diff --git a/automation/Dockerfile b/automation/Dockerfile.automation
similarity index 81%
rename from automation/Dockerfile
rename to automation/Dockerfile.automation
index 32f1513..856c19f 100644
--- a/automation/Dockerfile
+++ b/automation/Dockerfile.automation
@@ -11,13 +11,17 @@
 ## WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 ## See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 ## limitations under the License.
-FROM golang:1.7-alpine
+FROM golang:1.7-alpine as builder
 MAINTAINER Open Networking Laboratory <info@onlab.us>
 
-RUN mkdir /service
 WORKDIR /go
 ADD . /go/src/gerrit.opencord.org/maas/cord-maas-automation
-RUN go build -o /service/entry-point gerrit.opencord.org/maas/cord-maas-automation
+RUN go build -o /build/entry-point gerrit.opencord.org/maas/cord-maas-automation
+
+FROM alpine:3.5
+MAINTAINER Open Networking Laboratory <info@onlab.us>
+
+COPY --from=builder /build/entry-point /service/entry-point
 
 LABEL org.label-schema.name="automation" \
       org.label-schema.description="Provides automation of the compute node deployment and provisioning process" \
diff --git a/automation/Dockerfile.release b/automation/Dockerfile.release
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e24b05..0000000
--- a/automation/Dockerfile.release
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright 2017 Open Networking Laboratory
-##
-## Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-## you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-## You may obtain a copy of the License at
-##
-## http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-##
-## Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-## distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-## WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-## See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-## limitations under the License.
-FROM alpine:3.5
-MAINTAINER Open Networking Laboratory <info@onlab.us>
-
-ADD entry-point /service/entry-point
-
-LABEL org.label-schema.name="automation" \
-      org.label-schema.description="Provides automation of the compute node deployment and provisioning process" \
-      org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://gerrit.opencord.org/maas" \
-      org.label-schema.vendor="Open Networking Laboratory" \
-      org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0"
-
-WORKDIR /service
-ENTRYPOINT ["/service/entry-point"]
diff --git a/automation/Makefile b/automation/Makefile
index 275f611..a5bee6e 100644
--- a/automation/Makefile
+++ b/automation/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,5 @@
-IMAGE_NAME=cord-maas-automation
-BINARY=entry-point
-BUILD_TAG=build
-PACKAGE_TAG=candidate
+IMAGES+=automation
 
-.PHONY: help
-help:
-	@echo "build     - create the binary"
-	@echo "package   - package the binary into a docker container"
-	@echo "clean     - remove tempory files and build artifacts"
-	@echo "help      - this message"
+automation.image: Dockerfile.automation *.go vendor/vendor.json
 
-BUILD_DATE=$(shell date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%TZ)
-VCS_REF=$(shell git log --pretty=format:%H -n 1)
-VCS_REF_DATE=$(shell git log --pretty=format:%cd --date=format:%FT%T%z -n 1)
-BRANCHES=$(shell repo --color=never --no-pager branches 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
-STATUS=$(shell repo --color=never --no-pager status . | tail -n +2 | wc -l)
-MODIFIED=$(shell test $(BRANCHES) -eq 0 && test $(STATUS) -eq 0 || echo "[modified]")
-BRANCH=$(shell repo --color=never --no-pager info -l -o | grep 'Manifest branch:' | awk '{print $$NF}')
-VERSION=$(BRANCH)$(MODIFIED)
-
-.PHONY: build
-build:
-	docker build -t $(IMAGE_NAME):$(BUILD_TAG) .
-
-.PHONY: package
-package:
-	$(eval BUILD_ID := $(shell docker create $(IMAGE_NAME):$(BUILD_TAG)))
-	$(eval BINDIR := $(shell mktemp -d))
-	docker cp $(BUILD_ID):/service/$(BINARY) $(BINDIR)/$(BINARY)
-	cp Dockerfile.release $(BINDIR)
-	docker build -f $(BINDIR)/Dockerfile.release -t $(IMAGE_NAME):$(PACKAGE_TAG) --label org.label-schema.build-date=$(BUILD_DATE) --label org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$(VCS_REF) --label org.label-schema.vcs-ref-date=$(VCS_REF_DATE) --label org.label-schema.version=$(VERSION) $(BINDIR)
-	docker rm -f $(BUILD_ID)
-	rm -r $(BINDIR)
-
-.PHONY: clean
-clean:
-	@echo ""
+include ../rules.mk