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+# Maintainers
+
+Johan Euphrosine <proppy@google.com>
diff --git a/contrib/podex/README.md b/contrib/podex/README.md
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+# podex
+
+## Description
+
+`podex` is a command line tool to bootstrap a kubernetes container manifests from docker image metadata.
+
+Manifests can then be edited by a human to match deployment needs.
+
+## Usage
+```
+$ docker pull google/nodejs-hello
+$ podex -yaml google/nodejs-hello > pod.yaml
+$ podex -json google/nodejs-hello > pod.json
+```
diff --git a/contrib/podex/podex.go b/contrib/podex/podex.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+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.
+*/
+
+// podex is a command line tool to bootstrap kubernetes container
+// manifest from docker image metadata.
+//
+// Manifests can then be edited by a human to match deployment needs.
+//
+// Example usage:
+//
+// $ docker pull google/nodejs-hello
+// $ podex -yaml google/nodejs-hello > google/nodejs-hello/pod.yaml
+// $ podex -json google/nodejs-hello > google/nodejs-hello/pod.json
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"flag"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1beta1"
+	dockerclient "github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
+	"gopkg.in/v1/yaml"
+)
+
+const usage = "usage: podex [-json|-yaml] <repo/dockerimage>"
+
+var generateJSON = flag.Bool("json", false, "generate json manifest")
+var generateYAML = flag.Bool("yaml", false, "generate yaml manifest")
+
+func main() {
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	if flag.NArg() < 1 {
+		log.Fatal(usage)
+	}
+
+	imageName := flag.Arg(0)
+	if len(imageName) == 0 {
+		log.Fatal(usage)
+	}
+
+	if (!*generateJSON && !*generateYAML) || (*generateJSON && *generateYAML) {
+		log.Fatal(usage)
+	}
+
+	// Parse docker image name
+	// IMAGE: [REGISTRYHOST/][USERNAME/]NAME[:TAG]
+	// NAME: [a-z0-9-_.]
+	parts := strings.Split(imageName, "/")
+	baseName := parts[len(parts)-1]
+
+	dockerHost := os.Getenv("DOCKER_HOST")
+	docker, err := dockerclient.NewClient(dockerHost)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("failed to connect to %q: %v", dockerHost, err)
+	}
+
+	// TODO(proppy): use the regitry API instead of the remote API to get image metadata.
+	img, err := docker.InspectImage(imageName)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("failed to inspect image %q: %v", imageName, err)
+	}
+	// TODO(proppy): add flag to handle multiple version
+	manifest := v1beta1.ContainerManifest{
+		Version: "v1beta1",
+		ID:      baseName + "-pod",
+		Containers: []v1beta1.Container{{
+			Name:  baseName,
+			Image: imageName,
+		}},
+		RestartPolicy: v1beta1.RestartPolicy{
+			Always: &v1beta1.RestartPolicyAlways{},
+		},
+	}
+	for p := range img.Config.ExposedPorts {
+		port, err := strconv.Atoi(p.Port())
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("failed to parse port %q: %v", parts[0], err)
+		}
+		manifest.Containers[0].Ports = append(manifest.Containers[0].Ports, v1beta1.Port{
+			Name:          strings.Join([]string{baseName, p.Proto(), p.Port()}, "-"),
+			ContainerPort: port,
+			Protocol:      strings.ToUpper(p.Proto()),
+		})
+	}
+	if *generateJSON {
+		bs, err := json.MarshalIndent(manifest, "", "  ")
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("failed to render JSON container manifest: %v", err)
+		}
+		os.Stdout.Write(bs)
+	}
+	if *generateYAML {
+		bs, err := yaml.Marshal(manifest)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("failed to render YAML container manifest: %v", err)
+		}
+		os.Stdout.Write(bs)
+	}
+}