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+# Copyright 2018 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.
+
+ARG REGISTRY=
+ARG PROTOC_PREFIX=/usr/local
+ARG ROTOC_LIBDIR=${PROTOC_PREFIX}/lib
+ARG PROTOC=${PROTOC_PREFIX}/bin/protoc
+ARG PROTOC_VERSION=3.3.0
+
+FROM ${REGISTRY}debian:stretch-slim
+MAINTAINER Voltha Community <info@opennetworking.org>
+
+ENV PROTOC_PREFIX=/usr/local
+ENV ROTOC_LIBDIR=${PROTOC_PREFIX}/lib
+ENV PROTOC=${PROTOC_PREFIX}/bin/protoc
+ENV PROTOC_VERSION=3.3.0
+ENV PROTOC_DOWNLOAD_PREFIX=https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download
+ENV PROTOC_DIR=protobuf-${PROTOC_VERSION}
+ENV PROTOC_TARBALL=protobuf-python-${PROTOC_VERSION}.tar.gz
+ENV PROTOC_DOWNLOAD_URI=${PROTOC_DOWNLOAD_PREFIX}/v${PROTOC_VERSION}/${PROTOC_TARBALL}
+
+RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y wget build-essential python-dev python-pip
+RUN pip install --upgrade pip && pip install grpcio-tools==1.3.5
+WORKDIR /build
+RUN wget -q --no-check-certificate ${PROTOC_DOWNLOAD_URI}
+RUN tar --strip-components=1 -zxf ${PROTOC_TARBALL}
+RUN ./configure --prefix=${PROTOC_PREFIX}
+RUN make install