diff --git a/dockerfiles/tasks/composer/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/tasks/composer/Dockerfile
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+# Create a base Ubuntu image to build upon
+# docker build --rm -t composer .
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+MAINTAINER Richard Morgan <r_morgan@sympatico.ca>
+
+WORKDIR /opt/project
+
+# set terminal variable so that tools such as nano and htop work
+# this is not needed in prod containers, but is useful for devs
+ENV TERM=xterm
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    curl nano sed libwww-perl htop ca-certificates \
+    php7.0 php-cli php-fpm php-curl php-pear php-mcrypt php-zip php-mbstring php-xml \
+    php-pgsql php-redis \
+    \
+  && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
+  && php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" \
+  && php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
+
+ENTRYPOINT /usr/local/bin/composer
diff --git a/dockerfiles/tasks/composer/Dockerfile-71 b/dockerfiles/tasks/composer/Dockerfile-71
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+# Create a base Ubuntu image to build upon
+# docker build --rm -f Dockerfile-71 -t composer:7.1 .
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+MAINTAINER Richard Morgan <r_morgan@sympatico.ca>
+
+WORKDIR /opt/project
+
+# set terminal variable so that tools such as nano and htop work
+# this is not needed in prod containers, but is useful for devs
+ENV TERM=xterm
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common python-software-properties \
+  && LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php \
+  && apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    curl nano sed libwww-perl htop ca-certificates \
+    php7.1 php-cli php-fpm php-curl php-pear php-mcrypt php-zip php-mbstring php-xml \
+    php-pgsql php-redis \
+    \
+  && apt-cache pkgnames | grep php7.1 \
+  && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
+  && php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" \
+  && php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/composer"]
diff --git a/dockerfiles/tasks/composer/Dockerfile-72 b/dockerfiles/tasks/composer/Dockerfile-72
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+# Create a base Ubuntu image to build upon
+# docker build --rm -f Dockerfile-72 -t composer:7.2 .
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+MAINTAINER Richard Morgan <r_morgan@sympatico.ca>
+
+WORKDIR /opt/project
+
+# set terminal variable so that tools such as nano and htop work
+# this is not needed in prod containers, but is useful for devs
+ENV TERM=xterm
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common python-software-properties \
+  && LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php \
+  && apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    curl nano sed libwww-perl htop ca-certificates \
+    php7.2 php-cli php-fpm php-curl php-pear php-mcrypt php-zip php-mbstring php-xml \
+    php-pgsql php-redis \
+    \
+  && apt-cache pkgnames | grep php7.1 \
+  && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
+  && php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" \
+  && php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/composer"]