diff --git a/wherehows-backend/app/controllers/Application.java b/wherehows-backend/app/controllers/Application.java
index 14d54fb1a6..7c10915387 100644
--- a/wherehows-backend/app/controllers/Application.java
+++ b/wherehows-backend/app/controllers/Application.java
@@ -1,24 +1,30 @@
 /**
  * Copyright 2015 LinkedIn Corp. All rights reserved.
- *
+ * <p>
  * 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
- *
+ * <p>
  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
+ * <p>
  * 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.
  */
 package controllers;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
 import javax.persistence.Persistence;
+
 import org.hibernate.hikaricp.internal.HikariCPConnectionProvider;
+import play.Logger;
 import play.Play;
 import play.mvc.Controller;
 import play.mvc.Result;
@@ -27,53 +33,83 @@ import wherehows.dao.DaoFactory;
 
 public class Application extends Controller {
 
-  private static final String DB_WHEREHOWS_URL = Play.application().configuration().getString("db.wherehows.url");
-  private static final String DB_WHEREHOWS_USERNAME =
-      Play.application().configuration().getString("db.wherehows.username");
-  private static final String DB_WHEREHOWS_PASSWORD =
-      Play.application().configuration().getString("db.wherehows.password");
+    private static final String WHZ_APP_ENV = System.getenv("WHZ_APP_HOME");
+    private static final String DB_WHEREHOWS_URL = Play.application().configuration().getString("db.wherehows.url");
+    private static final String DB_WHEREHOWS_USERNAME =
+            Play.application().configuration().getString("db.wherehows.username");
+    private static final String DB_WHEREHOWS_PASSWORD =
+            Play.application().configuration().getString("db.wherehows.password");
 
-  public static final EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;
+    public static final EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;
 
-  static {
-    Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<>();
-    properties.put("hibernate.connection.provider_class", HikariCPConnectionProvider.class.getName());
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSourceClassName", "com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource");
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.url", DB_WHEREHOWS_URL);
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.user", DB_WHEREHOWS_USERNAME);
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.password", DB_WHEREHOWS_PASSWORD);
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.cachePrepStmts", "true");
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.prepStmtCacheSize", "250");
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.prepStmtCacheSqlLimit", "2048");
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.minimumIdle", "5");
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.maximumPoolSize", "10");
-    properties.put("hibernate.hikari.idleTimeout", "30000");
-    properties.put("hibernate.show_sql", "false");
-    properties.put("hibernate.dialect", "MySQL5");
-    properties.put("hibernate.jdbc.batch_size", "100");
-    properties.put("hibernate.order_inserts", "true");
-    properties.put("hibernate.order_updates", "true");
-    entityManagerFactory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("default", properties);
-  }
-
-  public static final DaoFactory daoFactory = createDaoFactory();
-
-  private static DaoFactory createDaoFactory() {
-    try {
-      String className = Play.application().configuration().getString("dao.entityManagerFactory.class", DaoFactory.class.getCanonicalName());
-      Class factoryClass = Class.forName(className);
-      Constructor<? extends DaoFactory> ctor = factoryClass.getConstructor(EntityManagerFactory.class);
-      return ctor.newInstance(entityManagerFactory);
-    } catch (Exception e) {
-      throw new RuntimeException(e);
+    static {
+        Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<>();
+        properties.put("hibernate.connection.provider_class", HikariCPConnectionProvider.class.getName());
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSourceClassName", "com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource");
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.url", DB_WHEREHOWS_URL);
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.user", DB_WHEREHOWS_USERNAME);
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.password", DB_WHEREHOWS_PASSWORD);
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.cachePrepStmts", "true");
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.prepStmtCacheSize", "250");
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.dataSource.prepStmtCacheSqlLimit", "2048");
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.minimumIdle", "5");
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.maximumPoolSize", "10");
+        properties.put("hibernate.hikari.idleTimeout", "30000");
+        properties.put("hibernate.show_sql", "false");
+        properties.put("hibernate.dialect", "MySQL5");
+        properties.put("hibernate.jdbc.batch_size", "100");
+        properties.put("hibernate.order_inserts", "true");
+        properties.put("hibernate.order_updates", "true");
+        entityManagerFactory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("default", properties);
     }
-  }
 
-  public static Result index() {
-    return ok("TEST");
-  }
+    public static final DaoFactory daoFactory = createDaoFactory();
 
-  public static Result healthcheck() {
-    return ok("GOOD");
-  }
+    private static DaoFactory createDaoFactory() {
+        try {
+            String className = Play.application().configuration().getString("dao.entityManagerFactory.class", DaoFactory.class.getCanonicalName());
+            Class factoryClass = Class.forName(className);
+            Constructor<? extends DaoFactory> ctor = factoryClass.getConstructor(EntityManagerFactory.class);
+            return ctor.newInstance(entityManagerFactory);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static Result index() {
+        return ok("TEST");
+    }
+
+    public static Result healthcheck() {
+        return ok("GOOD");
+    }
+
+    public static Result printDeps() {
+        String libPath = WHZ_APP_ENV + "/lib";
+        String commitFile = WHZ_APP_ENV + "/commit";
+        String libraries = "";
+        String commit = "";
+
+        if (WHZ_APP_ENV == null) {
+            return ok("WHZ_APP_HOME environmental variable not defined");
+        }
+
+        try {
+            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(commitFile));
+            commit = br.readLine();
+        } catch (IOException ioe) {
+            Logger.error("Error while reading commit file. Error message: " +
+                    ioe.getMessage());
+        }
+
+        //get all the files from a directory
+        File directory = new File(libPath);
+        for (File file : directory.listFiles()) {
+            if (file.isFile()) {
+                libraries += file.getName() + "\n";
+            }
+        }
+
+        return ok("commit: " + commit + "\n" + libraries);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/wherehows-backend/conf/routes b/wherehows-backend/conf/routes
index f8c13270e1..69aefe9f66 100644
--- a/wherehows-backend/conf/routes
+++ b/wherehows-backend/conf/routes
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GET         /                             controllers.Application.index()
 # Health check endpoint
 GET         /admin                        controllers.Application.healthcheck()
 
+#container libraries
+GET        /deps                          controllers.Application.printDeps()
+
 # Map static resources from the /public folder to the /assets URL path
 GET         /assets/*file                 controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)
 
diff --git a/wherehows-dao/build.gradle b/wherehows-dao/build.gradle
index c1a0c1f4a2..3dd8847763 100644
--- a/wherehows-dao/build.gradle
+++ b/wherehows-dao/build.gradle
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 apply plugin: 'java'
 
 dependencies {
-  compile externalDependency.commons_lang3
-  compile externalDependency.slf4j_api
-  compile externalDependency.spring_jdbc
-  compile externalDependency.jackson_databind
-  compile externalDependency.jackson_core
-  compile externalDependency.jackson_annotations
-  compile externalDependency.lombok
-  compile externalDependency.hibernate_core
-  compile externalDependency.hibernate_hikaricp
+    compile externalDependency.commons_lang3
+    compile externalDependency.slf4j_api
+    compile externalDependency.spring_jdbc
+    compile externalDependency.jackson_databind
+    compile externalDependency.jackson_core
+    compile externalDependency.jackson_annotations
+    compile externalDependency.lombok
+    compile externalDependency.hibernate_core
+    compile externalDependency.hibernate_hikaricp
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wherehows-frontend/app/controllers/Application.java b/wherehows-frontend/app/controllers/Application.java
index f0311c09e9..6e38476cd7 100644
--- a/wherehows-frontend/app/controllers/Application.java
+++ b/wherehows-frontend/app/controllers/Application.java
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 /**
  * Copyright 2015 LinkedIn Corp. All rights reserved.
- *
+ * <p>
  * 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
- *
+ * <p>
  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
+ * <p>
  * 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.
@@ -18,8 +18,15 @@ import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 import dao.FlowsDAO;
 import dao.MetricsDAO;
 import dao.UserDAO;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
+
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import play.Logger;
 import play.Play;
@@ -35,9 +42,10 @@ import wherehows.dao.DaoFactory;
 
 import static play.data.Form.*;
 
-public class Application extends Controller
-{
+public class Application extends Controller {
+
     private static String TREE_NAME_SUBFIX = ".tree.name";
+    private static final String WHZ_APP_ENV = System.getenv("WHZ_APP_HOME");
     private static final String APP_VERSION = Play.application().configuration().getString("app.version");
     private static final String PIWIK_SITE_ID = Play.application().configuration().getString("tracking.piwik.siteid");
     private static final String PIWIK_URL = Play.application().configuration().getString("tracking.piwik.url");
@@ -48,7 +56,7 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     private static DaoFactory createDaoFactory() {
         try {
             String className =
-                Play.application().configuration().getString("dao.factory.class", DaoFactory.class.getCanonicalName());
+                    Play.application().configuration().getString("dao.factory.class", DaoFactory.class.getCanonicalName());
             Class factoryClass = Class.forName(className);
             Constructor<? extends DaoFactory> ctor = factoryClass.getConstructor();
             return ctor.newInstance();
@@ -59,6 +67,7 @@ public class Application extends Controller
 
     /**
      * Serves the build output index.html for any given path
+     *
      * @param path takes a path string, which essentially is ignored
      *             routing is managed client side
      * @return {Result} build output index.html resource
@@ -70,13 +79,43 @@ public class Application extends Controller
         return ok(indexHtml).as("text/html");
     }
 
-    public static Result healthcheck()
-    {
+    public static Result healthcheck() {
         return ok("GOOD");
     }
 
+    public static Result printDeps() {
+        String libPath = WHZ_APP_ENV + "/lib";
+        String commitFile = WHZ_APP_ENV + "/commit";
+        String libraries = "";
+        String commit = "";
+
+        if (WHZ_APP_ENV == null) {
+            return ok("WHZ_APP_HOME environmental variable not defined");
+        }
+
+        try {
+            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(commitFile));
+            commit = br.readLine();
+        } catch (IOException ioe) {
+            Logger.error("Error while reading commit file. Error message: " +
+                    ioe.getMessage());
+        }
+
+        //get all the files from a directory
+        File directory = new File(libPath);
+        for (File file : directory.listFiles()) {
+            if (file.isFile()) {
+                libraries += file.getName() + "\n";
+            }
+        }
+
+        return ok("commit: " + commit + "\n" + libraries);
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * index Action proxies to serveAsset
+     *
      * @param path takes a path string which is either index.html or the path segment after /
      * @return {Result} response from serveAsset method
      */
@@ -127,22 +166,18 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result lineage()
-    {
+    public static Result lineage() {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
         return serveAsset("");
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result datasetLineage(int id)
-    {
+    public static Result datasetLineage(int id) {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
 
@@ -150,11 +185,9 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result metricLineage(int id)
-    {
+    public static Result metricLineage(int id) {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
 
@@ -162,16 +195,13 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result flowLineage(String application, String project, String flow)
-    {
+    public static Result flowLineage(String application, String project, String flow) {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
         String type = "azkaban";
-        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(application) && (application.toLowerCase().indexOf("appworx") != -1))
-        {
+        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(application) && (application.toLowerCase().indexOf("appworx") != -1)) {
             type = "appworx";
 
         }
@@ -180,11 +210,9 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result schemaHistory()
-    {
+    public static Result schemaHistory() {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
 
@@ -192,11 +220,9 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result scriptFinder()
-    {
+    public static Result scriptFinder() {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
 
@@ -204,29 +230,24 @@ public class Application extends Controller
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result idpc()
-    {
+    public static Result idpc() {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
         return serveAsset("");
     }
 
     @Security.Authenticated(Secured.class)
-    public static Result dashboard()
-    {
+    public static Result dashboard() {
         String username = session("user");
-        if (username == null)
-        {
+        if (username == null) {
             username = "";
         }
         return serveAsset("");
     }
 
-    public static Result login()
-    {
+    public static Result login() {
         //You cann generate the Csrf token such as String csrfToken = SecurityPlugin.getInstance().getCsrfToken();
         String csrfToken = "";
         return serveAsset("");
@@ -277,8 +298,7 @@ public class Application extends Controller
         return ok(response);
     }
 
-    public static Result signUp()
-    {
+    public static Result signUp() {
         DynamicForm loginForm = form().bindFromRequest();
         String username = loginForm.get("inputName");
         String firstName = loginForm.get("inputFirstName");
@@ -286,62 +306,47 @@ public class Application extends Controller
         String email = loginForm.get("inputEmail");
         String password = loginForm.get("inputPassword");
         String errorMessage = "";
-        try
-        {
+        try {
             errorMessage = UserDAO.signUp(username, firstName, lastName, email, password);
-            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(errorMessage))
-            {
+            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(errorMessage)) {
                 flash("error", errorMessage);
-            }
-            else
-            {
+            } else {
                 flash("success", "Congratulations! Your account has been created. Please login.");
             }
-        }
-        catch (Exception e)
-        {
+        } catch (Exception e) {
             flash("error", e.getMessage());
         }
 
         return serveAsset("");
     }
 
-    public static Result logout()
-    {
+    public static Result logout() {
         session().clear();
         return ok();
     }
 
-    public static Result loadTree(String key)
-    {
-        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(key) && key.equalsIgnoreCase("flows"))
-        {
+    public static Result loadTree(String key) {
+        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(key) && key.equalsIgnoreCase("flows")) {
             return ok(FlowsDAO.getFlowApplicationNodes());
-        }
-        else if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(key) && key.equalsIgnoreCase("metrics"))
-        {
+        } else if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(key) && key.equalsIgnoreCase("metrics")) {
             return ok(MetricsDAO.getMetricDashboardNodes());
         }
         return ok(Tree.loadTreeJsonNode(key + TREE_NAME_SUBFIX));
     }
 
-    public static Result loadFlowProjects(String app)
-    {
+    public static Result loadFlowProjects(String app) {
         return ok(FlowsDAO.getFlowProjectNodes(app));
     }
 
-    public static Result loadFlowNodes(String app, String project)
-    {
+    public static Result loadFlowNodes(String app, String project) {
         return ok(FlowsDAO.getFlowNodes(app, project));
     }
 
-    public static Result loadMetricGroups(String dashboard)
-    {
+    public static Result loadMetricGroups(String dashboard) {
         return ok(MetricsDAO.getMetricGroupNodes(dashboard));
     }
 
-    public static Result loadMetricNodes(String dashboard, String group)
-    {
+    public static Result loadMetricNodes(String dashboard, String group) {
         return ok(MetricsDAO.getMetricNodes(dashboard, group));
     }
 
diff --git a/wherehows-frontend/conf/routes b/wherehows-frontend/conf/routes
index aade68d044..d1e800d979 100644
--- a/wherehows-frontend/conf/routes
+++ b/wherehows-frontend/conf/routes
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ GET           /
 
 GET           /admin                                                            controllers.Application.healthcheck()
 
+GET           /deps                                                             controllers.Application.printDeps()
+
 GET           /config                                                           controllers.Application.appConfig()
 
 GET           /login                                                            controllers.Application.login()