diff --git a/docker/centos7/Dockerfile b/docker/centos7/Dockerfile
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+FROM centos:7
+
+ADD packages.sh /usr/sbin/docker-packages
+RUN docker-packages
+
+ADD install.sh /usr/sbin/docker-install
+RUN docker-install
+
+ADD run.sh /usr/sbin/docker-run
+CMD docker-run
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diff --git a/docker/centos7/install.sh b/docker/centos7/install.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# install software
+cd /root; git clone https://github.com/mevdschee/php-crud-api.git
+# download phpunit 4.8 for PHP < 5.6
+cd php-crud-api; wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit-4.8.phar -O phpunit.phar
+# copy dist config to config
+cp tests/Config.php.dist tests/Config.php
+# replace variables
+sed -i 's/{{mysql_hostname}}/localhost/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{mysql_username}}/php-crud-api/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{mysql_password}}/php-crud-api/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{mysql_database}}/php-crud-api/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{pgsql_hostname}}/localhost/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{pgsql_username}}/php-crud-api/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{pgsql_password}}/php-crud-api/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{pgsql_database}}/php-crud-api/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{sqlite_hostname}}//g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{sqlite_username}}//g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{sqlite_password}}//g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i 's/{{sqlite_database}}/tests\/sqlite.db/g' tests/Config.php
+# move comments
+sed -i 's/\/\* Uncomment/\/\/ Uncomment/g' tests/Config.php
+sed -i "s/'SQLServer'/\/\* 'SQLServer'/g" tests/Config.php
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diff --git a/docker/centos7/packages.sh b/docker/centos7/packages.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# update should not be needed
+# yum -y upgdate
+# install: php / mysql / postgres / sqlite / tools
+yum -y install \
+php-cli php-xml \
+mariadb-server mariadb php-mysql \
+postgresql-server postgresql php-pgsql \
+sqlite php-sqlite3 \
+git wget
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diff --git a/docker/centos7/run.sh b/docker/centos7/run.sh
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+# initialize mysql
+mysql_install_db > /dev/null
+chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql
+# run mysql server
+nohup /usr/libexec/mysqld -u mysql > /root/mysql.log 2>&1 &
+# wait for mysql to become available
+while ! mysqladmin ping -hlocalhost >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+    sleep 1
+done
+# create database and user on mysql
+mysql -u root >/dev/null << 'EOF'
+CREATE DATABASE `php-crud-api` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
+CREATE USER 'php-crud-api'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'php-crud-api';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `php-crud-api`.* TO 'php-crud-api'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
+FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+EOF
+
+# initialize postgresql
+su - -c "/usr/bin/initdb --auth-local peer --auth-host password -D /var/lib/pgsql/data" postgres > /dev/null
+# run postgres server
+nohup su - -c "/usr/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data" postgres > /root/postgres.log 2>&1 &
+# wait for postgres to become available
+until su - -c "psql -U postgres -c '\q'" postgres >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+   sleep 1;
+done
+# create database and user on postgres
+su - -c "psql -U postgres >/dev/null" postgres << 'EOF'
+CREATE USER "php-crud-api" WITH PASSWORD 'php-crud-api';
+CREATE DATABASE "php-crud-api";
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE "php-crud-api" to "php-crud-api";
+\q
+EOF
+
+# run the tests
+cd /root/php-crud-api
+git pull
+php phpunit.phar