diff --git a/cmd/action/main.go b/cmd/action/main.go
index 1b1e0e3acc49bf307cd468b5d0cbde2747215723..0d6873be2a208095dabd3f207178fd13583d8bf3 100644
--- a/cmd/action/main.go
+++ b/cmd/action/main.go
@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ import (
 	"os/signal"
 	"strconv"
 
+	log "github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/action"
+	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/version"
 )
 
 func main() {
+	log.Infof("Starting Actions Runtime -- version %s -- commit %s", version.Version(), version.Commit())
+
 	mode := flag.String("mode", "standalone", "")
 	actionHTTPPort := flag.String("action-http-port", "3500", "")
 	actionGRPCPort := flag.String("action-grpc-port", "50001", "")
diff --git a/cmd/assigner/main.go b/cmd/assigner/main.go
index cb19be6a65f468f0f1dde2c726ee9a1595067344..b43c9bb81441bf80ca91b6fd73c4c21546dc2fdd 100644
--- a/cmd/assigner/main.go
+++ b/cmd/assigner/main.go
@@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ import (
 
 	log "github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/assigner"
+	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/version"
 )
 
 func main() {
+	log.Infof("Starting Actions Assigner -- version %s -- commit %s", version.Version(), version.Commit())
+
 	port := flag.String("port", "50005", "")
 	flag.Parse()
 
diff --git a/cmd/controller/main.go b/cmd/controller/main.go
index 46255127b0dac4de5f3a3a65e7df31b24d54694f..23cf74ad5fe62ee6831d3df4024133b9cdf21fbf 100644
--- a/cmd/controller/main.go
+++ b/cmd/controller/main.go
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	log "github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
-	"github.com/golang/glog"
 	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/controller"
 	k8s "github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/kubernetes"
 	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/signals"
+	"github.com/actionscore/actions/pkg/version"
 )
 
 func main() {
-	log.Info("Starting Actions Controller")
+	log.Infof("Starting Actions Operator -- version %s -- commit %s", version.Version(), version.Commit())
 
 	ctx := signals.Context()
 	kubeClient, actionsClient, err := k8s.Clients()
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ func main() {
 	controller.NewController(kubeClient, actionsClient).Run(ctx)
 
 	shutdownDuration := 5 * time.Second
-	glog.Infof("allowing %s for graceful shutdown to complete", shutdownDuration)
+	log.Infof("allowing %s for graceful shutdown to complete", shutdownDuration)
 	<-time.After(shutdownDuration)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/version/version.go b/pkg/version/version.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37d78a019bce124046e5d251a1b23f63c227c276
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/version/version.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package version
+
+// Values for these are injected by the build
+var (
+	version string
+	commit  string
+)
+
+// Version returns the Actions version. This is either a semantic version
+// number or else, in the case of unreleased code, the string "devel".
+func Version() string {
+	return version
+}
+
+// Commit returns the git commit SHA for the code that Actions was built from.
+func Commit() string {
+	return commit
+}