diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index fe5660f..1b1f229 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.3
+FROM ubuntu:14.04
 MAINTAINER Bryan Latten <latten@adobe.com>
 
 # Use in multi-phase builds, when an init process requests for the container to gracefully exit, so that it may be committed
@@ -10,22 +10,27 @@ ENV SIGNAL_BUILD_STOP=99 \
     NOT_ROOT_USER=docker
 
 # Create an unprivileged user
-RUN adduser -D -S -H $NOT_ROOT_USER
+RUN useradd -r -s /bin/false $NOT_ROOT_USER
 
-# IMPORTANT: update is *part* of the upgrade statement to ensure the latest on each build.
-# Note: sed/grep replace the less performant, less functional busybox versions
-RUN apk update && \
-    apk upgrade && \
-    apk add \
-        sed \
-        grep \
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -yq \
+        openssl \
+        ca-certificates \
+        software-properties-common \
         supervisor \
-        nginx \
+        nano \
     && \
-    rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-# Overlay the root filesystem from this repo
+# Install latest nginx (development PPA is actually mainline development)
+RUN add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/development -y && \
+    apt-get update -yq && \
+    apt-get install -yq nginx \
+    && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# # Overlay the root filesystem from this repo
 COPY ./container/root /
 
 EXPOSE 80
-CMD ["/bin/sh", "/run.sh"]
+CMD ["/bin/bash", "/run.sh"]
diff --git a/container/root/etc/nginx/nginx.conf b/container/root/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
index 6674c42..741838d 100644
--- a/container/root/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+++ b/container/root/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # add to the run.d/nginx script
 #############################################################
 
-user nobody;
+user www-data;
 worker_processes auto;
 
 pid /tmp/nginx.pid;
diff --git a/container/root/init.sh b/container/root/init.sh
index cbf24d4..739acc8 100755
--- a/container/root/init.sh
+++ b/container/root/init.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 
 RUN_SCRIPTS=/run.d
 STATUS=0
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ for file in $RUN_SCRIPTS/*.sh; do
   echo "[init] executing ${file}"
 
   # Note: -e will enforce that any subcommand that fails will fail the entire script run
-  /bin/sh -e $file
+  /bin/bash -e $file
 
   STATUS=$?  # Captures exit code from script that was run
 
diff --git a/container/root/run.d/10-nginx.sh b/container/root/run.d/10-nginx.sh
index 52b7044..299251b 100755
--- a/container/root/run.d/10-nginx.sh
+++ b/container/root/run.d/10-nginx.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 
 if [[ $SERVER_APP_NAME ]]
 then
diff --git a/container/root/run.sh b/container/root/run.sh
index c0239aa..013fdb0 100755
--- a/container/root/run.sh
+++ b/container/root/run.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 
 # Begin startup sequence
-/bin/sh -e /init.sh
+/bin/bash -e /init.sh
 
 STATUS=$?  # Captures exit code from script that was run
 
diff --git a/container/root/worker.sh b/container/root/worker.sh
index 5f55576..0a85260 100755
--- a/container/root/worker.sh
+++ b/container/root/worker.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 
 # Entrypoint for utilizing as a worker pool instead of a web server
 # Based on configuration, can run multiple instances of a single worker process