diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,42 @@
 
 is a web-application to access astronomical data stored in FITS-files.
 It implements SODA IVOA recommendation v1.0 (https://ivoa.net/documents/SODA/20170517/index.html).
+
+Docker image is available in this repository and cean be launched by the following compose.yaml
+
+```yaml
+version: '3' 
+
+services:
+
+  soda:
+    container_name: soda-vlkb
+    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:1.6.3
+    ports:
+      - 18019:8080
+    environment:
+      - ACCESS_CONTEXT_ROOT=ska#datasets
+    volumes:
+      - /srv/ska/surveys:/srv/surveys:z,ro
+    restart: always
+
+
+  soda-ssl:
+    container_name: soda-ssl-vlkb
+    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:1.6.3
+    ports:
+      - 18025:8443
+    environment:
+      - SECURITY=ia2token
+      - ACCESS_CONTEXT_ROOT=ska#datasets
+    volumes:
+      - /srv/ska/surveys:/srv/surveys:z,ro
+    restart: always
+```
+
+
+## SODA for VLKB
+
 Additionally to SODAv1 it also provides VLKB-specific functions:
 
 - the filtering paramters (POS, BAND) can be given in GALACTIC and VELO-LSRK-km/s coordinates systems
diff --git a/docker/example-compose-ska-soda.yaml b/docker/example-compose-ska-soda.yaml
index cd555e7948d57b8895e3bdfe3b8a99e971c52384..416d57af4c59db230c68ebf7db8c4f5d2d8bb0fa 100644
--- a/docker/example-compose-ska-soda.yaml
+++ b/docker/example-compose-ska-soda.yaml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ services:
       #- RESPONSE_FORMAT=application/fits;createfile=yes
     volumes:
       - /srv/ska/surveys:/srv/surveys:z,ro
-      - /srv/ska/cutouts:/srv/cutouts:z,rw
+        #- /srv/ska/cutouts:/srv/cutouts:z,rw
     restart: always
 
 
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ services:
       #- RESPONSE_FORMAT=application/fits;createfile=yes
     volumes:
       - /srv/ska/surveys:/srv/surveys:z,ro
-      - /srv/ska/cutouts:/srv/cutouts:z,rw
+        #- /srv/ska/cutouts:/srv/cutouts:z,rw
     restart: always
 
diff --git a/docker/example-compose-soda.yaml b/docker/example-compose-soda.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf96f18f5f3614f5a77df7a0c9f7254befc0693a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/example-compose-soda.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+version: '3'
+
+services:
+
+  soda:
+    container_name: soda-vlkb
+    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:1.6.3
+    ports:
+      - 18019:8080
+    environment:
+      - ACCESS_CONTEXT_ROOT=ska#datasets
+    volumes:
+      - /srv/ska/surveys:/srv/surveys:z,ro
+    restart: always
+
+
+  soda-ssl:
+    container_name: soda-ssl-vlkb
+    image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/vialactea/vlkb-soda/soda:1.6.3
+    ports:
+      - 18025:8443
+    environment:
+      - SECURITY=ia2token
+      - ACCESS_CONTEXT_ROOT=ska#datasets
+    volumes:
+      - /srv/ska/surveys:/srv/surveys:z,ro
+    restart: always
+
diff --git a/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml b/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml
index 46c34f68598e6af733dc490b6e564f7c9c609c9a..83066941addade4e88af9231c3cb9da4a18ff9ad 100644
--- a/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml
+++ b/docker/example-compose-vlkb.yaml
@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ services:
 
   vlkb:
     container_name: vlkb
-    image: soda:latest
-    #image: git.ia2.inaf.it:5050/butora/vlkb-datasets/soda:latest
+      #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
     hostname: vlkb
     ports:
            - 8080:8080
     environment:
-      - SECURITY=
+      #- SECURITY=
         #- SECURITY=ia2token
         #- VLKBOBSCORE_PG_URI=postgresql://vialactea:ia2vlkb@pasquale.ia2.inaf.it:5432/vialactea
       - ACCESS_CONTEXT_ROOT=vlkb#datasets