diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Changelog b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Changelog
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+## v1 (Thu Oct 20 2016 Vishnu Kannan <vishh@google.com>)
+  - Creating a container with mount tools pre-installed
+  - Digest: sha256:e3dad2a7e6e79f8fad8a513f85d7e1489456c829f966908617de21a084270d7f
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Dockerfile b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Dockerfile
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+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes 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 debian:jessie
+MAINTAINER vishh@google.com
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y nfs-common glusterfs-client
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/mount"]
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Makefile b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Makefile
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+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes 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.
+
+TAG=v1
+REGISTRY=gcr.io/google_containers
+IMAGE=gci-mounter
+
+all: container
+
+container:
+	docker build --pull -t ${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE}:${TAG} .
+
+push: 
+	gcloud docker -- push ${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE}:${TAG}
+
+.PHONY: all container push