diff --git a/config/version/version.go b/config/version/version.go
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+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+// Package version is used to inject build time information via -X variables
+package version
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Default build-time variable.
+// These values can (should) be overridden via ldflags when built with
+// `make`
+var (
+	version   = "unknown-version"
+	goVersion = "unknown-goversion"
+	vcsRef    = "unknown-vcsref"
+	vcsDirty  = "unknown-vcsdirty"
+	buildTime = "unknown-buildtime"
+	os        = "unknown-os"
+	arch      = "unknown-arch"
+)
+
+// InfoType is a collection of build time environment variables
+type InfoType struct {
+	Version   string `json:"version"`
+	GoVersion string `json:"goversion"`
+	VcsRef    string `json:"vcsref"`
+	VcsDirty  string `json:"vcsdirty"`
+	BuildTime string `json:"buildtime"`
+	Os        string `json:"os"`
+	Arch      string `json:"arch"`
+}
+
+// VersionInfo is an instance of build time environment variables populated at build time via -X arguments
+var VersionInfo InfoType
+
+func init() {
+	VersionInfo = InfoType{
+		Version:   version,
+		VcsRef:    vcsRef,
+		VcsDirty:  vcsDirty,
+		GoVersion: goVersion,
+		Os:        os,
+		Arch:      arch,
+		BuildTime: buildTime,
+	}
+}
+
+func (v InfoType) String(indent string) string {
+	builder := strings.Builder{}
+
+	builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%sVersion:      %s\n", indent, VersionInfo.Version))
+	builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%sGoVersion:    %s\n", indent, VersionInfo.GoVersion))
+	builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%sVCS Ref:      %s\n", indent, VersionInfo.VcsRef))
+	builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%sVCS Dirty:    %s\n", indent, VersionInfo.VcsDirty))
+	builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%sBuilt:        %s\n", indent, VersionInfo.BuildTime))
+	builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%sOS/Arch:      %s/%s\n", indent, VersionInfo.Os, VersionInfo.Arch))
+	return builder.String()
+}