diff --git a/.env b/.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e124360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+# Vars for testing. Pipenv will load these automatically
+PYTHONPATH=./shared-components/tests:$PYTHONPATH
+DOCKERFILE='Dockerfile'
+DOCKERFILE_VERSION_ARG='CONFLUENCE_VERSION'
+MAC_PRODUCT_KEY='confluence'
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index efe13e6..e470ef7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ FROM $BASE_IMAGE
 LABEL maintainer="dc-deployments@atlassian.com"
 LABEL securitytxt="https://www.atlassian.com/.well-known/security.txt"
 
+ENV APP_NAME                                        confluence
 ENV RUN_USER                                        confluence
 ENV RUN_GROUP                                       confluence
 ENV RUN_UID                                         2002
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ RUN groupadd --gid ${RUN_GID} ${RUN_GROUP} \
 VOLUME ["${CONFLUENCE_HOME}"] # Must be declared after setting perms
 
 COPY entrypoint.py \
+     shutdown-wait.sh \
      shared-components/image/entrypoint_helpers.py  /
 COPY shared-components/support                      /opt/atlassian/support
 COPY config/*                                       /opt/atlassian/etc/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e176e7a..8772749 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -390,6 +390,17 @@ using an external database.
 
 Read more about data recovery and backups: [Site Backup and Restore][10]
 
+# Shutdown
+
+Confluence allows a grace period of 20s for active operations to finish before
+termination. If sending a `docker stop` this should be taken into account with
+the `--time` flag.
+
+Alternatively, the script `/shutdown-wait.sh` is provided, which will initiate a
+clean shutdown and wait for the process to complete. This is the recommended
+method for shutdown in environments which provide for orderly shutdown,
+e.g. Kubernetes via the `preStop` hook.
+
 # Versioning
 
 The `latest` tag matches the most recent official release of Atlassian Confluence Server.
diff --git a/shutdown-wait.sh b/shutdown-wait.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d29fc4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shutdown-wait.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+##############################################################################
+#
+# This script will initiate a clean shutdown of the application, and
+# then wait for the process to finish before returning. This is
+# primarily intended for use in environments that provide an orderly
+# shutdown mechanism, in particular the Kubernetes `preStop` hook.
+#
+# This script will wait for the process to exit indefinitely; however
+# most run-time tools (including Docker and Kubernetes) have their own
+# shutdown timeouts that will send a SIGKILL if the grace period is
+# exceeded.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+set -e
+
+source /opt/atlassian/support/common.sh
+
+echo "Shutting down Confluence..."
+echo ${JVM_APP_PID} > ${CONFLUENCE_INSTALL_DIR}/work/catalina.pid
+
+if [[ "${UID}" == 0 ]]; then
+    /bin/su ${RUN_USER} -c ${CONFLUENCE_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/stop-confluence.sh;
+else
+    ${CONFLUENCE_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/stop-confluence.sh;
+fi
+
+/opt/atlassian/support/wait-pid.sh
diff --git a/tests/test_image.py b/tests/test_image.py
index d87bf53..192bb22 100644
--- a/tests/test_image.py
+++ b/tests/test_image.py
@@ -56,6 +56,17 @@ def test_clean_shutdown(docker_cli, image, run_user):
     wait_for_log(container, end)
 
 
+def test_shutdown_script(docker_cli, image, run_user):
+    container = docker_cli.containers.run(image, detach=True, user=run_user, ports={PORT: PORT})
+    host = testinfra.get_host("docker://"+container.id)
+    wait_for_state(STATUS_URL, expected_state='FIRST_RUN')
+
+    container.exec_run('/shutdown-wait.sh')
+
+    end = r'org\.apache\.coyote\.AbstractProtocol\.destroy Destroying ProtocolHandler'
+    wait_for_log(container, end)
+
+
 def test_server_xml_defaults(docker_cli, image):
     container = run_image(docker_cli, image)
     _jvm = wait_for_proc(container, get_bootstrap_proc(container))