diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index bda44f27..8f128315 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ services:
           - INSTALL_FFMPEG=${WORKSPACE_INSTALL_FFMPEG}
           - INSTALL_WKHTMLTOPDF=${WORKSPACE_INSTALL_WKHTMLTOPDF}
           - INSTALL_GNU_PARALLEL=${WORKSPACE_INSTALL_GNU_PARALLEL}
+          - INSTALL_PROTOC=${WORKSPACE_INSTALL_PROTOC}
+          - PROTOC_VERSION=${WORKSPACE_PROTOC_VERSION}
           - http_proxy
           - https_proxy
           - no_proxy
diff --git a/env-example b/env-example
index b08825b5..6d422cb3 100644
--- a/env-example
+++ b/env-example
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ WORKSPACE_VUE_CLI_SERVE_HOST_PORT=8080
 WORKSPACE_VUE_CLI_UI_HOST_PORT=8001
 WORKSPACE_ANGULAR_CLI_SERVE_HOST_PORT=4200
 WORKSPACE_INSTALL_GIT_PROMPT=false
+WORKSPACE_INSTALL_PROTOC=false
+WORKSPACE_PROTOC_VERSION=latest
 
 ### PHP_FPM ###############################################
 
diff --git a/workspace/Dockerfile b/workspace/Dockerfile
index f5a88468..1c5c2182 100644
--- a/workspace/Dockerfile
+++ b/workspace/Dockerfile
@@ -1376,6 +1376,27 @@ RUN if [ ${INSTALL_XMLRPC} = true ]; then \
     docker-php-ext-install xmlrpc \
 ;fi
 
+###########################################################################
+# Protoc:
+###########################################################################
+
+ARG INSTALL_PROTOC=false
+ARG PROTOC_VERSION
+
+RUN if [ ${INSTALL_PROTOC} = true ]; then \
+  if [ ${PROTOC_VERSION} = "latest" ]; then \
+    REAL_PROTOC_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/latest | \
+      sed -nr 's/.*"tag_name":\s?"v(.+?)".*/\1/p'); \
+  else \
+    REAL_PROTOC_VERSION=${PROTOC_VERSION}; \
+  fi && \
+  PROTOC_ZIP=protoc-${REAL_PROTOC_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.zip; \
+  curl -L -o /tmp/protoc.zip https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v${REAL_PROTOC_VERSION}/${PROTOC_ZIP} && \
+  unzip -q -o /tmp/protoc.zip -d /usr/local bin/protoc && \
+  unzip -q -o /tmp/protoc.zip -d /usr/local 'include/*' && \
+  rm -f /tmp/protoc.zip \
+;fi
+
 ###########################################################################
 # Check PHP version:
 ###########################################################################