diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile.ingestion b/docker/Dockerfile.ingestion
deleted file mode 100644
index a3a87b4cddbf039fb259938f0d47f52fbf10ca3f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/docker/Dockerfile.ingestion
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-FROM tomcat:9-jre17-temurin-jammy
-LABEL Description="VLKB Ingestion / Ubuntu 22 (Jammy Jellyfish)"
-
-COPY deps/ast_9.2.9-1_amd64.deb /tmp/
-
-RUN apt -y update \
- && apt -y install sudo procps psmisc \
-				curl wget vim make build-essential checkinstall tree htop unzip \
-            libcfitsio-dev libpqxx-dev libcsv-dev libdavix0v5 \
- && 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 openssh-server postgresql-client
-
-USER root
-RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash devel \
- && usermod -aG sudo devel \
- && echo 'devel:ia2vlkb' | chpasswd 
-
-USER devel
-ENV USER=devel
-WORKDIR /home/devel
-ENV HOME=/home/devel
-
-RUN echo "alias vlkb-dbinit='vlkb-obscore /usr/local/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf dbinit '" >> .bash_aliases
-RUN echo "alias vlkb-dbcheck='vlkb-obscore /usr/local/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf dbcheck '" >> .bash_aliases
-RUN echo "alias vlkb-dbadd='vlkb-obscore /usr/local/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf dbadd '" >> .bash_aliases
-RUN echo "alias vlkb-dbremove='vlkb-obscore /usr/local/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf dbremove '" >> .bash_aliases
-RUN echo "alias vlkb-dbmodgroups='vlkb-obscore /usr/local/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf dbmodgroups '" >> .bash_aliases
-
-# 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
-
-EXPOSE 22
-
-# vlkb-obscore*.deb installs to /usr/local
-ENV INST_DIR=/usr/local
-ARG VLKB_VERSION
-COPY vlkb-obscore-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb vlkb-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb ./
-RUN dpkg -i vlkb-obscore-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb vlkb-${VLKB_VERSION}.deb
-
-COPY start-ingestion.sh /root
-RUN chmod +x /root/start-ingestion.sh
-CMD ["/root/start-ingestion.sh"]
-
-
diff --git a/docker/Makefile b/docker/Makefile
index 3983bedf5d3c7c5cf8a32a45539ba833a0387182..6dc0f719c34f0abcd0ae918fef1f441139bb4153 100644
--- a/docker/Makefile
+++ b/docker/Makefile
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ deps/ast-9.2.9.tar.gz:
 build-soda:
 	docker build --progress=plain --no-cache --build-arg VLKB_VERSION=$(VERSION) -t soda -f Dockerfile.soda .
 
-.PHONY: build-ingestion
-build-ingestion:
-	docker build --build-arg VLKB_VERSION=$(VERSION) -t ingestion -f Dockerfile.ingestion .
-
-
 # the docker-login below needed a ca-cert(?) which in the middle of the certificate-chain,
 # but was not automatically downloaded and also local cert/ket pair(?) ->
 # -> see: /etc/docker/certs.d/git.ia2.ianf.it:5050/*
@@ -29,12 +24,6 @@ publish-locally-soda:
 	docker image rm git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:$(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:$(VERSION)
-
-
 ##docker login registry.gitlab.com --> robert.butora xC*n
 publish-remotely-to-ska:
 	docker tag soda registry.gitlab.com/ska-telescope/src/visivo-vlkb-soda:$(VERSION)
diff --git a/docker/example-compose-ingestion.yaml b/docker/example-compose-ingestion.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 188b705677c090397e00053efbeb4114c8694436..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/docker/example-compose-ingestion.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-
-services:
-
-  # from hot running the docker: psql -U postgres -l localhost
-  vlkb-db:
-    container_name: vlkb-db
-    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:
-            - 5432:5432
-    #image: postgres-pgsphere:latest
-    #network_mode: "host"
-    environment:
-      - SECURITY=
-      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ia2vlkb
-    volumes:
-      - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
-
-
-  vlkb:
-    container_name: vlkb
-    image: ingestion:latest
-    #image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/ingestion:1.7.10-7-g70b03e9
-    hostname: vlkb
-    #ports:
-    #  - 2222:22
-    environment:
-      #-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:
-      #- /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:
-
diff --git a/docker/start-ingestion.sh b/docker/start-ingestion.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index bc016b5183824812c845a54ed1824baddff03097..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/docker/start-ingestion.sh
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@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-
-{
-# echo "fits_path_datasets=/srv/datasets
-echo "pg_uri=$OBSCORE_DB_URI"
-echo "pg_schema=$OBSCORE_DB_SCHEMA"
-echo "obscore_access_url=$OBSCORE_ACCESS_URL"
-echo "obscore_publisher=$OBSCORE_PUBLISHER"
-# echo obscore_access_format=application/fits
-# echo log_dir=/tmp
-# echo log_filename=vlkb-obscore.log
-} > $INST_DIR/etc/vlkb-obscore/datasets.conf
-
-
-exec /usr/sbin/sshd -D