diff --git a/src/create.js b/src/create.js
index 8591a68d..ba9d9d28 100644
--- a/src/create.js
+++ b/src/create.js
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ const createEnv = async function() {
             'memcached': {
                 'image': images['memcached'],
             },
+            'redis': {
+                'image': images['redis'],
+            },
             'nginx': {
                 'image': images['nginx'],
                 'expose': [
@@ -267,6 +270,7 @@ const createEnv = async function() {
         ],
         'depends_on': [
             'memcached',
+            'redis'
         ],
         'networks': [
             'default',
@@ -279,7 +283,7 @@ const createEnv = async function() {
 
     // Unlike Mac and Windows, Docker is a first class citizen on Linux
     // and doesn't have any kind of translation layer between users and the
-    // file system. Because of this the phpfpm container will be running as the 
+    // file system. Because of this the phpfpm container will be running as the
     // wrong user. Here we setup the docker-compose.yml file to rebuild the
     // phpfpm container so that it runs as the user who created the project.
     if ( os.platform() == 'linux' ) {
@@ -296,7 +300,7 @@ const createEnv = async function() {
         baseConfig.services.phpfpm.volumes.push( `~/.ssh:/home/${process.env.USER}/.ssh:cached` );
     }
     else {
-        // the official containers for this project will have a www-data user. 
+        // the official containers for this project will have a www-data user.
         baseConfig.services.phpfpm.volumes.push( '~/.ssh:/home/www-data/.ssh:cached' );
     }
 
diff --git a/src/image.js b/src/image.js
index 660f467c..66d06ecb 100644
--- a/src/image.js
+++ b/src/image.js
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ const images = {
     'wpsnapshots': '10up/wpsnapshots:dev',
     'memcached': 'memcached:latest',
     'nginx': 'nginx:latest',
-    'elasticsearch': 'docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.6.16'
+    'elasticsearch': 'docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:5.6.16',
+    'redis': 'redis:latest'
 };
 
 const help = function() {
@@ -38,9 +39,9 @@ Updates any docker images used by your environment to the latest versions availa
 };
 
 const update = function( image ) {
-    try { 
+    try {
         execSync( `docker pull ${image}`, { stdio: 'inherit' } );
-    } 
+    }
     catch ( ex ) {
 
     }