diff --git a/ci-scripts/scripts/docker-build-and-deploy-physims.sh b/ci-scripts/scripts/docker-build-and-deploy-physims.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+function die() { echo $@; exit 1; }
+[ $# -ge 1 ] || die "usage: $0 <directory> [ctest-options]"
+
+IMAGE=ran-physimtests:ci-temp
+CONTAINER=ran-physimtests
+function cleanup-docker() {
+  docker stop ${CONTAINER}
+  docker rm ${CONTAINER}
+  docker rmi ${IMAGE}
+  docker volume prune --force
+}
+trap cleanup-docker EXIT
+
+set -x
+DIR=$1
+RESULT_DIR=${DIR}/
+shift
+CTEST_OPT=$@
+
+# build physims
+docker build --progress=plain --tag ${IMAGE} --file ${DIR}/ci-scripts/docker/Dockerfile.physim.ubuntu ${DIR} &>> ${RESULT_DIR}/physim_log.txt
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "build of physims failed"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# get a JSON description of all tests to run
+docker run -a STDOUT --workdir /oai-ran/build/ --env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oai-ran/build/ --rm --name ${CONTAINER} ${IMAGE} ctest ${CTEST_OPT} --show-only=json-v1 &> ${RESULT_DIR}/desc-tests.json
+JSON_RES=$?
+
+# run the actual tests: we don't suppy --rm as we have to copy the files
+# similar to unit tests, we can't mount the file where we write physims-5g-run.xml to
+# as it would write a file as root, but this script is run as a normal user
+docker run -a STDOUT --workdir /oai-ran/build/ --env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oai-ran/build/ --name ${CONTAINER} ${IMAGE} ctest ${CTEST_OPT} --output-junit results-run.xml --test-output-size-passed 100000 --test-output-size-failed 100000 &>> ${RESULT_DIR}/physim_log.txt
+RUN_RES=$?
+docker cp ${CONTAINER}:/oai-ran/build/results-run.xml ${RESULT_DIR}/
+docker cp ${CONTAINER}:/oai-ran/build/Testing/Temporary/LastTestsFailed.log ${RESULT_DIR}/
+docker cp ${CONTAINER}:/oai-ran/build/Testing/Temporary/LastTest.log ${RESULT_DIR}/
+
+# if both were successful, return 0
+# TODO not sure
+#[[ $JSON_RES -eq 0 && $RUN_RES -eq 0 ]] && exit 0
+
+exit 0