diff --git a/tools/images/vbmc/Dockerfile b/tools/images/vbmc/Dockerfile
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+FROM centos:7
+MAINTAINER pete.birley@att.com
+
+ARG PROJECT=nova
+ARG UID=42424
+ARG GID=42424
+
+RUN set -ex ;\
+    yum -y upgrade ;\
+    yum -y install \
+      epel-release \
+      centos-release-openstack-newton \
+      centos-release-qemu-ev ;\
+    yum -y install \
+      ceph-common \
+      git \
+      libcgroup-tools \
+      libguestfs \
+      libvirt \
+      libvirt-daemon \
+      libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter \
+      libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc \
+      libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter \
+      libvirt-devel \
+      openvswitch \
+      python-devel \
+      qemu-kvm ;\
+    yum -y group install \
+      "Development Tools" ;\
+    yum clean all ;\
+    rm -rf /var/cache/yum ;\
+    curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o /tmp/get-pip.py ;\
+    python /tmp/get-pip.py ;\
+    rm -f /tmp/get-pip.py ;\
+    TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d) ;\
+    git clone https://github.com/openstack/virtualbmc ${TMP_DIR} ;\
+    pip install -U ${TMP_DIR} ;\
+    rm -rf ${TMP_DIR} ;\
+    groupadd -g ${GID} ${PROJECT} ;\
+    useradd -u ${UID} -g ${PROJECT} -M -d /var/lib/${PROJECT} -s /usr/sbin/nologin -c "${PROJECT} user" ${PROJECT} ;\
+    mkdir -p /etc/${PROJECT} /var/log/${PROJECT} /var/lib/${PROJECT} /var/cache/${PROJECT} ;\
+    chown ${PROJECT}:${PROJECT} /etc/${PROJECT} /var/log/${PROJECT} /var/lib/${PROJECT} /var/cache/${PROJECT} ;\
+    usermod -a -G qemu ${PROJECT}
diff --git a/tools/images/vbmc/Makefile b/tools/images/vbmc/Makefile
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+# Copyright 2017 The Openstack-Helm 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.
+
+# It's necessary to set this because some environments don't link sh -> bash.
+SHELL := /bin/bash
+
+DOCKER_REGISTRY            ?= docker.io
+IMAGE_NAME                 ?= vbmc
+IMAGE_PREFIX               ?= openstackhelm
+IMAGE_TAG                  ?= centos-0.1
+LABEL                      ?= putlabelshere
+
+IMAGE := ${DOCKER_REGISTRY}/${IMAGE_PREFIX}/${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}
+
+# Build vbmc Docker image for this project
+.PHONY: images
+images: build_$(IMAGE_NAME)
+
+# Make targets intended for use by the primary targets above.
+.PHONY: build_$(IMAGE_NAME)
+build_$(IMAGE_NAME):
+	docker build \
+	--label $(LABEL) \
+	-t $(IMAGE) \
+	.
diff --git a/tools/images/vbmc/README.rst b/tools/images/vbmc/README.rst
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+VBMC Container
+==============
+
+This container builds a small image with kubectl and some other utilities for
+use in both the ironic checks and development.
+
+Instructions
+------------
+
+OS Specific Host setup:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Ubuntu:
+^^^^^^^
+
+From a freshly provisioned Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host run:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+    sudo apt-get update -y
+    sudo apt-get install -y \
+            docker.io \
+            git
+
+Build the VBMC Image environment
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A known good image is published to dockerhub on a fairly regular basis, but if
+you wish to build your own image, from the root directory of the OpenStack-Helm
+repo run:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+    sudo docker build \
+      --network=host \
+      -t docker.io/openstackhelm/vbmc:centos-0.1 \
+      tools/images/vbmc
+    sudo docker push docker.io/openstackhelm/vbmc:centos-0.1