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+# This Dockerfile is a used as a CI job to validate Tectonic installer on CentOS
+
+FROM openshift/origin-release:golang-1.9 as build
+WORKDIR /go/src/github.com/coreos/tectonic-installer
+COPY . .
+### Install Terraform
+ENV TERRAFORM_VERSION="0.11.1"
+# Install Terraform
+# TERRAFORM_URL enables us to build the upstream-terraform Tectonic builder
+# image (See README.md/##Upstream-and-CoreOS-Terraform)
+ARG TERRAFORM_URL=https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/${TERRAFORM_VERSION}/terraform_${TERRAFORM_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip
+
+RUN go build -o ./installer/tectonic ./installer/cmd/tectonic && \
+    yum install -y unzip && \
+    yum clean all && \
+    curl -L ${TERRAFORM_URL} | funzip > ./installer/terraform && chmod +x ./installer/terraform && \
+    tar cvzf /opt/tectonic-dev.tar.gz ./installer/tectonic ./installer/terraform ./modules ./config.tf ./steps
+
+FROM centos:7
+COPY --from=build /opt/tectonic-dev.tar.gz /tmp/tectonic-dev.tar.gz
+
+ENV HOME /home/user
+ENV PATH $PATH:/home/user/installer
+RUN yum install -y gettext && \
+    yum clean all && \
+    mkdir -p ${HOME}/installer && chmod 777 -R ${HOME} && \
+    tar xzf /tmp/tectonic-dev.tar.gz -C ${HOME}
+WORKDIR /home/user