diff --git a/26/base/Dockerfile b/26/base/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86ffb67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/26/base/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# tags=articulate/node:26
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
+FROM node:26-bookworm-slim
+
+ENV SERVICE_ROOT=/service SERVICE_USER=service SERVICE_UID=1001 NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/aws-rds-global-bundle.pem
+
+ARG TARGETARCH
+
+ADD --chmod=755 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/articulate/docker-bootstrap/main/scripts/install_packages /usr/local/bin/install_packages
+ADD --chmod=755 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/articulate/docker-bootstrap/main/scripts/awscli.sh /tmp/awscli.sh
+# Add AWS RDS CA trusted root certificates for node
+ADD --chmod=644 https://truststore.pki.rds.amazonaws.com/global/global-bundle.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/aws-rds-global-bundle.pem
+
+RUN install_packages make dumb-init ca-certificates && /tmp/awscli.sh && rm /tmp/awscli.sh \
+    # Create our own user and remove the node user
+    && groupadd --gid $SERVICE_UID $SERVICE_USER \
+    && useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash --gid $SERVICE_UID --uid $SERVICE_UID $SERVICE_USER \
+    && userdel -r node \
+    # Enable Corepack
+    && npm install --global corepack@0.34.6 \
+    && corepack enable \
+    # Split PEM bundle into individual cert files for update-ca-certificates
+    && csplit -s -z -n 3 -f /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/aws-rds-ca- \
+      /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/aws-rds-global-bundle.pem  \
+      '/-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----/' '{*}' \
+    && for f in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/aws-rds-ca-*; do mv "$f" "$f.crt"; done \
+    && update-ca-certificates
+
+ADD --chmod=755 https://github.com/articulate/docker-bootstrap/releases/latest/download/docker-bootstrap_linux_${TARGETARCH} /entrypoint
+ADD --chmod=755 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/articulate/docker-bootstrap/main/scripts/docker-secrets /usr/local/bin/secrets
+ADD --chmod=755 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it/81b1373f17855a4dc21156cfe1694c31d7d1792e/wait-for-it.sh /wait-for-it.sh
+
+USER $SERVICE_USER
+WORKDIR $SERVICE_ROOT
+
+# Our entrypoint will pull in our environment variables from Consul and Vault,
+# and execute whatever command we provided the container.
+# See https://github.com/articulate/docker-bootstrap
+ENTRYPOINT [ "dumb-init", "--", "/entrypoint" ]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87dcb13..6736a65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Base Node.js Docker images.
 
 > 🌟 recommended image
 
+* __articulate/node:26__ 🌟
 * __articulate/node:24__ 🌟
 * articulate/node:24-lambda
 * __articulate/node:22__ 🌟