diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index c3055bab..1d66fa42 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_GNUPG=false
 PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_PGSQL=false
 PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_MONGO=false
 PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_BCMATH=false
+PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_MEMCACHED=false
 # PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_OCI8 Does not work in php5.6 version
 PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_OCI8=false
 PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_PHALCON=false
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 86202e64..f162cbdd 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ services:
           - INSTALL_PGSQL=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_PGSQL}
           - INSTALL_MONGO=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_MONGO}
           - INSTALL_BCMATH=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_BCMATH}
+          - INSTALL_MEMCACHED=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_MEMCACHED}
           - INSTALL_OCI8=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_OCI8}
           - INSTALL_PHALCON=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_PHALCON}
           - INSTALL_SOAP=${PHP_WORKER_INSTALL_SOAP}
diff --git a/php-worker/Dockerfile b/php-worker/Dockerfile
index f0ca0a96..9f4bfb23 100644
--- a/php-worker/Dockerfile
+++ b/php-worker/Dockerfile
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ RUN apk --update add wget \
   curl \
   git \
   build-base \
-  libmemcached-dev \
   libmcrypt-dev \
   libxml2-dev \
   pcre-dev \
@@ -40,13 +39,6 @@ RUN apk --update add wget \
 RUN pecl channel-update pecl.php.net; \
     docker-php-ext-install mysqli mbstring pdo pdo_mysql tokenizer xml pcntl
 
-RUN if [ $(php -r "echo PHP_MAJOR_VERSION;") = "5" ]; then \
-      pecl install memcached-2.2.0 mcrypt-1.0.1; \
-    else \
-      pecl install memcached mcrypt-1.0.1; \
-    fi; \
-    docker-php-ext-enable memcached
-
 # Add a non-root user:
 ARG PUID=1000
 ENV PUID ${PUID}
@@ -404,6 +396,24 @@ RUN if [ ${INSTALL_XMLRPC} = true ]; then \
       php -m | grep -r 'xmlrpc'; \
     fi
 
+###########################################################################
+# PHP Memcached:
+###########################################################################
+
+ARG INSTALL_MEMCACHED=false
+
+RUN if [ ${INSTALL_MEMCACHED} = true ]; then \
+  apk --update add libmemcached-dev; \
+  # Install the php memcached extension
+  if [ $(php -r "echo PHP_MAJOR_VERSION;") = "5" ]; then \
+    pecl install memcached-2.2.0; \
+  else \
+    pecl install memcached; \
+  fi; \
+  docker-php-ext-enable memcached; \
+  php -m | grep -r 'memcached'; \
+fi
+
 #
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Optional Supervisord Configuration