diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.vlkb b/docker/Dockerfile.vlkb
index 7673df84b90bc16569694b9a2dc4a9542934c596..7ffbf3fb0c1c26fe7f6e856b49170f9baa06dbe0 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.vlkb
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile.vlkb
@@ -1,71 +1,60 @@
-FROM debian:bullseye-slim
-LABEL Description="vlkb tomcat9"
+# bullseye-slim = debian11
+#FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+#LABEL Description="debian11 devel-env"
+# Jammy Jellyfish = ubuntu22
+FROM tomcat:9-jre17-temurin-jammy
+LABEL Description="ubuntu22 devel-env"
 
-WORKDIR /root
-ENV HOME /root
 
+COPY deps/ast_9.2.9-1_amd64.deb /tmp/
 
 RUN apt -y update \
- && apt -y install sudo procps psmisc tree wget curl vim make build-essential checkinstall git \
-                   libcfitsio-dev libpqxx-dev librabbitmq-dev libcsv-dev gfortran \
-                   openjdk-17-jre-headless unzip \
-                   rabbitmq-server openjdk-17-jre openjdk-17-jdk tomcat9 tomcat9-admin \
-                   postgresql-client \
-                   time montage
+ && apt -y install sudo procps psmisc curl wget vim make build-essential checkinstall tree htop unzip \
+                   libcfitsio-dev libpqxx-dev librabbitmq-dev libcsv-dev libdavix0v5 davix-dev gfortran \
+ && dpkg -i /tmp/ast_9.2.9-1_amd64.deb \
+ && echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ast.conf \
+ && ldconfig \
+ && apt -y install rabbitmq-server openjdk-17-jre openjdk-17-jdk tomcat9 tomcat9-admin openssh-server \ 
+                   postgresql-client git
 
-ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64
-ENV CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/tomcat9
-ENV CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat9
-ENV CATALINA_TMPDIR=/tmp
 
-ENV WEBAPP_DIR=/webapps/vlkb-soda
+USER root
+COPY deps/tomcat-users.xml /etc/tomcat9/
+ENV CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/tomcat9 \
+ CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat9 \
+ CATALINA_TMPDIR=/tmp
 
-COPY deps/ast_9.2.9-1_amd64.deb ./
-RUN dpkg -i /root/ast_9.2.9-1_amd64.deb && ldconfig \
- && mkdir -p ${WEBAPP_DIR} \
- && mkdir -p /srv/surveys && mkdir -p /srv/cutouts \
- && mkdir -p /etc/pki/tls
+RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash devel \
+ && usermod -aG sudo devel
 
+USER devel
+ENV USER=devel
+WORKDIR /home/devel
+ENV HOME=/home/devel
 
-ARG VLKB_VERSION
+RUN echo "alias vlkb-obscore-dbadd='vlkb-obscore /usr/local/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf dbadd '" > .bash_aliases
 
-COPY vlkb-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb vlkb-obscore-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb vlkbd-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb ./
-COPY vlkb-soda-${VLKB_VERSION}.war ${WEBAPP_DIR}/
-RUN dpkg -i vlkb-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb vlkb-obscore-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb vlkbd-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb \
- && cd ${WEBAPP_DIR} && jar -xf vlkb-soda-${VLKB_VERSION}.war
- 
-# Tomcat must load DB-driver (postgresql_*.jar), vlkb-soda does not explicitely load DB-drivers
-COPY deps/postgresql-*.jar  /var/lib/tomcat9/lib
+# allow sudo without pwd and sudo no checks on hosts
+USER root
+RUN echo 'devel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/develallowallcmds \
+ && echo 'Defaults !fqdn' > /etc/sudoers.d/nodns
 
 
+RUN mkdir /var/run/sshd \
+ && echo 'root:deb11develenv' | chpasswd \
+ && sed -i 's/PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config \
+ && sed 's@session\s*required\s*pam_loginuid.so@session optional pam_loginuid.so@g' -i /etc/pam.d/sshd
 
-# configure instance
+EXPOSE 22
 
+# vlkb-obscore*.deb installs to /usr/local
+ARG VLKB_VERSION
+COPY vlkb-obscore-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb ./
+RUN dpkg -i vlkb-obscore-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb
 ENV INST_DIR=/usr/local
 
-COPY deps/vlkbd_exec.sh ${INST_DIR}/bin
-
-RUN mkdir -p ${INST_DIR}/etc/vlkb-obscore \
- && mkdir -p ${INST_DIR}/etc/vlkbd \
- && echo "${INST_DIR}/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ast.conf \
- && ldconfig \
- && echo "fits_path_surveys=/srv/surveys" > $WEBAPP_DIR/WEB-INF/classes/cutout.properties
-
-# configure during docker build-time
-
-COPY deps/vlkb-obscore.datasets.conf ${INST_DIR}/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf
-COPY deps/vlkbd.datasets.conf ${INST_DIR}/etc/vlkbd/datasets.conf
-
-# precofigure port 8080 (no SSL)
-COPY deps/server.xml deps/server-connector.xml /etc/tomcat9/
-
-# configure during docker run-time
-
-COPY start-soda.sh /root
-
-RUN echo "alias log-catalina='ls -t /var/log/tomcat9/catalina*.log | head -n 1 | xargs tail -200 '" >> /root/.bashrc$
-# run
+COPY entrypoint.sh /root
+RUN chmod +x /root/entrypoint.sh
+CMD ["sh", "-c", "/root/entrypoint.sh"]
 
-RUN pwd && chmod +x /root/start-soda.sh
-CMD ["sh", "-c", "/root/start-soda.sh"]
 
diff --git a/docker/Makefile b/docker/Makefile
index a1c84524fab6c190b76ef4673471136d918e1b94..f8ff482dba8b36870153786c99657ceab2bd90c3 100644
--- a/docker/Makefile
+++ b/docker/Makefile
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ ast-9.2.9.tar.gz:
 build-soda:
 	docker build --build-arg VLKB_VERSION=$(VERSION) -t soda -f Dockerfile.soda .
 
-build-vlkb:
-	docker build --build-arg VLKB_VERSION=$(VERSION) -t vlkb -f Dockerfile.vlkb .
+build-ingestion:
+	docker build --build-arg VLKB_VERSION=$(VERSION) -t ingestion -f Dockerfile.vlkb .
 
 
 # the docker-login below needed a ca-cert(?) which in the middle of the certificate-chain,
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ build-vlkb:
 # to download: use image: ... in compose.yaml or
 # docker run ... git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda
 
-publish-locally-soda:
-	docker tag soda git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:$(VERSION)
-	docker push     git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:$(VERSION)
-	docker image rm git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:$(VERSION)
+publish-locally-ingestion:
+	docker tag ingestion git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/ingestion:$(VERSION)
+	docker push     git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/ingestion:$(VERSION)
+	docker image rm git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/ingestion:$(VERSION)
 
 
 ##docker login registry.gitlab.com --> robert.butora xC*n
diff --git a/docker/deps/tomcat-users.xml b/docker/deps/tomcat-users.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6587e75e97ec68e52749cd93b9e2a54f5a28e76d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/deps/tomcat-users.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml"
+              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+              xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd"
+              version="1.0">
+<!--
+  NOTE:  By default, no user is included in the "manager-gui" role required
+  to operate the "/manager/html" web application.  If you wish to use this app,
+  you must define such a user - the username and password are arbitrary. It is
+  strongly recommended that you do NOT use one of the users in the commented out
+  section below since they are intended for use with the examples web
+  application.
+-->
+<!--
+  NOTE:  The sample user and role entries below are intended for use with the
+  examples web application. They are wrapped in a comment and thus are ignored
+  when reading this file. If you wish to configure these users for use with the
+  examples web application, do not forget to remove the <!.. ..> that surrounds
+  them. You will also need to set the passwords to something appropriate.
+-->
+<!--
+  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
+  <role rolename="role1"/>
+  <user username="tomcat" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="tomcat"/>
+  <user username="both" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
+  <user username="role1" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="role1"/>
+-->
+
+  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
+  <user username="admin" password="IA2lbt09" roles="manager-script"/>
+</tomcat-users>
+
diff --git a/docker/entrypoint.sh b/docker/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b99de38d2051abe8b6ab563b17fb3d067a338b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+{
+# echo "fits_path_datasets=/srv/datasets
+echo "pg_uri=$OBSCORE_DB_URI"
+echo "pg_schema=$OBSCORE_DB_SCHEMA"
+echo "obscore_access_url=$OBSCORE_ACCESS_URL"
+# echo obscore_access_format=application/fits
+# echo log_dir=/tmp
+# echo log_filename=vlkb-obscore.log
+} > $INST_DIR/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf
+
+
+/usr/sbin/sshd -D &
+
+wait -n
+
diff --git a/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml b/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml
index 9268806e37b36dbf1dde81e37a6bc0794549d804..a2544195ed3272e8b2ebb1566b6a9d5df6fbba13 100644
--- a/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml
+++ b/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-version: '2'
+#version: '2'
 
 services:
 
+  # from hot running the docker: psql -U postgres -l localhost
   vlkb-db:
     container_name: vlkb-db
-    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/butora/vlkb-datasets/postgres-pgsphere:latest
+    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-db/postgres-pgsphere:latest
+    #image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/butora/vlkb-datasets/postgres-pgsphere:latest
     #image: registry.gitlab.com/ska-telescope/src/visivo-vlkb-soda:1.5.2
     hostname: vlkb-db
     ports:
@@ -22,27 +24,20 @@ services:
     container_name: vlkb
       #image: soda:latest
       #image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/butora/vlkb-datasets/soda:latest
-    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:1.6.3
+    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/ingestion:1.7.10-7-g70b03e9
     hostname: vlkb
     ports:
            - 8080:8080
     environment:
-      #- SECURITY=
-        #- SECURITY=ia2token
-        #- VLKBOBSCORE_PG_URI=postgresql://vialactea:ia2vlkb@pasquale.ia2.inaf.it:5432/vialactea
-      - ACCESS_CONTEXT_ROOT=vlkb#datasets
-      #- URL_CUTOUTS=vlkb-devel.ia2.inaf.it:8004/cutouts
-      - URL_CUTOUTS=http://localhost:8080/vlkb/datasets/cutouts
-      - RESPONSE_FORMAT=application/x-vlkb+xml
-      #- RESPONSE_FORMAT=application/fits
-      #- RESPONSE_FORMAT=application/fits;createfile=yes
-      #- AMQP_QUEUE_NAME=vlkb#datasets
+      #-OBSCORE_DB_URI=postgresql://vialactea:ia2vlkb@pasquale.ia2.inaf.it:5432/vialacteadevel
+      - OBSCORE_DB_URI=postgresql://vialactea:ia2vlkb@vlkb-db:5432/vialactea
+      - OBSCORE_DB_SCHEMA=datasets
+      - OBSCORE_ACCESS_URL="somedummytext"
     volumes:
-      - /srv/vlkb/surveys:/srv/surveys:ro
-      - /srv/vlkb/cutouts:/srv/cutouts:rw
+      #- /media/robi/WORK/w/git/vlkb-soda/docker/start-vlkb.log:/tmp/start-vlkb.log:rw
+      - /srv/vlkb/surveys:/srv/datasets:ro
         #restart: always
 
-
 volumes:
   postgres-data: