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+# Copyright 2016 the original author or authors.
+#
+# 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 ubuntu:xenial
+
+MAINTAINER Voltha Community <info@opennetworking.org>
+
+# Update to have latest images
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y python python-pip openssl iproute2 libpcap-dev wget
+
+COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
+
+# pip install cython enum34 six && \
+# Install app dependencies
+RUN wget https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init/releases/download/v1.2.0/dumb-init_1.2.0_amd64.deb && \
+    dpkg -i *.deb && \
+    rm -f *.deb && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y wget build-essential make gcc binutils python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev git && \
+    pip install -r /tmp/requirements.txt && \
+    apt-get purge -y wget build-essential make gcc binutils python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev git && \
+    apt-get autoremove -y