diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8eb99d52f..8fd6b54e5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,8 +147,58 @@ To run kaniko in Docker, run the following command:
 
 kaniko uses Docker credential helpers to push images to a registry.
 
-kaniko comes with support for GCR, but configuring another credential helper should allow pushing to a different registry.
+kaniko comes with support for GCR and Amazon ECR, but configuring another credential helper should allow pushing to a different registry.
 
+#### Pushing to Amazon ECR
+The Amazon ECR [credential helper](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper) is built in to the kaniko executor image.
+To configure credentials, you will need to do the following:
+1. Update the `credHelpers` section of [config.json](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/blob/master/files/config.json) with the specific URI of your ECR registry:
+```json
+{
+	"credHelpers": {
+		"aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com": "ecr-login"
+	}
+}
+```
+You can mount in the new config as a configMap:
+```shell
+kubectl create configmap docker-config --from-file=<path to config.json>
+```
+2. Create a Kubernetes secret for your `~/.aws/credentials` file so that credentials can be accessed within the cluster.
+To create the secret, run:
+
+```shell
+kubectl create secret generic aws-secret --from-file=<path to .aws/credentials>
+```
+
+The Kubernetes Pod spec should look similar to this, with the args parameters filled in:
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Pod
+metadata:
+  name: kaniko
+spec:
+  containers:
+  - name: kaniko
+    image: gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest
+    args: ["--dockerfile=<path to Dockerfile>",
+            "--context=<path to build context>",
+            "--destination=<aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/my-repository:my-tag>"]
+    volumeMounts:
+      - name: aws-secret
+        mountPath: /root/.aws/
+      - name: docker-config
+        mountPath: /root/.docker/
+  restartPolicy: Never
+  volumes:
+    - name: aws-secret
+      secret:
+        secretName: aws-secret
+    - name: docker-config
+      configMap:
+        name: docker-config
+```
 ### Debug Image
 
 The kaniko executor image is based off of scratch and doesn't contain a shell.
diff --git a/cmd/executor/cmd/root.go b/cmd/executor/cmd/root.go
index 6a4fd546e..2e5d0a66a 100644
--- a/cmd/executor/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/executor/cmd/root.go
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ func init() {
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&srcContext, "context", "c", "/workspace/", "Path to the dockerfile build context.")
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&bucket, "bucket", "b", "", "Name of the GCS bucket from which to access build context as tarball.")
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&destination, "destination", "d", "", "Registry the final image should be pushed to (ex: gcr.io/test/example:latest)")
+	RootCmd.MarkPersistentFlagRequired("destination")
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&snapshotMode, "snapshotMode", "", "full", "Set this flag to change the file attributes inspected during snapshotting")
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&dockerInsecureSkipTLSVerify, "insecure-skip-tls-verify", "", false, "Push to insecure registry ignoring TLS verify")
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&logLevel, "verbosity", "v", constants.DefaultLogLevel, "Log level (debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic")
diff --git a/deploy/Dockerfile b/deploy/Dockerfile
index 1b93031bd..054b5fdd5 100644
--- a/deploy/Dockerfile
+++ b/deploy/Dockerfile
@@ -18,13 +18,17 @@ FROM golang:1.10
 WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko
 COPY . .
 RUN make
-WORKDIR /usr/local/bin
-ADD https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/docker-credential-gcr/releases/download/v1.4.3-static/docker-credential-gcr_linux_amd64-1.4.3.tar.gz .
-RUN tar -xvzf /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-gcr_linux_amd64-1.4.3.tar.gz
+# Get GCR credential helper
+ADD https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/docker-credential-gcr/releases/download/v1.4.3-static/docker-credential-gcr_linux_amd64-1.4.3.tar.gz /usr/local/bin/
+RUN tar -C /usr/local/bin/ -xvzf /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-gcr_linux_amd64-1.4.3.tar.gz
+# Get Amazon ECR credential helper
+RUN go get -u github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper/ecr-login/cli/docker-credential-ecr-login
+RUN make -C /go/src/github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper linux-amd64
 
 FROM scratch
 COPY --from=0 /go/src/github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/out/executor /kaniko/executor
 COPY --from=0 /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-gcr /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-gcr
+COPY --from=0 /go/src/github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper/bin/linux-amd64/docker-credential-ecr-login /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-ecr-login
 COPY files/ca-certificates.crt /kaniko/ssl/certs/
 COPY files/config.json /root/.docker/
 RUN ["docker-credential-gcr", "config", "--token-source=env"]
diff --git a/integration_tests/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_copy b/integration_tests/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_copy
index 99c179c11..fd184394d 100644
--- a/integration_tests/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_copy
+++ b/integration_tests/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_copy
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM gcr.io/distroless/base
+FROM alpine:3.7
 COPY context/foo foo
 COPY context/foo /foodir/
 COPY context/bar/b* bar/
diff --git a/pkg/commands/commands.go b/pkg/commands/commands.go
index 0d8e6cafa..dc3ea66e1 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/commands.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/commands.go
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ func GetCommand(cmd instructions.Command, buildcontext string) (DockerCommand, e
 		return &VolumeCommand{cmd: c}, nil
 	case *instructions.StopSignalCommand:
 		return &StopSignalCommand{cmd: c}, nil
+	case *instructions.ShellCommand:
+		return &ShellCommand{cmd: c}, nil
 	case *instructions.MaintainerCommand:
 		logrus.Warnf("%s is deprecated, skipping", cmd.Name())
 		return nil, nil
diff --git a/pkg/util/fs_util.go b/pkg/util/fs_util.go
index 3d8b46bc5..f167f18a5 100644
--- a/pkg/util/fs_util.go
+++ b/pkg/util/fs_util.go
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ func GetFSFromImage(img v1.Image) error {
 				logrus.Infof("Not adding %s because it is whitelisted", path)
 				continue
 			}
+			if hdr.Typeflag == tar.TypeSymlink {
+				if checkWhitelist(hdr.Linkname, whitelist) {
+					logrus.Debugf("skipping symlink from %s to %s because %s is whitelisted", hdr.Linkname, path, hdr.Linkname)
+					continue
+				}
+			}
 			fs[path] = struct{}{}
 
 			if err := extractFile("/", hdr, tr); err != nil {