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+## 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"]