diff --git a/src/config.yaml b/src/config.yaml
index a832465..2c95ed2 100644
--- a/src/config.yaml
+++ b/src/config.yaml
@@ -1,21 +1,18 @@
 options:
-  vlan-ranges:
+  install-source:
     type: string
-    default: "physnet1:1000:2000"
+    default: "deb-resource"
     description: |
-      Space-delimited list of Neutron network-provider & vlan-id-ranges using
-      the following format "<provider>:<start>:<end> ...".
-  overlay-network-type:
-    default: gre
+      Installation source for package. Valid options are:
+      .
+        deb-resource
+        deb
+        pip
+      .
+      deb-resource means the debian package as a provided resource.
+      deb is package provided by an official (or preconfigured) repository.
+      pip is installation directly from pip.
+  deb-package-name:
     type: string
-    description: |
-      Overlay network types to use, valid options include:
-      .
-        gre
-        vxlan
-      .
-      Multiple types can be provided - field is space delimited.
-  security-groups:
-    default: false
-    type: boolean
-    description: Enable OpenDayLight managed security groups.
+    default: "networking-generic-switch"
+    description: Debian package name. For installation with "deb" install source.
diff --git a/src/lib/charm/openstack/neutron_api_genericswitch.py b/src/lib/charm/openstack/neutron_api_genericswitch.py
index 35fa1aa..a7f09f2 100644
--- a/src/lib/charm/openstack/neutron_api_genericswitch.py
+++ b/src/lib/charm/openstack/neutron_api_genericswitch.py
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 import charms_openstack.adapters
 import charms_openstack.charm
 import charmhelpers.contrib.openstack.utils as ch_utils
-
+from charmhelpers.core import hookenv
+from charmhelpers.core.hookenv import config
 
 ML2_CONF = '/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini'
 VLAN = 'vlan'
@@ -45,10 +46,7 @@ class NewtonNeutronAPIGenericSwitchCharm(charms_openstack.charm.OpenStackCharm):
 
     release = 'newton'
 
-    packages = ['neutron-common',
-                'neutron-plugin-ml2',
-                'nginx-light',
-                ]
+    packages = []
     required_relations = ['neutron-plugin-api-subordinate']
 
     restart_map = {ML2_CONF: []}
@@ -60,6 +58,18 @@ class NewtonNeutronAPIGenericSwitchCharm(charms_openstack.charm.OpenStackCharm):
                        'neutron_lbaas.services.loadbalancer.'
                        'plugin.LoadBalancerPluginv2')
 
+    def install(self):
+        # TODO(mmitchell): support modes other than deb-resource.
+        if config('install-source') == 'deb-resource':
+            hookenv.log('Installing deb from resource file.')
+            package_path = hookenv.resource_get(name='package')
+
+            # NOTE(mmitchell): This puts the full package path as a package to install.
+            #                  Should be enough to get to the point where apt will install it.
+            self.packages = [package_path]
+
+        super().install()
+
     def configure_plugin(self, api_principle):
         """Add sections and tuples to insert values into neutron-server's
         neutron.conf
diff --git a/src/metadata.yaml b/src/metadata.yaml
index f5aec1a..b90ea29 100644
--- a/src/metadata.yaml
+++ b/src/metadata.yaml
@@ -26,3 +26,8 @@ requires:
   container:
     interface: juju-info
     scope: container
+resources:
+  package:
+    type: file
+    filename: neutron-api-genericswitch.deb
+    description: Packaged version of the networking-generic-switch python package