diff --git a/8/Dockerfile b/8/Dockerfile
index c57f67e2..2a8aab91 100644
--- a/8/Dockerfile
+++ b/8/Dockerfile
@@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ EXPOSE 9000
 COPY templates /etc/gotpl/
 COPY docker-entrypoint.sh /
 COPY bin /usr/local/bin/
+COPY init /docker-entrypoint-init.d/
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
 CMD ["sudo", "-E", "php-fpm"]
diff --git a/8/init/90_wodby_init.sh b/8/init/90_wodby_init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..85542171
--- /dev/null
+++ b/8/init/90_wodby_init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+if [[ -n "${DEBUG}" ]]; then
+    set -x
+fi
+
+# Applies the service init action on container start.
+#
+# The init action prepares the application codebase for this image, for example
+# by wiring the generated Wodby config into the application's own settings file
+# and symlinking public files to the persistent volume. Its steps are guarded
+# and idempotent, so when the image was built with the init action already
+# applied this is a no-op.
+#
+# WODBY_INIT_ACTION names a target in /usr/local/bin/actions.mk and is provided
+# as an environment variable rather than baked into the image, so the init
+# action is applied no matter which Dockerfile produced the image.
+#
+# This file is sourced by exec_init_scripts, not executed in a subshell. Do not
+# use "exit" here, it would terminate the entrypoint and stop the container.
+if [[ -n "${WODBY_INIT_ACTION}" ]]; then
+    echo "Applying init action: ${WODBY_INIT_ACTION}"
+    make "${WODBY_INIT_ACTION}" -f /usr/local/bin/actions.mk
+fi