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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:16.04
+
+# Update to have latest images
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        ca-certificates=20170717~16.04.2 \
+	python=2.7.12-1~16.04 \
+	openssl=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.15 \
+	iproute2=4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.5 \
+	libpcap-dev=1.7.4-2 \
+	wget=1.17.1-1ubuntu1.5 \
+	build-essential=12.1ubuntu2 \
+	git=1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.6 \
+	binutils=2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8 \
+	python-dev=2.7.12-1~16.04 \
+	libffi-dev=3.2.1-4 \
+	libssl-dev=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.15 \
+	&& apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install current version of pip rather than outdated pip from apt
+RUN wget -O /tmp/get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
+RUN python /tmp/get-pip.py
+
+# Install adapter requirements.
+COPY requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
+RUN pip install -r /tmp/requirements.txt
+
+# Label image
+ARG org_label_schema_version=unknown
+ARG org_label_schema_vcs_url=unknown
+ARG org_label_schema_vcs_ref=unknown
+ARG org_label_schema_build_date=unknown
+ARG org_opencord_vcs_commit_date=unknown
+
+LABEL org.label-schema.schema-version=1.0 \
+      org.label-schema.name=voltha-python-base \
+      org.label-schema.version=$org_label_schema_version \
+      org.label-schema.vcs-url=$org_label_schema_vcs_url \
+      org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$org_label_schema_vcs_ref \
+      org.label-schema.build-date=$org_label_schema_build_date \
+      org.opencord.vcs-commit-date=$org_opencord_vcs_commit_date