diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2010_x86_64 b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2010_x86_64
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+# ===========================================================================
+#   Script from the hdf5-manylinux repo: 
+#     https://github.com/h5py/hdf5-manylinux/blob/master/Dockerfile_x86_64
+# ===========================================================================
+
+FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux2010_x86_64
+
+ENV HDF5_DIR /usr/local
+ENV HDF5_VERSION 1.12.1
+
+COPY install_libaec.sh /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+COPY install_hdf5_centos.sh /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2014_aarch64 b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2014_aarch64
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+# ===========================================================================
+#   Script from the hdf5-manylinux repo: 
+#     https://github.com/h5py/hdf5-manylinux/blob/master/Dockerfile_aarch64
+# ===========================================================================
+
+FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64
+
+ENV HDF5_DIR /usr/local
+ENV HDF5_VERSION 1.12.1
+
+COPY install_libaec.sh /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+COPY install_hdf5_centos.sh /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2014_x86_64 b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2014_x86_64
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+FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64
+
+ENV HDF5_DIR /usr/local
+ENV HDF5_VERSION 1.12.1
+
+COPY install_libaec.sh /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+COPY install_hdf5_centos.sh /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2_24_aarch64 b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2_24_aarch64
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+FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_aarch64
+
+ENV HDF5_DIR /usr/local
+ENV HDF5_VERSION 1.12.1
+
+COPY install_libaec.sh /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+COPY install_hdf5_debian.sh /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2_24_x86_64 b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/Dockerfile_2_24_x86_64
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+FROM quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_24_x86_64
+
+ENV HDF5_DIR /usr/local
+ENV HDF5_VERSION 1.12.1
+
+COPY install_libaec.sh /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_libaec.sh
+COPY install_hdf5_debian.sh /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+RUN bash /tmp/install_hdf5.sh
+
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/build_images.sh b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/build_images.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -x
+set -e 
+
+# currently cannot build ARM64 images on the AMD64 platform due to the error:
+# standard_init_linux.go:219: exec user process caused: exec format error 
+#for tag in 2010_x86_64 2014_x86_64 2_24_x86_64 2014_aarch64 2_24_aarch64
+
+# build only x86_64 images
+for tag in 2010_x86_64 2014_x86_64 2_24_x86_64
+do
+    echo "Building image on ${tag} platform"
+    docker build -t hdf5_1_12_on_${tag} . -f Dockerfile_${tag}
+done
+
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/install_hdf5_centos.sh b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/install_hdf5_centos.sh
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+# ===========================================================================
+#   Script from the hdf5-manylinux repo: 
+#     https://github.com/h5py/hdf5-manylinux/blob/master/install_hdf5.sh
+# ===========================================================================
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+echo "Installing zlib with yum"
+yum -y install zlib-devel
+
+pushd /tmp
+
+# This seems to be needed to find libsz.so.2
+ldconfig
+
+echo "Downloading & unpacking HDF5 ${HDF5_VERSION}"
+#                                   Remove trailing .*, to get e.g. '1.12' ↓
+curl -fsSLO "https://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-${HDF5_VERSION%.*}/hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION/src/hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION.tar.gz"
+tar -xzvf hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION.tar.gz
+pushd hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION
+chmod u+x autogen.sh
+
+echo "Configuring, building & installing HDF5 ${HDF5_VERSION} to ${HDF5_DIR}"
+./configure --prefix $HDF5_DIR --enable-build-mode=production --with-szlib
+make -j $(nproc)
+make install
+popd
+
+# Clean up to limit the size of the Docker image
+echo "Cleaning up unnecessary files"
+rm -r hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION
+rm hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION.tar.gz
+
+yum -y erase zlib-devel
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/install_hdf5_debian.sh b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/install_hdf5_debian.sh
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+# ===========================================================================
+#   Debian-adapted script from the hdf5-manylinux repo: 
+#     https://github.com/h5py/hdf5-manylinux/blob/master/install_hdf5.sh
+# ===========================================================================
+
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+pushd /tmp
+
+# This seems to be needed to find libsz.so.2
+ldconfig
+
+echo "Downloading & unpacking HDF5 ${HDF5_VERSION}"
+#                                   Remove trailing .*, to get e.g. '1.12' ↓
+curl -fsSLO "https://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-${HDF5_VERSION%.*}/hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION/src/hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION.tar.gz"
+tar -xzvf hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION.tar.gz
+pushd hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION
+chmod u+x autogen.sh
+
+echo "Configuring, building & installing HDF5 ${HDF5_VERSION} to ${HDF5_DIR}"
+./configure --prefix $HDF5_DIR --enable-build-mode=production --with-szlib
+make -j $(nproc)
+make install
+popd
+
+# Clean up to limit the size of the Docker image
+echo "Cleaning up unnecessary files"
+rm -r hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION
+rm hdf5-$HDF5_VERSION.tar.gz
+
+apt-get -y remove zlib1g-dev
diff --git a/docker/hdf5-on-docker/install_libaec.sh b/docker/hdf5-on-docker/install_libaec.sh
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+# ===========================================================================
+#   Script from the hdf5-manylinux repo: 
+#     https://github.com/h5py/hdf5-manylinux/blob/master/install_libaec.sh
+# ===========================================================================
+
+
+# libaec implements szip compression, so the optional szip filter can be built
+# in HDF5.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+pushd /tmp
+
+aec_version="1.0.4"
+
+echo "Downloading libaec"
+# The URL includes a hash, so it needs to change if the version does
+curl -fsSLO https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec/uploads/ea0b7d197a950b0c110da8dfdecbb71f/libaec-${aec_version}.tar.gz
+tar zxf libaec-$aec_version.tar.gz
+
+echo "Building & installing libaec"
+pushd libaec-$aec_version
+./configure
+make
+make install
+
+# Clean up the files from the build
+popd
+rm -r libaec-$aec_version libaec-$aec_version.tar.gz