -u www-data app php artisan storage:link
 ```
 
 #### Fix storage and cache permissions:
 ```sh
-docker compose exec app chmod -R 777 storage bootstrap/cache
+docker compose exec app chown -R www-data:www-data storage bootstrap/cache
 ```
 
 #### Run Laravel migrations:
 ```sh
-docker compose exec app php artisan migrate
+docker compose exec -u www-data app php artisan migrate
 ```
 
 #### Access the container shell:
@@ -112,37 +123,91 @@ docker compose exec app php artisan migrate
 docker exec -it app bash
 ```
 
+#### Run a one-off command (Nginx and PHP-FPM are not started):
+```sh
+docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/var/www/html" jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm composer install
+```
+
+#### Restart the queue workers after a deployment:
+```sh
+docker compose exec app supervisorctl restart Laravel-worker:*
+```
+
 ---
 
-## **Advanced Nginx PHP-FPM Setup**
+## **Environment Variables**
+
+### Nginx
+
+| Variable | Default | Description |
+|----------|---------|-------------|
+| `DOCUMENT_ROOT` | `$APP_DIR/public` if it exists, otherwise `$APP_DIR` | Nginx web root |
+| `DOMAIN` | `_` | Nginx `server_name` |
+| `CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE` | `15M` | Nginx `client_max_body_size` |
+
+### Laravel
+
+| Variable | Default | Description |
+|----------|---------|-------------|
+| `LARAVEL_SCHEDULER_ENABLED` | `true` | Run `php artisan schedule:run` every minute |
+| `LARAVEL_QUEUE_WORKER_ENABLED` | `true` | Run `php artisan queue:work` |
+| `LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS` | `--sleep=3 --tries=3` | Options passed to `queue:work` (e.g. `redis --queue=high,default`) |
+| `LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER` | `1` | Number of queue worker processes |
+| `APP_DIR` | `/var/www/html` | Application directory (where `artisan` is looked up) |
+
+The scheduler and queue worker are only started when an `artisan` file is found in `APP_DIR`.
+
+### PHP
+
+| Variable | Default |
+|----------|---------|
+| `PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT` | `256M` |
+| `PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE` | `80M` |
+| `PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE` | `80M` |
+| `PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME` | `30` |
+| `PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE` | `UTC` |
+| `PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS` | `Off` |
+
+### OPcache
+
+| Variable | Default | Description |
+|----------|---------|-------------|
+| `PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE` | `1` | |
+| `PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI` | `0` | |
+| `PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION` | `512` | MB |
+| `PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES` | `50000` | |
+| `PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS` | `0` | Set to `1` in development so code changes are picked up |
+| `PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ` | `0` | |
+
+### PHP-FPM
+
+| Variable | Default |
+|----------|---------|
+| `PHP_FPM_PM` | `dynamic` |
+| `PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_CHILDREN` | `20` |
+| `PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS` | `2` |
+| `PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS` | `1` |
+| `PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS` | `3` |
+| `PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS` | `500` |
+
+Container environment variables (e.g. `DB_HOST`, `APP_KEY`) are passed to PHP-FPM workers (`clear_env = no`).
+
+### Development example
 
-### **Extended `docker-compose.yml` Example**
 ```yaml
-version: '3'
 services:
   app:
-    image: jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm
-    container_name: app
-    restart: unless-stopped
+    image: jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:8.5
     ports:
       - "80:80"
-    volumes:
-      # Project root
-      - ./:/var/www/html
-      - ~/.ssh:/root/.ssh # Use private CVS if needed
-      # Optional custom PHP config
-      # - ./php.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/php.ini
     environment:
-      - APP_ENV=development # or production
-      - LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=2 # Optional: Queue worker processes
-      # - CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=20M # Optional
-      # - DOMAIN=example.com # Optional
-      - DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html # Optional
-```
-
-### **Default Web Root**  
-```
-/var/www/html
+      PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+      PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS: "On"
+      CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE: 20M
+      LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS: "redis --sleep=3 --tries=3"
+      LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER: 2
+    volumes:
+      - ./:/var/www/html
 ```
 
 ---
@@ -151,7 +216,7 @@ services:
 
 ### **Dockerfile**
 ```Dockerfile
-FROM jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:8.3
+FROM jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:8.5
 # Copy Laravel project files
 COPY . /var/www/html
 # Storage Volume
@@ -161,23 +226,32 @@ WORKDIR /var/www/html
 
 # Fix permissions
 RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
-
-USER www-data
 ```
 
 ---
 
 ## **Custom Nginx Configuration**
 
-To enable custom Nginx configurations, use the following files:  
-- `/var/www/html/conf/nginx/nginx.conf`  
-- `/var/www/html/conf/nginx/nginx-site.conf`  
+To use custom Nginx configurations, add the following files to your project:  
+- `conf/nginx/nginx.conf`: replaces `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf`  
+- `conf/nginx/nginx-site.conf`: replaces the generated server block. PHP-FPM listens on `127.0.0.1:9000`.  
+
+---
+
+## **Custom PHP Configuration**
+
+Most common settings can be changed with [environment variables](#environment-variables).
+For anything else, either:
+
+- mount or copy your own `.ini` file into `/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/`, or
+- place a `php.ini` file at `conf/php/php.ini` in your project; it is copied into `conf.d` at startup.
 
 ---
 
 ## **Supervisord Integration**
 
 Supervisord can be used to manage tasks or processes within the container.  
+Place your programs in `conf/worker/supervisor.conf` in your project, or mount them into `/etc/supervisor/conf.d/`.
 
 ### **Example Configuration for Kafka Consumer**
 ```conf
@@ -196,16 +270,23 @@ stdout_logfile=/var/www/html/storage/logs/kafka.log
 
 ## **Fixing Storage Permissions**  
 
-If you encounter storage permission issues, run the following commands:  
+`www-data` has UID/GID `1000` in both Debian and Alpine variants. If you encounter permission issues, run:  
 
 ```sh
-docker compose exec php-fpm /bin/bash
+docker compose exec app chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/storage /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache
+docker compose exec app chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/storage
 ```
 
-Then inside the container:  
+To match your host user, rebuild with `--build-arg USER_ID=$(id -u) --build-arg GROUP_ID=$(id -g)`.
+
+---
+
+## **Building & Testing Locally**
+
 ```sh
-chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
-chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/storage
+make build-8.5          # Debian image
+make build-8.5-alpine   # Alpine image
+make test               # Integration test (Laravel + MySQL)
 ```
 
 ---
@@ -236,5 +317,3 @@ Whether you're managing internal APIs or exposing public endpoints, **Goma Gatew
 
 ## ⭐️ **Support the Project**  
 If this project helped you, do not skip on giving it a star. Thanks!
-
-
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 4ae1943..b3464df 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-if [ $# -eq 0 ]
-  then
-    tag='latest'
-  else
-    tag=$1
-fi
-if [ $tag != 'latest' ]
-then
-  echo 'Build from tag'
-  docker build -f src/docker/${tag}/Dockerfile -t jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:$tag .
+# Usage: ./build.sh [php-version] (default: 8.5)
+#        ./build.sh 8.4-alpine
+set -e
+tag=${1:-8.5}
+version=${tag%-alpine}
+
+if [ -f "src/docker/${version}/Dockerfile" ]; then
+  echo "Build legacy image ${tag}"
+  docker build -f "src/docker/${version}/Dockerfile" -t "jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:${tag}" .
+elif [ "${tag}" != "${version}" ]; then
+  echo "Build ${tag}"
+  docker build --build-arg phpVersion="${version}" -f src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine -t "jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:${tag}" .
 else
- echo 'Build latest'
- docker build -f src/docker/8.3/Dockerfile -t jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:$tag .
- 
+  echo "Build ${tag}"
+  docker build --build-arg phpVersion="${version}" -f src/docker/Dockerfile -t "jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:${tag}" .
 fi
-docker compose up -d --force-recreate
diff --git a/src/default.conf b/src/default.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index aedbfc0..0000000
--- a/src/default.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-
-server {
-    listen 80 default_server;
-    listen [::]:80 default_server;  
-    server_name _;
-    # Add index.php to setup Nginx, PHP & PHP-FPM config
-    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
-    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
-    root /var/www/html;
-    # pass PHP scripts on Nginx to FastCGI (PHP-FPM) server
-    location ~ \.php$ {
-        try_files $uri =404;
-        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
-        # Nginx php-fpm config:
-        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
-        fastcgi_index index.php;
-        include fastcgi_params;
-        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
-        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
-        
-    }
-    client_max_body_size 15M;
-    server_tokens off;
-
-     # Hide PHP headers 
-    fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By; 
-    fastcgi_hide_header X-CF-Powered-By;
-    fastcgi_hide_header X-Runtime;
-
-    location / {
-        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
-        gzip_static on;
-    }
-  # deny access to Apache .htaccess on Nginx with PHP, 
-  # if Apache and Nginx document roots concur
-  location ~ /\.ht    {deny all;}
-	location ~ /\.svn/  {deny all;}
-	location ~ /\.git/  {deny all;}
-	location ~ /\.hg/   {deny all;}
-	location ~ /\.bzr/  {deny all;}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/docker/7.2/Dockerfile b/src/docker/7.2/Dockerfile
index 8c1516c..daf6ba0 100644
--- a/src/docker/7.2/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker/7.2/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 FROM php:7.2-fpm
 ARG WORKDIR=/var/www/html
-ENV DOCUMENT_ROOT=${WORKDIR}
 ENV LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1
+ENV APP_DIR=/var/www/html \
+    PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=UTC \
+    PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=Off \
+    PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
+    PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=80M \
+    PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=80M \
+    PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE=1 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION=512 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES=50000 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ=0
 ENV DOMAIN=_
 ENV CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M
 ENV NODE_VERSION=17.x
@@ -84,7 +96,6 @@ RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
 RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
 COPY src/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-COPY src/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
 
 RUN usermod -u ${USER_ID} ${USER_NAME}
 RUN groupmod -g ${USER_ID} ${GROUP_NAME}
diff --git a/src/docker/7.3/Dockerfile b/src/docker/7.3/Dockerfile
index 2a4f567..158cf8b 100644
--- a/src/docker/7.3/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker/7.3/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 FROM php:7.3-fpm
 ARG WORKDIR=/var/www/html
-ENV DOCUMENT_ROOT=${WORKDIR}
 ENV LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1
+ENV APP_DIR=/var/www/html \
+    PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=UTC \
+    PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=Off \
+    PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
+    PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=80M \
+    PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=80M \
+    PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE=1 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION=512 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES=50000 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ=0
 ENV DOMAIN=_
 ENV CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M
 ENV NODE_VERSION=17.x
@@ -85,7 +97,6 @@ RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
 RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
 COPY src/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-COPY src/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
 
 RUN usermod -u ${USER_ID} ${USER_NAME}
 RUN groupmod -g ${USER_ID} ${GROUP_NAME}
diff --git a/src/docker/7.4/Dockerfile b/src/docker/7.4/Dockerfile
index 4e0adef..62c8707 100644
--- a/src/docker/7.4/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker/7.4/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 FROM php:7.4-fpm
 ARG WORKDIR=/var/www/html
-ENV DOCUMENT_ROOT=${WORKDIR}
 ENV LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1
+ENV APP_DIR=/var/www/html \
+    PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=UTC \
+    PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=Off \
+    PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
+    PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=80M \
+    PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=80M \
+    PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE=1 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION=512 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES=50000 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ=0
 ENV DOMAIN=_
 ENV CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M
 ENV NODE_VERSION=17.x
@@ -84,7 +96,6 @@ RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
 RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
 COPY src/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-COPY src/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
 
 RUN usermod -u ${USER_ID} ${USER_NAME}
 RUN groupmod -g ${USER_ID} ${GROUP_NAME}
diff --git a/src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile b/src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile
index ec0095f..9014642 100644
--- a/src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker/8.0/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 FROM php:8.0-fpm
 ARG WORKDIR=/var/www/html
-ENV DOCUMENT_ROOT=${WORKDIR}
 ENV LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1
+ENV APP_DIR=/var/www/html \
+    PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=UTC \
+    PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=Off \
+    PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
+    PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=80M \
+    PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=80M \
+    PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE=1 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION=512 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES=50000 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ=0
 ENV DOMAIN=_
 ENV CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M
 ENV NODE_VERSION=17.x
@@ -96,7 +108,6 @@ RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
 RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
 COPY src/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-COPY src/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
 
 RUN usermod -u ${USER_ID} ${USER_NAME}
 RUN groupmod -g ${USER_ID} ${GROUP_NAME}
diff --git a/src/docker/Dockerfile b/src/docker/Dockerfile
index dba39bd..97b01cf 100644
--- a/src/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,123 +1,109 @@
-ARG phpVersion=8.3-dev
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
+ARG phpVersion=8.5
+FROM composer:2 AS composer
+
 FROM php:${phpVersion}-fpm
 ARG WORKDIR=/var/www/html
-ENV DOCUMENT_ROOT=${WORKDIR}
-ENV LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1
-ENV DOMAIN=_
-ENV CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M
-ENV NODE_VERSION=20.x
 ARG GROUP_ID=1000
 ARG USER_ID=1000
-ENV USER_NAME=www-data
 ARG GROUP_NAME=www-data
-# Install system dependencies
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
-    git \
-    curl \
-    libfreetype6-dev \
-    libjpeg62-turbo-dev \
-    libmemcached-dev \
-    libzip-dev \
-    libpng-dev \
-    libonig-dev \
-    libxml2-dev \
-    librdkafka-dev \
-    libpq-dev \
-    openssh-server \
-    zip \
-    unzip \
-    supervisor \
-    sqlite3  \
-    nano \
-    cron
+ARG NODE_MAJOR=24
 
-RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_${NODE_VERSION} | bash -
- # Install Node    
-RUN apt-get install -y nodejs     
-# Install nginx 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y nginx
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="nginx-php-fpm" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.description="Nginx and PHP-FPM image for Laravel and PHP applications" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.licenses="MIT" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.authors="Jonas Kaninda"
 
-# Clear cache
-RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-# Install Kafka 
-RUN git clone https://github.com/arnaud-lb/php-rdkafka.git\
-    && cd php-rdkafka \
-    && phpize \
-    && ./configure \
-    && make all -j 5 \
-    && make install 
+ENV APP_DIR=${WORKDIR} \
+    USER_NAME=www-data \
+    NODE_MAJOR=${NODE_MAJOR} \
+    DOMAIN=_ \
+    CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M \
+    LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1 \
+    LARAVEL_QUEUE_WORKER_ENABLED=true \
+    LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS="--sleep=3 --tries=3" \
+    LARAVEL_SCHEDULER_ENABLED=true \
+    PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=UTC \
+    PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=Off \
+    PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
+    PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=80M \
+    PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=80M \
+    PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE=1 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION=512 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES=50000 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ=0 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM=dynamic \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_CHILDREN=20 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS=2 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS=1 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS=3 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS=500
 
-# Install Rdkafka and enable it
-RUN docker-php-ext-enable rdkafka \
-     && cd .. \
-    && rm -rf /php-rdkafka
+# Runtime tools, Nginx and Node.js
+RUN set -eux; \
+    apt-get update; \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        ca-certificates curl gnupg git openssh-client unzip zip \
+        nginx supervisor cron sqlite3 nano; \
+    mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings; \
+    curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg; \
+    echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_${NODE_MAJOR}.x nodistro main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list; \
+    apt-get update; \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends nodejs; \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-# Install PHP extensions zip, mbstring, exif, bcmath, intl
-RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg
-RUN docker-php-ext-install  zip mbstring exif pcntl bcmath -j$(nproc) gd intl
+# PHP extensions (build dependencies are purged, runtime libraries are kept)
+RUN set -eux; \
+    savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+    apt-get update; \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libpng-dev libwebp-dev \
+        libicu-dev libmemcached-dev libonig-dev libpq-dev librdkafka-dev \
+        libxml2-dev libzip-dev zlib1g-dev; \
+    docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg --with-webp; \
+    docker-php-ext-install -j"$(nproc)" bcmath exif gd intl mbstring pcntl pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql zip; \
+    pecl install redis memcached rdkafka; \
+    docker-php-ext-enable redis memcached rdkafka; \
+    # OPcache is always compiled in since PHP 8.5
+    if ! php -m | grep -qi '^zend opcache$'; then docker-php-ext-install opcache; fi; \
+    apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+    apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+    find /usr/local -type f \( -executable -o -name '*.so' \) -exec ldd '{}' ';' 2>/dev/null \
+        | awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
+        | sort -u | xargs -r dpkg-query --search | awk -F: '!/^diversion/ { print $1 }' | sort -u | xargs -r apt-mark manual; \
+    apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+    ! php -m 2>&1 | grep -iE 'warning|unable to load'
 
-# Install Redis and enable it
-RUN pecl install redis  && docker-php-ext-enable redis
+COPY --from=composer /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer
 
-
-
-# Install the php memcached extension
-RUN pecl install memcached && docker-php-ext-enable memcached
-
-# Install the PHP pdo_mysql extention
-RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql
-
-# Install the PHP pdo_pgsql extention
-RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_pgsql
-
-# Install PHP Opcache extention
-RUN docker-php-ext-install opcache
-
-# Install Composer
-RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
-
-# Set working directory
 WORKDIR $WORKDIR
 
-RUN rm -Rf /var/www/* && \
-mkdir -p /var/www/html
-
-ADD src/index.php $WORKDIR/index.php
-ADD src/php.ini $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/
-ADD src/opcache.ini $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/
-ADD src/supervisor/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
-
-COPY src/entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/
-RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh && \
- ln -s /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh /
-
-RUN rm -rf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && \
-rm -rf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default && \
- rm -rf /etc/nginx/sites-available/default && \
-    rm -rf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+RUN rm -Rf /var/www/* /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && \
+    mkdir -p ${WORKDIR} /etc/supervisor/conf.d /var/log/supervisor /var/log/nginx /var/cache/nginx /etc/nginx/conf.d
 
+COPY src/index.php $WORKDIR/index.php
+COPY src/php.ini src/opcache.ini $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/
+COPY src/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf
 COPY src/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-COPY src/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
+COPY src/supervisor/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
+COPY --chmod=755 src/entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
+RUN ln -s /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 
 RUN usermod -u ${USER_ID} ${USER_NAME} && \
- groupmod -g ${USER_ID} ${GROUP_NAME}
+    groupmod -g ${GROUP_ID} ${GROUP_NAME} && \
+    touch /var/run/nginx.pid && \
+    chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} /var/www /var/log /tmp $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d \
+        /etc/supervisor/conf.d /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d \
+        /var/cache/nginx /var/lib/nginx /var/run/nginx.pid
 
-RUN mkdir -p /var/log/supervisor /var/log/nginx /var/cache/nginx
+HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=30s --start-interval=2s --retries=3 \
+    CMD php -r 'exit(@fsockopen("127.0.0.1", 9000) && @fsockopen("127.0.0.1", 80) ? 0 : 1);'
 
-RUN chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} /var/www && \
-  chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} /var/log/ && \
-  chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} /etc/supervisor/conf.d/ && \
-  chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/ && \
-  touch /var/run/nginx.pid && \
-  chown -R $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME /var/cache/nginx && \
-  chown -R $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME /var/lib/nginx/ && \
-  chown -R $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME /etc/nginx/nginx.conf && \
-  chown -R $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME /var/run/nginx.pid && \
-  chown -R $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME /var/log/supervisor && \
-  chown -R $USER_NAME:$USER_NAME /etc/nginx/conf.d/ && \
-  chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} /tmp
-
-
-#USER ${USER_NAME}
 EXPOSE 80
-ENTRYPOINT ["entrypoint.sh"]
\ No newline at end of file
+ENTRYPOINT ["entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["entrypoint"]
diff --git a/src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine b/src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7181ab8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/docker/Dockerfile.alpine
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
+ARG phpVersion=8.5
+FROM composer:2 AS composer
+
+FROM php:${phpVersion}-fpm-alpine
+ARG WORKDIR=/var/www/html
+ARG GROUP_ID=1000
+ARG USER_ID=1000
+ARG GROUP_NAME=www-data
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="nginx-php-fpm" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.description="Nginx and PHP-FPM image for Laravel and PHP applications (Alpine)" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.licenses="MIT" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.authors="Jonas Kaninda"
+
+ENV APP_DIR=${WORKDIR} \
+    USER_NAME=www-data \
+    DOMAIN=_ \
+    CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE=15M \
+    LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER=1 \
+    LARAVEL_QUEUE_WORKER_ENABLED=true \
+    LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS="--sleep=3 --tries=3" \
+    LARAVEL_SCHEDULER_ENABLED=true \
+    PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=UTC \
+    PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=Off \
+    PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=256M \
+    PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=80M \
+    PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=80M \
+    PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=30 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE=1 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION=512 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES=50000 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS=0 \
+    PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ=0 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM=dynamic \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_CHILDREN=20 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS=2 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS=1 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS=3 \
+    PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS=500
+
+# Runtime tools, Nginx and Node.js
+RUN apk add --no-cache bash curl git openssh-client unzip zip nginx supervisor sqlite nano nodejs npm
+
+# PHP extensions (build dependencies are removed, runtime libraries are kept)
+RUN set -eux; \
+    apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS \
+        freetype-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev libpng-dev libwebp-dev \
+        icu-dev libmemcached-dev oniguruma-dev libpq-dev librdkafka-dev \
+        libxml2-dev libzip-dev zlib-dev cyrus-sasl-dev linux-headers; \
+    docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg --with-webp; \
+    docker-php-ext-install -j"$(nproc)" bcmath exif gd intl mbstring pcntl pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql zip; \
+    pecl install redis memcached rdkafka; \
+    docker-php-ext-enable redis memcached rdkafka; \
+    # OPcache is always compiled in since PHP 8.5
+    if ! php -m | grep -qi '^zend opcache$'; then docker-php-ext-install opcache; fi; \
+    runDeps="$( \
+        scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local/lib/php/extensions \
+            | tr ',' '\n' | sort -u \
+            | awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+    )"; \
+    apk add --no-cache --virtual .php-ext-rundeps $runDeps; \
+    apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+    rm -rf /tmp/pear ~/.pearrc; \
+    ! php -m 2>&1 | grep -iE 'warning|unable to load'
+
+COPY --from=composer /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer
+
+WORKDIR $WORKDIR
+
+RUN rm -Rf /var/www/* /etc/nginx/http.d/default.conf && \
+    mkdir -p ${WORKDIR} /etc/supervisor/conf.d /var/log/supervisor /var/log/nginx /var/cache/nginx /etc/nginx/conf.d
+
+COPY src/index.php $WORKDIR/index.php
+COPY src/php.ini src/opcache.ini $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/
+COPY src/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf
+COPY src/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+COPY src/supervisor/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
+COPY --chmod=755 src/entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh
+RUN ln -s /usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh && \
+    ln -sf /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisord.conf
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .user-deps shadow && \
+    usermod -u ${USER_ID} ${USER_NAME} && \
+    groupmod -g ${GROUP_ID} ${GROUP_NAME} && \
+    apk del --no-network .user-deps && \
+    touch /var/run/nginx.pid && \
+    chown -R ${USER_NAME}:${GROUP_NAME} /var/www /var/log /tmp $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d \
+        /etc/supervisor/conf.d /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d \
+        /var/cache/nginx /var/lib/nginx /var/run/nginx.pid
+
+HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=30s --start-interval=2s --retries=3 \
+    CMD php -r 'exit(@fsockopen("127.0.0.1", 9000) && @fsockopen("127.0.0.1", 80) ? 0 : 1);'
+
+EXPOSE 80
+ENTRYPOINT ["entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["entrypoint"]
diff --git a/src/entrypoint.sh b/src/entrypoint.sh
index 4e97686..5172fd5 100644
--- a/src/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/src/entrypoint.sh
@@ -2,70 +2,84 @@
 
 set -e
 
-echo ""
-echo "***********************************************************"
-echo " Starting NGINX PHP-FPM Docker Container                   "
-echo "***********************************************************"
-
 # Logging functions
-info()    { echo "[INFO] $*"; }
-warning() { echo "[WARNING] $*"; }
-fatal()   { echo "[ERROR] $*" >&2; exit 1; }
-
-ARTISAN_FILE="/var/www/html/artisan"
-SUPERVISOR_CONF_DIR="/etc/supervisor/conf.d"
-NGINX_CONF_DIR="/etc/nginx/conf.d"
-CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF="/var/www/html/conf/nginx"
-CUSTOM_SUPERVISOR_CONF="/var/www/html/conf/worker/supervisor.conf"
-DOCUMENT_ROOT="/var/www/html/public"
-
-# Laravel Supervisor Setup
-setup_laravel_supervisor() {
-  info "Artisan file found, creating Laravel supervisor config"
-  export DOCUMENT_ROOT
-
-  cat > "$SUPERVISOR_CONF_DIR/laravel-worker.conf" <<EOF
-[program:Laravel-scheduler]
-process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
-command=/bin/sh -c "while true; do (php /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run --verbose --no-interaction &); sleep 60; done"
-autostart=true
-autorestart=true
-numprocs=1
-user=$USER_NAME
-stdout_logfile=/var/log/laravel_scheduler.out.log
-redirect_stderr=true
-
-[program:Laravel-worker]
-process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
-command=php /var/www/html/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3
-autostart=true
-autorestart=true
-numprocs=$LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER
-user=$USER_NAME
-redirect_stderr=true
-stdout_logfile=/var/log/laravel_worker.log
-EOF
-
-  info "Laravel supervisor config created"
+log() {
+    level=$1
+    shift
+    echo "[$level] $*"
 }
 
-# Nginx Config Setup
-setup_nginx_config() {
-  if [ -f "$CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx.conf" ]; then
+info() {
+    log "INFO" "$@"
+}
+
+warning() {
+    log "WARNING" "$@"
+}
+
+fatal() {
+    log "ERROR" "$@" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+is_true() {
+    case "$1" in
+        1|true|TRUE|True|yes|YES|on|ON) return 0 ;;
+        *) return 1 ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+APP_DIR="${APP_DIR:-/var/www/html}"
+USER_NAME="${USER_NAME:-www-data}"
+DOMAIN="${DOMAIN:-_}"
+CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE="${CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE:-15M}"
+LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER="${LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER:-1}"
+LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS="${LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS:---sleep=3 --tries=3}"
+
+# Default to the Laravel public directory when it exists
+if [ -z "$DOCUMENT_ROOT" ]; then
+    if [ -d "$APP_DIR/public" ]; then
+        DOCUMENT_ROOT="$APP_DIR/public"
+    else
+        DOCUMENT_ROOT="$APP_DIR"
+    fi
+fi
+
+NGINX_CONF_DIR="/etc/nginx/conf.d"
+CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF="$APP_DIR/conf/nginx"
+CUSTOM_SUPERVISOR_CONF="$APP_DIR/conf/worker/supervisor.conf"
+SUPERVISOR_CONF_DIR="/etc/supervisor/conf.d"
+
+# Check if custom php.ini file exists
+PHP_INI_SOURCE="$APP_DIR/conf/php/php.ini"
+PHP_INI_TARGET="$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/php.ini"
+
+if [ -f "$PHP_INI_SOURCE" ]; then
+    cp "$PHP_INI_SOURCE" "$PHP_INI_TARGET"
+    info "Custom php.ini file found and copied to $PHP_INI_TARGET"
+fi
+
+# Run any other command (e.g. "php artisan migrate", "composer install", "bash")
+if [ $# -gt 0 ] && [ "$1" != "entrypoint" ] && [ "$1" != "supervisord" ]; then
+    exec "$@"
+fi
+
+# Banner
+echo ""
+echo "***********************************************************"
+echo "   Starting NGINX PHP-FPM Container                        "
+echo "***********************************************************"
+
+# Nginx configuration
+if [ -f "$CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx.conf" ]; then
     cp "$CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx.conf" /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
     info "Using custom nginx.conf"
-  fi
+fi
 
-  if [ -f "$CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx-site.conf" ]; then
-    info "Custom nginx site config found"
-    rm -f "$NGINX_CONF_DIR/default.conf"
+if [ -f "$CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx-site.conf" ]; then
     cp "$CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx-site.conf" "$NGINX_CONF_DIR/default.conf"
-    info "Start nginx with custom server config..."
-  else
-    info "nginx-site.conf not found"
-    info "If you want to use custom configs, create it at $CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx-site.conf"
-    info "Start nginx with default config..."
-
+    info "Using custom nginx site config $CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx-site.conf"
+else
     cat > "$NGINX_CONF_DIR/default.conf" <<EOF
 server {
     listen 80 default_server;
@@ -74,18 +88,8 @@ server {
     root $DOCUMENT_ROOT;
     index index.php index.html index.htm;
 
-    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
-    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
-
-    location ~ \.php\$ {
-        try_files \$uri =404;
-        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)\$;
-        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
-        fastcgi_index index.php;
-        include fastcgi_params;
-        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME \$document_root\$fastcgi_script_name;
-        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO \$fastcgi_path_info;
-    }
+    access_log /dev/stdout;
+    error_log  /dev/stderr warn;
 
     client_max_body_size $CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE;
     server_tokens off;
@@ -99,29 +103,78 @@ server {
         gzip_static on;
     }
 
-    location ~ \.css\$ { add_header Content-Type text/css; }
-    location ~ \.js\$ { add_header Content-Type application/x-javascript; }
+    location ~ \.php\$ {
+        try_files \$uri =404;
+        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)\$;
+        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
+        fastcgi_index index.php;
+        include fastcgi_params;
+        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME \$document_root\$fastcgi_script_name;
+        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO \$fastcgi_path_info;
+    }
 
-    location ~ /\.ht { deny all; }
-    location ~ /\.(svn|git|hg|bzr)/ { deny all; }
+    location ~ /\.(ht|svn|git|hg|bzr) { deny all; }
 }
 EOF
-  fi
-}
+    info "Nginx serving $DOCUMENT_ROOT (server_name $DOMAIN)"
+    info "To use a custom config, create $CUSTOM_NGINX_CONF/nginx-site.conf"
+fi
 
-# Load custom supervisor config if exists
-load_custom_supervisor_config() {
-  if [ -f "$CUSTOM_SUPERVISOR_CONF" ]; then
-    info "Custom supervisor config found"
+# Check if the artisan file exists
+ARTISAN_PATH="$APP_DIR/artisan"
+SUPERVISOR_TASK="$SUPERVISOR_CONF_DIR/laravel-worker.conf"
+if [ -f "$ARTISAN_PATH" ]; then
+    info "Artisan file found, creating Laravel supervisor config..."
+    : > "$SUPERVISOR_TASK"
+
+    if is_true "${LARAVEL_SCHEDULER_ENABLED:-true}"; then
+        cat >> "$SUPERVISOR_TASK" <<EOF
+[program:Laravel-scheduler]
+process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
+command=/bin/sh -c "while true; do php $ARTISAN_PATH schedule:run --verbose --no-interaction & sleep 60; done"
+autostart=true
+autorestart=true
+numprocs=1
+user=$USER_NAME
+stdout_logfile=/var/log/laravel_scheduler.out.log
+redirect_stderr=true
+
+EOF
+        info "Laravel scheduler enabled"
+    fi
+
+    if is_true "${LARAVEL_QUEUE_WORKER_ENABLED:-true}"; then
+        cat >> "$SUPERVISOR_TASK" <<EOF
+[program:Laravel-worker]
+process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
+command=php $ARTISAN_PATH queue:work $LARAVEL_QUEUE_OPTIONS
+autostart=true
+autorestart=true
+; Keep retrying while the database/queue backend is not ready yet
+startretries=20
+stopwaitsecs=3600
+numprocs=$LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER
+user=$USER_NAME
+redirect_stderr=true
+stdout_logfile=/var/log/laravel_worker.log
+EOF
+        info "Laravel queue worker enabled ($LARAVEL_PROCS_NUMBER process(es))"
+    fi
+
+    info "Laravel supervisor config created at $SUPERVISOR_TASK"
+else
+    rm -f "$SUPERVISOR_TASK" 2>/dev/null || true
+    info "Artisan file not found at $ARTISAN_PATH"
+fi
+
+# Custom supervisor programs
+if [ -f "$CUSTOM_SUPERVISOR_CONF" ]; then
     cp "$CUSTOM_SUPERVISOR_CONF" "$SUPERVISOR_CONF_DIR/supervisor.conf"
-  fi
-}
+    info "Custom supervisor config found and copied"
+fi
 
-# Main Execution
-[ -f "$ARTISAN_FILE" ] && setup_laravel_supervisor || info "artisan file not found"
-
-setup_nginx_config
-load_custom_supervisor_config
-
-# Start Supervisor
-supervisord -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
+# Start Supervisor (programs drop privileges to $USER_NAME themselves)
+if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
+    exec supervisord -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf -u root
+fi
+exec supervisord -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
diff --git a/src/nginx.conf b/src/nginx.conf
index ef61525..7cfcd5a 100644
--- a/src/nginx.conf
+++ b/src/nginx.conf
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 user www-data;
 worker_processes auto;
-error_log               /var/log/nginx/error.log crit;
+error_log               /dev/stderr warn;
 pid                     /var/run/nginx.pid;
+# Dynamic modules (Debian / Alpine)
 include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;
+include /etc/nginx/modules/*.conf;
 
 events {
 	worker_connections  1024;
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ http {
 	gzip_min_length 512;
 	gzip_comp_level 6;
 	gzip_buffers 8 64k;
-	gzip_types text/plain text/xml text/css text/js application/x-javascript application/xml image/png image/x-icon image/gif image/jpeg image/svg+xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/x-font-ttf font/opentype;
+	gzip_types text/plain text/xml text/css text/js application/x-javascript application/xml image/x-icon image/svg+xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/x-font-ttf font/opentype;
 
 	# Proxy settings
 	proxy_redirect      off;
diff --git a/src/opcache.ini b/src/opcache.ini
index 9710908..00877bf 100644
--- a/src/opcache.ini
+++ b/src/opcache.ini
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 [opcache]
 ; Determines if Zend OPCache is enabled
-opcache.enable=1
+opcache.enable=${PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE}
 
 ; Determines if Zend OPCache is enabled for the CLI version of PHP
-;opcache.enable_cli=1
+opcache.enable_cli=${PHP_OPCACHE_ENABLE_CLI}
 
 ; The OPcache shared memory storage size.
-opcache.memory_consumption=512
+opcache.memory_consumption=${PHP_OPCACHE_MEMORY_CONSUMPTION}
 
 ; The amount of memory for interned strings in Mbytes.
 opcache.interned_strings_buffer=64
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ opcache.interned_strings_buffer=64
 ; Only numbers between 200 and 1000000 are allowed.
 ;If you have multiple PHP sites on the server then consider the value 130986
 ; for magento 2, keep 65406
-opcache.max_accelerated_files=50000
+opcache.max_accelerated_files=${PHP_OPCACHE_MAX_ACCELERATED_FILES}
 
 ; The maximum percentage of "wasted" memory until a restart is scheduled.
 opcache.max_wasted_percentage=15
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ opcache.max_wasted_percentage=15
 ; webserver for changes to the filesystem to take effect.
 ; For Development / testing, keep 1
 ; For performance / production, keep 0
-opcache.validate_timestamps=0
+opcache.validate_timestamps=${PHP_OPCACHE_VALIDATE_TIMESTAMPS}
 
 ;opcache.revalidate_freq How often in seconds should the code
 ;cache expire and check if your code has changed. 0 means it
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ opcache.validate_timestamps=0
 ;should not be enabled by default, as long as it's disabled then any value for opcache.
 ;revalidate_freq will basically be ignored. You should really only ever enable
 ;this during development, you don't really want to enable this setting for a production application.
-opcache.revalidate_freq=0
+opcache.revalidate_freq=${PHP_OPCACHE_REVALIDATE_FREQ}
 
 ; Enables or disables file search in include_path optimization
 ;opcache.revalidate_path=0
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ opcache.revalidate_freq=0
 ; size of the optimized code.
 opcache.save_comments=1
 
-; If enabled, a fast shutdown sequence is used for the accelerated code
-; Depending on the used Memory Manager this may cause some incompatibilities.
-opcache.fast_shutdown=1
-
 ; Allow file existence override (file_exists, etc.) performance feature.
 ;opcache.enable_file_override=0
 
@@ -106,7 +102,7 @@ opcache.fast_shutdown=1
 ; processes have to map shared memory into the same address space. This
 ; directive allows to manually fix the "Unable to reattach to base address"
 ; errors.
-opcache.mmap_base=0x20000000
+;opcache.mmap_base=
 
 ; Enables and sets the second level cache directory.
 ; It should improve performance when SHM memory is full, at server restart or
@@ -122,7 +118,7 @@ opcache.mmap_base=0x20000000
 ; Implies opcache.file_cache_only=1 for a certain process that failed to
 ; reattach to the shared memory (for Windows only). Explicitly enabled file
 ; cache is required.
-opcache.file_cache_fallback=1
+;opcache.file_cache_fallback=1
 
 ; Enables or disables copying of PHP code (text segment) into HUGE PAGES.
 ; This should improve performance, but requires appropriate OS configuration.
diff --git a/src/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf b/src/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ccce079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/php-fpm.d/zz-nginx-php-fpm.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[www]
+; Expose container environment variables (DB_HOST, APP_KEY, ...) to PHP workers
+clear_env = no
+
+; Process manager, tunable through PHP_FPM_* environment variables
+pm = ${PHP_FPM_PM}
+pm.max_children = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_CHILDREN}
+pm.start_servers = ${PHP_FPM_PM_START_SERVERS}
+pm.min_spare_servers = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MIN_SPARE_SERVERS}
+pm.max_spare_servers = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_SPARE_SERVERS}
+pm.max_requests = ${PHP_FPM_PM_MAX_REQUESTS}
+
+; Health endpoint for FastCGI probes
+ping.path = /ping
+ping.response = pong
diff --git a/src/php.ini b/src/php.ini
index 21ff610..67e281a 100644
--- a/src/php.ini
+++ b/src/php.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-date.timezone=UTC
-display_errors=Off
+; Values can be overridden with environment variables (see README)
+date.timezone=${PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE}
+display_errors=${PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS}
 log_errors=On
-upload_max_filesize= 80M
-post_max_size= 80M
-memory_limit = 256M
+expose_php=Off
+upload_max_filesize=${PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE}
+post_max_size=${PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE}
+memory_limit=${PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT}
+max_execution_time=${PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME}
diff --git a/src/supervisor/supervisord.conf b/src/supervisor/supervisord.conf
index 3dacdde..3cea4e7 100644
--- a/src/supervisor/supervisord.conf
+++ b/src/supervisor/supervisord.conf
@@ -1,32 +1,41 @@
 [supervisord]
 nodaemon=true
-user=www-data
 logfile=/var/log/supervisor/supervisord.log
 logfile_maxbytes = 50MB
 pidfile=/tmp/supervisord.pid
 directory = /tmp
 
+[unix_http_server]
+file=/tmp/supervisor.sock
+chmod=0700
+
+[rpcinterface:supervisor]
+supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface
+
+[supervisorctl]
+serverurl=unix:///tmp/supervisor.sock
 
 [program:php-fpm]
-command=/usr/local/sbin/php-fpm
+command=/usr/local/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize
 numprocs=1
 autostart=true
 autorestart=true
-stderr_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/php-fpm.err.log
-stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/php-fpm.out.log
-user=www-data
+redirect_stderr=true
+stdout_logfile=/dev/stdout
+stdout_logfile_maxbytes=0
 priority=1
+stopsignal=QUIT
 
 [program:nginx]
 command=/usr/sbin/nginx -g "daemon off;"
 numprocs=1
 autostart=true
 autorestart=true
-stderr_logfile=/var/log/nginx/nginx.err.log
-stdout_logfile=/var/log/nginx/nginx.out.log
-logfile_maxbytes = 50MB
-user=www-data
+redirect_stderr=true
+stdout_logfile=/dev/stdout
+stdout_logfile_maxbytes=0
 priority=2
+stopsignal=QUIT
 
 [include]
-files = /etc/supervisor/conf.d/*.conf
\ No newline at end of file
+files = /etc/supervisor/conf.d/*.conf
diff --git a/tests/compose.yaml b/tests/compose.yaml
index f6c4e2c..98e2cee 100644
--- a/tests/compose.yaml
+++ b/tests/compose.yaml
@@ -1,30 +1,34 @@
-version: '3'
 services:
-    mysql:
-      image: mysql:8.0
-      container_name: mysql
-      restart: unless-stopped
-      environment:
-        MYSQL_DATABASE: php
-        MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
-        MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
-        MYSQL_USER: php
-      ports:
-       - 3306:3306
-    nginx-php-fpm:
-        image: jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:latest
-        container_name: nginx-php-fpm
-        restart: unless-stopped
-        depends_on:
-         - mysql
-        environment:
-          DB_HOST: mysql
-          DB_PORT: 3306
-          DB_DATABASE: php
-          DB_USERNAME: php
-          DB_PASSWORD: password
-        volumes:
-        #Project root
-            - ./laravel:/var/www/html
-        ports:
-          - 80:80
+  mysql:
+    image: mysql:8.4
+    container_name: mysql
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: php
+      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
+      MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
+      MYSQL_USER: php
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin", "ping", "-h", "127.0.0.1", "-ppassword"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 30
+  nginx-php-fpm:
+    image: ${IMAGE:-jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:latest}
+    container_name: nginx-php-fpm
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    depends_on:
+      mysql:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    environment:
+      DB_CONNECTION: mysql
+      DB_HOST: mysql
+      DB_PORT: 3306
+      DB_DATABASE: php
+      DB_USERNAME: php
+      DB_PASSWORD: password
+      CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE: 20M
+    volumes:
+      - ./laravel:/var/www/html
+    ports:
+      - "${HTTP_PORT:-80}:80"
diff --git a/tests/integration.sh b/tests/integration.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..afd3d17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Integration test: create a Laravel project with the image, serve it through
+# the bundled Nginx, run migrations and check that Nginx, PHP-FPM, the queue
+# worker and the scheduler are running.
+# Usage: IMAGE=jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:8.5 [HTTP_PORT=8080] ./tests/integration.sh
+set -eu
+
+IMAGE="${IMAGE:-jkaninda/nginx-php-fpm:latest}"
+HTTP_PORT="${HTTP_PORT:-80}"
+export IMAGE HTTP_PORT
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+cleanup() {
+    docker compose logs nginx-php-fpm || true
+    docker compose down -v --remove-orphans || true
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+echo "==> Checking PHP extensions"
+docker run --rm "$IMAGE" php -m > modules.txt
+for ext in bcmath exif gd intl mbstring memcached pcntl pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql rdkafka redis zip "Zend OPcache"; do
+    grep -qx "$ext" modules.txt || { echo "Missing extension: $ext"; exit 1; }
+done
+if docker run --rm "$IMAGE" php -m 2>&1 | grep -iE 'warning|unable to load'; then
+    echo "PHP startup warnings detected"; exit 1
+fi
+rm -f modules.txt
+docker run --rm "$IMAGE" sh -c 'php -v && composer -V && node -v && npm -v && nginx -t'
+
+echo "==> Creating Laravel project"
+rm -rf laravel
+docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/app" -w /app "$IMAGE" \
+    composer create-project --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress laravel/laravel laravel
+docker run --rm -v "$PWD/laravel:/var/www/html" "$IMAGE" \
+    chown -R www-data:www-data storage bootstrap/cache database
+
+echo "==> Starting stack"
+docker compose up -d
+
+echo "==> Waiting for the container to be healthy"
+i=0
+until [ "$(docker inspect -f '{{.State.Health.Status}}' nginx-php-fpm)" = "healthy" ]; do
+    i=$((i + 1)); [ "$i" -gt 60 ] && { echo "Container not healthy"; exit 1; }
+    sleep 2
+done
+
+echo "==> Checking generated Nginx config"
+docker exec nginx-php-fpm grep -q "root /var/www/html/public;" /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+docker exec nginx-php-fpm grep -q "client_max_body_size 20M;" /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+
+echo "==> Running migrations"
+docker exec --user www-data nginx-php-fpm php artisan migrate --force
+
+echo "==> Checking HTTP response"
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "http://localhost:$HTTP_PORT")
+echo "HTTP $code"
+[ "$code" = "200" ]
+
+echo "==> Checking supervisor programs"
+for program in php-fpm nginx Laravel-worker Laravel-scheduler; do
+    i=0
+    until docker exec nginx-php-fpm supervisorctl status | grep "^$program" | grep -q RUNNING; do
+        i=$((i + 1)); [ "$i" -gt 30 ] && { echo "$program is not running"; docker exec nginx-php-fpm supervisorctl status; exit 1; }
+        sleep 2
+    done
+done
+docker exec nginx-php-fpm supervisorctl status
+
+echo "==> All tests passed"