diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e4005ea..b15db45 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
 FROM debian:stable-slim
 
+ENV PRE_COMMIT_VERSION 2.13.0
+
+WORKDIR /pre-commit
+
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
       build-essential \
       git \
-      python-pip \
-      python3 && \
-      pip install pre-commit \
-      && mkdir /pre-commit && \
-      cd /pre-commit && \
-      git init . && \
-      pre-commit install
+      python3-pip \
+      python3 \
+      && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+      
+RUN git init .
 
-WORKDIR /pre-commit
+RUN pip3 install pre-commit==${PRE_COMMIT_VERSION} && \      
+      pre-commit install
 
 CMD ["pre-commit", "run", "--all-files"]
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e5360f3..34ee322 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 [Pre-commit](http://pre-commit.com/) is a tool created by Yelp that allows you to run pre-commit sanity checks against your repo, to do things like ensuring private keys aren't being added etc. This image packages `pre-commit` in a docker-container, so you can ship it with a setup script you might be using to setup local development environment.
 
 # Usage
-- Create `.pre-commit-config.yaml` in the root of your repo. For example   
+- Create `.pre-commit-config.yaml` in the root of your repo. For example
 
   ```yaml
   - repo: git://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
@@ -19,21 +19,33 @@
   ```
 - Add `pre-commit` script to `.git/hooks/pre-commit`  
   ```shell
-  cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+  #!/bin/sh
+  toplevel="`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`"
+  cd "$toplevel"
 
-  NAME=$(basename `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`)_precommit
-  docker ps -a | grep $NAME &> /dev/null
-  CONTAINER_EXISTS=$?
+  NAME="`basename "$toplevel"`_precommit"
 
-  if [[ CONTAINER_EXISTS -eq 0 ]]; then
-      docker restart $NAME && docker attach --no-stdin $NAME
+  if command -v podman > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+      container_exec=podman
+  elif command -v docker > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+      container_exec=docker
   else
-      docker run -t -v $(pwd):/pre-commit --name $NAME taghash/pre-commit
+      echo "No container executable found! Looked for \`podman' and \`docker'."
+      exit 1
   fi
+  test -n "`"$container_exec" ps -a -q --no-trunc --filter 'name=^/?'"$NAME"'$'`"
+  CONTAINER_EXISTS=$?
 
+  if [ "$CONTAINER_EXISTS" -eq 0 ]; then
+      "$container_exec" restart "$NAME" && "$container_exec" attach --no-stdin "$NAME"
+  else
+      "$container_exec" run -t -v $(pwd):/pre-commit --name "$NAME" alexs77/pre-commit
+  fi
   ```
 - Create an empty commit to test  
-  ```git commit --allow-empty -m "Test pre-commit"```
+  ```shell
+  git commit --allow-empty -m "Test pre-commit"
+  ```
 
 # Note
 - If you are going to use a `pre-commit` plugin that needs dependencies not packaged in this image, you can extend this image and install the dependencies you need
@@ -41,7 +53,5 @@
   For example, if you add `{ id: detect-aws-credentials }` to `.pre-commit-config.yaml`, you have to mount the directory holding your aws credentials.  
   The docker command (as in the `pre-commit` script) would then become  
   ```shell
-  docker run -t -v $(pwd):/pre-commit -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws:ro --name $NAME taghash/pre-commit
+  "$container_exec" run -t -v $(pwd):/pre-commit -v $HOME/.aws:/root/.aws:ro --name $NAME alexs77/pre-commit
   ```
-
-
diff --git a/pre-commit b/pre-commit
index 67e0f23..b7e6bd4 100644
--- a/pre-commit
+++ b/pre-commit
@@ -1,11 +1,22 @@
-cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+#!/bin/sh
+toplevel="`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`"
+cd "$toplevel"
 
-NAME=$(basename `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`)_precommit
-docker ps -a | grep nucleus_precommit &> /dev/null
+NAME="`basename "$toplevel"`_precommit"
+
+if command -v podman > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    container_exec=podman
+elif command -v docker > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    container_exec=docker
+else
+    echo "No container executable found! Looked for \`podman' and \`docker'."
+    exit 1
+fi
+test -n "`"$container_exec" ps -a -q --no-trunc --filter 'name=^/?'"$NAME"'$'`"
 CONTAINER_EXISTS=$?
 
-if [[ CONTAINER_EXISTS -eq 0 ]]; then
-    docker restart $NAME && docker attach --no-stdin $NAME
+if [ "$CONTAINER_EXISTS" -eq 0 ]; then
+    "$container_exec" restart "$NAME" && "$container_exec" attach --no-stdin "$NAME"
 else
-    docker run -t -v $(pwd):/pre-commit --name $NAME taghash/pre-commit
+    "$container_exec" run -t -v $(pwd):/pre-commit --name "$NAME" alexs77/pre-commit
 fi