diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker.yml b/.github/workflows/docker.yml
index ca6e73630..e7b49f419 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker.yml
@@ -84,10 +84,6 @@ jobs:
         # See: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/using-a-matrix-for-your-jobs#excluding-matrix-configurations
         # See: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstrategymatrixexclude
         exclude:
-          # Broken for imagick on arm64 due to https://github.com/Imagick/imagick/pull/641
-          # Could probably figure out how to do a matrix only ignoring 8.3 + linux/arm64, but this is easier atm
-          - php_version: 8.3
-
           # targeting [apache] runtime with [fpm] base type doesn't make sense
           - target_runtime: apache
             php_base: fpm
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e6d8071fa..f5aca8235 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
 # Configuration
 #######################################################
 
-# See: https://github.com/composer/composer/releases
+# See: https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer
+ARG DOCKER_PHP_EXTENSION_INSTALLER_VERSION="2.1.80"
+
+# See: https://github.com/composer/composer
 ARG COMPOSER_VERSION="2.6"
 
 # See: https://nginx.org/
@@ -17,7 +20,7 @@ ARG FOREGO_VERSION="0.17.2"
 # See: https://github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate
 ARG GOMPLATE_VERSION="v3.11.6"
 
-# See: https://github.com/dotenv-linter/dotenv-linter/releases
+# See: https://github.com/dotenv-linter/dotenv-linter
 #
 # WARN: v3.3.0 and above requires newer libc version than Ubuntu ships with
 ARG DOTENV_LINTER_VERSION="v3.2.0"
@@ -40,7 +43,10 @@ ARG RUNTIME_GID=33 # often called 'www-data'
 ARG APT_PACKAGES_EXTRA=
 
 # Extensions installed via [pecl install]
-ARG PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS="redis imagick"
+# ! NOTE: imagick is installed from [master] branch on GitHub due to 8.3 bug on ARM that haven't
+# ! been released yet (after +10 months)!
+# ! See: https://github.com/Imagick/imagick/pull/641
+ARG PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS="redis https://codeload.github.com/Imagick/imagick/tar.gz/28f27044e435a2b203e32675e942eb8de620ee58"
 ARG PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=
 
 # Extensions installed via [docker-php-ext-install]
@@ -63,6 +69,11 @@ ARG NGINX_GPGKEY_PATH="/usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg"
 # NOTE: Docker will *not* pull this image unless it's referenced (via build target)
 FROM composer:${COMPOSER_VERSION} AS composer-image
 
+# php-extension-installer image from Docker Hub
+#
+# NOTE: Docker will *not* pull this image unless it's referenced (via build target)
+FROM mlocati/php-extension-installer:${DOCKER_PHP_EXTENSION_INSTALLER_VERSION} AS php-extension-installer
+
 # nginx webserver from Docker Hub.
 # Used to copy some docker-entrypoint files for [nginx-runtime]
 #
@@ -147,23 +158,24 @@ ARG PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA
 ARG PHP_VERSION
 ARG TARGETPLATFORM
 
-ENV PHP_EXTENSIONS_DATABASE=${PHP_EXTENSIONS_DATABASE}
-ENV PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=${PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA}
-ENV PHP_EXTENSIONS=${PHP_EXTENSIONS}
-ENV PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=${PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA}
-ENV PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS=${PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS}
+COPY --from=php-extension-installer /usr/bin/install-php-extensions /usr/local/bin/
 
 COPY docker/shared/root/docker/install/php-extensions.sh /docker/install/php-extensions.sh
-RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pixelfed-php-${PHP_VERSION}-${PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE}-${TARGETPLATFORM},sharing=locked,target=/usr/src/php \
+RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pixelfed-pear-${PHP_VERSION}-${PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE}-${TARGETPLATFORM},sharing=locked,target=/tmp/pear  \
     --mount=type=cache,id=pixelfed-apt-${PHP_VERSION}-${PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE}-${TARGETPLATFORM},sharing=locked,target=/var/lib/apt \
     --mount=type=cache,id=pixelfed-apt-cache-${PHP_VERSION}-${PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE}-${TARGETPLATFORM},sharing=locked,target=/var/cache/apt \
+    PHP_EXTENSIONS=${PHP_EXTENSIONS} \
+    PHP_EXTENSIONS_DATABASE=${PHP_EXTENSIONS_DATABASE} \
+    PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=${PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA} \
+    PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS=${PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS} \
+    PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=${PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA} \
     /docker/install/php-extensions.sh
 
 #######################################################
 # PHP: composer and source code
 #######################################################
 
-FROM base AS composer-and-src
+FROM php-extensions AS composer-and-src
 
 ARG PHP_VERSION
 ARG PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE
@@ -188,7 +200,7 @@ USER ${RUNTIME_UID}:${RUNTIME_GID}
 
 # Install composer dependencies
 # NOTE: we skip the autoloader generation here since we don't have all files avaliable (yet)
-RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pixelfed-composer-${PHP_VERSION}-${PHP_DEBIAN_RELEASE}-${TARGETPLATFORM},sharing=locked,target=/cache/composer \
+RUN --mount=type=cache,id=pixelfed-composer-${PHP_VERSION},sharing=locked,target=/cache/composer \
     --mount=type=bind,source=composer.json,target=/var/www/composer.json \
     --mount=type=bind,source=composer.lock,target=/var/www/composer.lock \
     set -ex \
@@ -201,7 +213,7 @@ COPY --chown=${RUNTIME_UID}:${RUNTIME_GID} . /var/www/
 # Runtime: base
 #######################################################
 
-FROM base AS shared-runtime
+FROM php-extensions AS shared-runtime
 
 ARG BUILDARCH
 ARG BUILDOS
@@ -212,8 +224,6 @@ ARG RUNTIME_UID
 ENV RUNTIME_UID=${RUNTIME_UID}
 ENV RUNTIME_GID=${RUNTIME_GID}
 
-COPY --link --from=php-extensions /usr/local/lib/php/extensions /usr/local/lib/php/extensions
-COPY --link --from=php-extensions /usr/local/etc/php /usr/local/etc/php
 COPY --link --from=forego-image /usr/local/bin/forego /usr/local/bin/forego
 COPY --link --from=gomplate-image /usr/local/bin/gomplate /usr/local/bin/gomplate
 COPY --link --from=composer-image /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
diff --git a/docker/shared/root/docker/entrypoint.d/10-storage.sh b/docker/shared/root/docker/entrypoint.d/10-storage.sh
index f0c28241d..54145a365 100755
--- a/docker/shared/root/docker/entrypoint.d/10-storage.sh
+++ b/docker/shared/root/docker/entrypoint.d/10-storage.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ source "${ENTRYPOINT_ROOT}/helpers.sh"
 entrypoint-set-script-name "$0"
 
 # Copy the [storage/] skeleton files over the "real" [storage/] directory so assets are updated between versions
-run-as-runtime-user cp --recursive storage.skel/. ./storage/
+run-as-runtime-user cp --force --recursive storage.skel/. ./storage/
 
 # Ensure storage linkk are correctly configured
 run-as-runtime-user php artisan storage:link
diff --git a/docker/shared/root/docker/install/base.sh b/docker/shared/root/docker/install/base.sh
index e20788b56..4e97e82bb 100755
--- a/docker/shared/root/docker/install/base.sh
+++ b/docker/shared/root/docker/install/base.sh
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ packages+=(
     git
     gnupg1
     gosu
-    libcurl4-openssl-dev
-    libzip-dev
     locales
     locales-all
     moreutils
@@ -42,21 +40,6 @@ packages+=(
     pngquant
 )
 
-# Image Processing
-packages+=(
-    libjpeg62-turbo-dev
-    libmagickwand-dev
-    libpng-dev
-)
-
-# Required for GD
-packages+=(
-    libwebp-dev
-    libwebp6
-    libxpm-dev
-    libxpm4
-)
-
 # Video Processing
 packages+=(
     ffmpeg
@@ -64,8 +47,6 @@ packages+=(
 
 # Database
 packages+=(
-    libpq-dev
-    libsqlite3-dev
     mariadb-client
     postgresql-client
 )
diff --git a/docker/shared/root/docker/install/php-extensions.sh b/docker/shared/root/docker/install/php-extensions.sh
index 42c149d76..222f2374d 100755
--- a/docker/shared/root/docker/install/php-extensions.sh
+++ b/docker/shared/root/docker/install/php-extensions.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 set -ex -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail
 
 declare -a pecl_extensions=()
+
 readarray -d ' ' -t pecl_extensions < <(echo -n "${PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS:-}")
 readarray -d ' ' -t -O "${#pecl_extensions[@]}" pecl_extensions < <(echo -n "${PHP_PECL_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA:-}")
 
@@ -10,16 +11,6 @@ readarray -d ' ' -t php_extensions < <(echo -n "${PHP_EXTENSIONS:-}")
 readarray -d ' ' -t -O "${#php_extensions[@]}" php_extensions < <(echo -n "${PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA:-}")
 readarray -d ' ' -t -O "${#php_extensions[@]}" php_extensions < <(echo -n "${PHP_EXTENSIONS_DATABASE:-}")
 
-# Grab the PHP source code so we can compile against it
-docker-php-source extract
-
-# PHP GD extensions
-docker-php-ext-configure gd \
-    --with-freetype \
-    --with-jpeg \
-    --with-webp \
-    --with-xpm
-
 # Optional script folks can copy into their image to do any [docker-php-ext-configure] work before the [docker-php-ext-install]
 # this can also overwirte the [gd] configure above by simply running it again
 declare -r custom_pre_configure_script=""
@@ -32,11 +23,5 @@ if [[ -e "${custom_pre_configure_script}" ]]; then
     "${custom_pre_configure_script}"
 fi
 
-# Install pecl extensions
-pecl install "${pecl_extensions[@]}"
-
-# PHP extensions (dependencies)
-docker-php-ext-install -j "$(nproc)" "${php_extensions[@]}"
-
-# Enable all extensions
-docker-php-ext-enable "${pecl_extensions[@]}" "${php_extensions[@]}"
+# PECL + PHP extensions
+IPE_KEEP_SYSPKG_CACHE=1 install-php-extensions "${pecl_extensions[@]}" "${php_extensions[@]}"