Dockerfile

FROM debian:jessie

# add our user and group first to make sure their IDs get assigned consistently, regardless of whatever dependencies get added
RUN groupadd -r memcache && useradd -r -g memcache memcache

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \  
                libevent-2.0-5 \        
        && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ENV MEMCACHED_VERSION 1.4.32

RUN buildDeps=' \  
                gcc \
                libc6-dev \
                libevent-dev \
                make \
                perl \
                wget \
        ' \        
        && set -x \        
        && apt-get update && apt-get install -y $buildDeps --no-install-recommends \        
        && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \        
        && wget -O memcached.tar.gz "http://memcached.org/files/memcached-$MEMCACHED_VERSION.tar.gz" \        
        && mkdir -p /usr/src/memcached \        
        && tar -xzf memcached.tar.gz -C /usr/src/memcached --strip-components=1 \        
        && rm memcached.tar.gz \        
        && cd /usr/src/memcached \        
        && ./configure \        
        && make -j$(nproc) \        
        && make install \        
        && cd / && rm -rf /usr/src/memcached \        
        && apt-get purge -y --auto-remove $buildDeps

COPY docker-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/  
RUN ln -s usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh # backwards compat  
ENTRYPOINT ["docker-entrypoint.sh"]

USER memcache  
EXPOSE 11211  
CMD ["memcached", "-vv"]