diff --git a/ads/aqua/deployment.py b/ads/aqua/deployment.py
index ab68c0e64..247686705 100644
--- a/ads/aqua/deployment.py
+++ b/ads/aqua/deployment.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2024 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
 # Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl/
 
+from enum import Enum
 import json
 import logging
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field, asdict
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@
 from ads.aqua.utils import (
     UNKNOWN,
     MODEL_BY_REFERENCE_OSS_PATH_KEY,
+    get_container_config,
     load_config,
     get_container_image,
     UNKNOWN_DICT,
@@ -44,12 +46,23 @@
     AQUA_CONFIG_FOLDER,
     AQUA_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT_CONFIG_DEFAULTS,
     AQUA_DEPLOYMENT_CONTAINER_METADATA_NAME,
-    AQUA_SERVED_MODEL_NAME,
 )
 from ads.common.object_storage_details import ObjectStorageDetails
 from ads.telemetry import telemetry
 
 
+class ContainerSpec:
+    """
+    Class to hold to hold keys within the container spec.
+    """
+
+    CONTAINER_SPEC = "containerSpec"
+    CLI_PARM = "cliParam"
+    SERVER_PORT = "serverPort"
+    HEALTH_CHECK_PORT = "healthCheckPort"
+    ENV_VARS = "envVars"
+
+
 @dataclass
 class ShapeInfo:
     instance_shape: str = None
@@ -197,8 +210,8 @@ def create(
         description: str = None,
         bandwidth_mbps: int = None,
         web_concurrency: int = None,
-        server_port: int = 8080,
-        health_check_port: int = 8080,
+        server_port: int = None,
+        health_check_port: int = None,
         env_var: Dict = None,
     ) -> "AquaDeployment":
         """
@@ -232,9 +245,9 @@ def create(
             The number of worker processes/threads to handle incoming requests
         with_bucket_uri(bucket_uri)
             Sets the bucket uri when uploading large size model.
-        server_port: (int). Defaults to 8080.
+        server_port: (int).
             The server port for docker container image.
-        health_check_port: (int). Defaults to 8080.
+        health_check_port: (int).
             The health check port for docker container image.
         env_var : dict, optional
             Environment variable for the deployment, by default None.
@@ -244,6 +257,7 @@ def create(
             An Aqua deployment instance
 
         """
+        # TODO validate if the service model has no artifact and if it requires import step before deployment.
         # Create a model catalog entry in the user compartment
         aqua_model = AquaModelApp().create(
             model_id=model_id, compartment_id=compartment_id, project_id=project_id
@@ -308,14 +322,6 @@ def create(
             os_path = ObjectStorageDetails.from_path(model_path_prefix)
             model_path_prefix = os_path.filepath.rstrip("/")
 
-        env_var.update({"BASE_MODEL": f"{model_path_prefix}"})
-        params = f"--served-model-name {AQUA_SERVED_MODEL_NAME} --seed 42 "
-        if vllm_params:
-            params += vllm_params
-        env_var.update({"PARAMS": params})
-        env_var.update({"MODEL_DEPLOY_PREDICT_ENDPOINT": "/v1/completions"})
-        env_var.update({"MODEL_DEPLOY_ENABLE_STREAMING": "true"})
-
         if is_fine_tuned_model:
             _, fine_tune_output_path = get_model_by_reference_paths(
                 aqua_model.model_file_description
@@ -364,6 +370,28 @@ def create(
             f"Aqua Image used for deploying {aqua_model.id} : {container_image}"
         )
 
+        # Fetch the startup cli command for the container
+        # container_index.json will have "containerSpec" section which will provide the cli params for a given container family
+        container_config = get_container_config()
+        container_spec = container_config.get(ContainerSpec.CONTAINER_SPEC, {}).get(
+            container_type_key, {}
+        )
+        params = container_spec.get(ContainerSpec.CLI_PARM, "")
+        server_port = server_port or container_spec.get(
+            ContainerSpec.SERVER_PORT
+        )  # Give precendece to the input parameter
+        health_check_port = health_check_port or container_spec.get(
+            ContainerSpec.HEALTH_CHECK_PORT
+        )  # Give precendece to the input parameter
+
+        env_var.update({"BASE_MODEL": f"{model_path_prefix}"})
+        env_var.update({"MODEL": f"{model_path_prefix}"})
+        if vllm_params:
+            params = f"{params} {vllm_params}"
+        env_var.update({"PARAMS": params})
+        for env in container_spec.get(ContainerSpec.ENV_VARS, []):
+            if isinstance(env, dict):
+                env_var.update(env)
         # Start model deployment
         # configure model deployment infrastructure
         # todo : any other infrastructure params needed?
diff --git a/ads/aqua/utils.py b/ads/aqua/utils.py
index 7f32ba0bf..d0eca6f7c 100644
--- a/ads/aqua/utils.py
+++ b/ads/aqua/utils.py
@@ -522,6 +522,19 @@ def _build_job_identifier(
         return AquaResourceIdentifier()
 
 
+def container_config_path():
+    return f"oci://{AQUA_SERVICE_MODELS_BUCKET}@{CONDA_BUCKET_NS}/service_models/config"
+
+
+def get_container_config():
+    config = load_config(
+        file_path=container_config_path(),
+        config_file_name=CONTAINER_INDEX,
+    )
+
+    return config
+
+
 def get_container_image(
     config_file_name: str = None, container_type: str = None
 ) -> str:
@@ -539,14 +552,8 @@ def get_container_image(
         A dict of allowed configs.
     """
 
-    config_file_name = (
-        f"oci://{AQUA_SERVICE_MODELS_BUCKET}@{CONDA_BUCKET_NS}/service_models/config"
-    )
-
-    config = load_config(
-        file_path=config_file_name,
-        config_file_name=CONTAINER_INDEX,
-    )
+    config = config_file_name or get_container_config()
+    config_file_name = container_config_path()
 
     if container_type not in config:
         raise AquaValueError(
@@ -771,6 +778,7 @@ def upload_folder(os_path: str, local_dir: str, model_name: str) -> str:
     object_path = os_details.filepath.rstrip("/") + "/" + model_name + "/"
     command = f"oci os object bulk-upload --src-dir {local_dir} --prefix {object_path} -bn {os_details.bucket} -ns {os_details.namespace} --auth {auth_state.oci_iam_type} --profile {auth_state.oci_key_profile}"
     try:
+        logger.info(f"Running: {command}")
         subprocess.check_call(shlex.split(command))
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         logger.error(