diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 04fe89e09..98e9ecb18 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ lazy val apiDockerSettings = Seq(
   dockerBaseImage := "openjdk:8u171-jdk",
   dockerUsername := Some("vinyldns"),
   packageName in Docker := "api",
+  dockerUpdateLatest := true,
   dockerExposedPorts := Seq(9000),
   dockerEntrypoint := Seq("/opt/docker/bin/boot"),
   dockerExposedVolumes := Seq("/opt/docker/lib_extra"), // mount extra libs to the classpath
@@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ lazy val portalDockerSettings = Seq(
   dockerBaseImage := "openjdk:8u171-jdk",
   dockerUsername := Some("vinyldns"),
   packageName in Docker := "portal",
+  dockerUpdateLatest := true,
   dockerExposedPorts := Seq(9001),
   dockerExposedVolumes := Seq("/opt/docker/lib_extra"), // mount extra libs to the classpath
   dockerExposedVolumes := Seq("/opt/docker/conf"), // mount extra config to the classpath
@@ -159,6 +161,12 @@ lazy val apiPublishSettings = Seq(
   publish := (publish in Docker).value
 )
 
+lazy val portalPublishSettings = Seq(
+  publishArtifact := false,
+  publishLocal := (publishLocal in Docker).value,
+  publish := (publish in Docker).value
+)
+
 lazy val pbSettings = Seq(
   version in ProtobufConfig := "2.6.1"
 )
@@ -230,7 +238,7 @@ val createJsHeaders = TaskKey[Unit]("createJsHeaders", "Runs script to prepend A
 lazy val portal = (project in file("modules/portal")).enablePlugins(PlayScala, AutomateHeaderPlugin)
   .settings(sharedSettings)
   .settings(testSettings)
-  .settings(noPublishSettings)
+  .settings(portalPublishSettings)
   .settings(portalDockerSettings)
   .settings(
     name := "portal",
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose-build.yml b/docker/docker-compose-build.yml
index 7d4911ed1..cd3c496bf 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose-build.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose-build.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ services:
       - ./elasticmq/custom.conf:/etc/elasticmq/elasticmq.conf
 
   api:
-    image: "vinyldns/api:0.1" # the version of the api image we want to pull
+    image: "vinyldns/api:latest"
     environment:
       - REST_PORT=9000
     container_name: "vinyldns-api"
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ services:
       - dynamodb
 
   portal:
-    image: "vinyldns/portal:0.1" # the version of the portal image we want to pull
+    image: "vinyldns/portal:latest"
     ports:
       - "9001:9001"
     container_name: "vinyldns-portal"