diff --git a/Dockerfile.deploy b/Dockerfile.deploy
index d5d73c7743..8fedd4bf67 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.deploy
+++ b/Dockerfile.deploy
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ RUN localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
 ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
 ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
 
+# The pipeline v2 standard requires the existence of /app/version.json
+# inside the docker image, although the content of the file comes from
+# circle.yml.
+# We realize that the content of version.json is written twice (once in
+# circle.yml, and the other in the end of this file), we should remove
+# the bits at the end of this file after we fully migrate to use pipeline
+# v2.
+COPY version.json /app/version.json
 COPY . /data/olympia
 WORKDIR /data/olympia
 
diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index cfd5c16d22..c8b7c2426c 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ machine:
 dependencies:
   override:
     - docker version
+    - >
+        printf '{"commit":"%s","version":"%s","source":"https://github.com/%s/%s","build":"%s"}\n'
+        "$CIRCLE_SHA1"
+        "$CIRCLE_TAG"
+        "$CIRCLE_PROJECT_USERNAME"
+        "$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME"
+        "$CIRCLE_BUILD_URL"
+        > version.json
     - docker build -t app:build -f Dockerfile.deploy .
     - pip install tox mozdownload mozinstall