diff --git a/imgutil/buildrpm b/imgutil/buildrpm
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..8f7f034b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/imgutil/buildrpm
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+VERSION=`git describe|cut -d- -f 1`
+NUMCOMMITS=`git describe|cut -d- -f 2`
+if [ "$NUMCOMMITS" != "$VERSION"  ]; then
+    VERSION=$VERSION.dev$NUMCOMMITS.g`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
+fi
+sed -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/" conlfuent_imgutil.spec.tmpl > confluent_imgutil.spec
+cd ..
+tar Jcvf confluent_imgutil.tar.xz imgutil
+mv confluent_imgutil.tar.xz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
+cd -
+rpmbuild -ba confluent_osdeploy.spec