diff --git a/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py b/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py
index 0fb3aa0..bea0a01 100755
--- a/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py
+++ b/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py
@@ -225,7 +225,9 @@
             # 3. do the dc.startCompute(name="foobar") call to run the container
             # TODO consider flavors, and other annotations
             intfs = vnfd.get("connection_points")
-
+            # mgmt connection points can be skipped, this is considered to be the connection the default docker0 bridge
+            intfs = [intf for intf in intfs if 'mgmt' not in intf['id']]
+            
             # use the vnf_id in the nsd as docker name
             # so deployed containers can be easily mapped back to the nsd
             vnf_name2id = defaultdict(lambda: "NotExistingNode",