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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+# Copyright 2022-present Open Networking Foundation
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+# This script is run inside a container (minideb:buster) with ONOS codebase sitting in ONOS_ROOT env var
+set -eu -o pipefail
+
+# install dependencies required by the onos-publish script
+apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl build-essential python python-pip
+pip install requests
+curl -L -o bazelisk https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/releases/download/v1.5.0/bazelisk-linux-amd64
+chmod +x bazelisk && mv bazelisk /usr/bin/bazel
+
+#shellcheck source=/dev/null
+source "${ONOS_ROOT}"/tools/dev/bash_profile
+
+cd "${ONOS_ROOT}"
+onos-publish -l