diff --git a/Dockerfile.synchronizer b/Dockerfile.synchronizer
index 0cda6d2..fa29601 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.synchronizer
+++ b/Dockerfile.synchronizer
@@ -12,8 +12,16 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+# docker build -t xosproject/mcord-synchronizer:candidate -f Dockerfile.synchronizer .
+
 # xosproject/mcord-synchronizer
-FROM xosproject/xos-synchronizer-base:2.2.5
+
+FROM xosproject/alpine-grpc-base:0.9.0
+
+# Install pip packages
+COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
+RUN pip install -r /tmp/requirements.txt \
+ && pip freeze > /var/xos/pip_freeze_mcord_service_`date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S`
 
 COPY xos/synchronizer /opt/xos/synchronizers/mcord
 COPY VERSION /opt/xos/synchronizers/mcord/
@@ -51,4 +59,5 @@
       org.opencord.component.xos.vcs-url=$org_opencord_component_xos_vcs_url \
       org.opencord.component.xos.vcs-ref=$org_opencord_component_xos_vcs_ref
 
-CMD bash -c "cd /opt/xos/synchronizers/mcord; ./run-from-api.sh"
+CMD ["/usr/bin/python", "/opt/xos/synchronizers/mcord/mcord-synchronizer.py"]
+
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8776660
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Copyright 2019-present Open Networking Foundation
+#
+# 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.
+
+# Configure shell
+SHELL = bash -e -o pipefail
+
+# Variables
+VERSION                  ?= $(shell cat ./VERSION)
+SERVICE_NAME             ?= $(notdir $(abspath .))
+SYNCHRONIZER_NAME        ?= mcord-synchronizer
+
+## Docker related
+DOCKER_REGISTRY          ?=
+DOCKER_REPOSITORY        ?=
+DOCKER_BUILD_ARGS        ?=
+DOCKER_TAG               ?= ${VERSION}
+DOCKER_IMAGENAME         := ${DOCKER_REGISTRY}${DOCKER_REPOSITORY}${SYNCHRONIZER_NAME}:${DOCKER_TAG}
+
+## Docker labels. Only set ref and commit date if committed
+DOCKER_LABEL_VCS_URL     ?= $(shell git remote get-url $(shell git remote))
+DOCKER_LABEL_VCS_REF     ?= $(shell git diff-index --quiet HEAD -- && git rev-parse HEAD || echo "unknown")
+DOCKER_LABEL_COMMIT_DATE ?= $(shell git diff-index --quiet HEAD -- && git show -s --format=%cd --date=iso-strict HEAD || echo "unknown" )
+DOCKER_LABEL_BUILD_DATE  ?= $(shell date -u "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
+
+## Migration related - paths are relative to the xos subdirectory within this repo
+XOS_DIR                  ?= "../../../xos"
+SERVICES_DIR             ?= "../.."
+
+all: test
+
+docker-build:
+	docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_ARGS) \
+    -t ${DOCKER_IMAGENAME} \
+    --build-arg org_label_schema_version="${VERSION}" \
+    --build-arg org_label_schema_vcs_url="${DOCKER_LABEL_VCS_URL}" \
+    --build-arg org_label_schema_vcs_ref="${DOCKER_LABEL_VCS_REF}" \
+    --build-arg org_label_schema_build_date="${DOCKER_LABEL_BUILD_DATE}" \
+    --build-arg org_opencord_vcs_commit_date="${DOCKER_LABEL_COMMIT_DATE}" \
+    -f Dockerfile.synchronizer .
+
+docker-push:
+	docker push ${DOCKER_IMAGENAME}
+
+test: test-unit test-migration test-xproto
+
+test-unit:
+	tox
+
+venv-service:
+	virtualenv $@;\
+    source ./$@/bin/activate ; set -u ;\
+    pip install -r requirements.txt xosmigrate~=3.2.6
+
+create-migration: venv-service
+	source ./venv-service/bin/activate; set -u;\
+    cd xos; xos-migrate --xos-dir ${XOS_DIR} --services-dir ${SERVICES_DIR} -s ${SERVICE_NAME}
+
+test-migration: venv-service
+	source ./venv-service/bin/activate; set -u;\
+    cd xos; xos-migrate --xos-dir ${XOS_DIR} --services-dir ${SERVICES_DIR} -s ${SERVICE_NAME} --check
+
+test-xproto: venv-service
+	source ./venv-service/bin/activate; set -u;\
+    xosgenx --lint --strict xos/synchronizer/models/mcord.xproto
+
+clean:
+	find . -name '*.pyc' | xargs rm -f
+	rm -rf \
+    .tox \
+    venv-service \
+    xos/.coverage \
+    xos/coverage.xml \
+    xos/nose2-results.xml
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f1547e6..fc93712 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.0.7
+2.0.8-dev
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..669c29b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+xossynchronizer~=3.2.1
+xosapi~=3.2.1
+xoskafka~=3.2.1
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9064a11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+; Copyright 2019-present Open Networking Foundation
+;
+; 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.
+
+[tox]
+envlist = py27
+; future; envlist = py27,py35,py36,py37
+skip_missing_interpreters = true
+skipsdist = True
+
+[testenv]
+deps =
+  -r requirements.txt
+  requests_mock
+  nose2
+;  flake8
+
+changedir = xos
+commands =
+  nose2 -c ../tox.ini --verbose --junit-xml
+; future: flake8
+
+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 119
+
+[unittest]
+plugins = nose2.plugins.junitxml
+
+[junit-xml]
+path = nose2-results.xml
+
+[coverage]
+always-on = True
+coverage-report =
+  term
+  xml
diff --git a/xos/synchronizer/run-from-api.sh b/xos/synchronizer/run-from-api.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 8623ab3..0000000
--- a/xos/synchronizer/run-from-api.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-
-# Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Foundation
-#
-# 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.
-
-
-python mcord-synchronizer.py