diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 786f4056a41556e943031714646fb2b5704cc998..b343cf1fb6d2465e6c8170060a963f7ade97b44b 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2369,6 +2369,9 @@ Docker/lofar-base/bashrc.d/50-lofar -text
 Docker/lofar-base/chuser.sh -text
 Docker/lofar-outputproc/Dockerfile.tmpl -text
 Docker/lofar-pipeline/Dockerfile.tmpl -text
+Docker/lofar-pulp/Dockerfile.tmpl -text
+Docker/lofar-pulp/bashrc -text
+Docker/lofar-pulp/sudoers -text
 Docker/lofar-tbbwriter/Dockerfile -text
 Docker/lofar-tbbwriter/bashrc -text
 Docker/lofar-tbbwriter/chuser.sh -text
diff --git a/Docker/CMakeLists.txt b/Docker/CMakeLists.txt
index 2aab64bc7d23f4d08dd5f2203185f303f76552e8..a8965c57355c690988016853001b02ad7884e666 100644
--- a/Docker/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Docker/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ lofar_add_bin_program(versiondocker versiondocker.cc)
 set(DOCKER_TEMPLATE_DIRS
   lofar-base
   lofar-pipeline
+  lofar-pulp
   lofar-outputproc)
 
 # Note: "docker-template" only works as long as the sources are still around,
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ install(DIRECTORY
   dynspec
   lofar-base
   lofar-pipeline
+  lofar-pulp
   lofar-outputproc
   lofar-tbbwriter
   DESTINATION share/docker
diff --git a/Docker/lofar-pulp/Dockerfile.tmpl b/Docker/lofar-pulp/Dockerfile.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f214fa8d7659577aafe7d7fd87f2f78847624d16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Docker/lofar-pulp/Dockerfile.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#
+# base
+#
+FROM pulp:latest
+
+COPY ["sudoers", "/etc/"]
+
+# Run-time dependencies
+RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python-xmlrunner liblog4cplus-1.0-4 libxml2 libxml++2.6-2 openssh-client gettext-base rsync python-matplotlib
+#
+# *******************
+#   QPID client
+# *******************
+#
+
+ENV BOOST_VERSION=1.54
+
+# Run-time dependencies
+# QPID daemon legacy store would require: libaio1 libdb5.1++
+RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y sasl2-bin libuuid1 libnss3 libnspr4 xqilla
+
+# Install
+# QPID daemon legacy store would require: libaio-dev libdb5.1++-dev
+RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y ruby ruby-dev libsasl2-dev uuid-dev libxerces-c-dev libnss3-dev libnspr4-dev help2man libsslcommon2-dev libxqilla-dev && \
+    mkdir /opt/qpid && \
+    svn --non-interactive -q co https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/trunk/LCS/MessageBus/qpid/ /opt/qpid; \
+    bash -c "HOME=/tmp /opt/qpid/local/sbin/build_qpid" && \
+    bash -c "strip /opt/qpid/{bin,lib}/* || true" && \
+    bash -c "rm -rf /tmp/sources" && \
+    sudo apt-get purge -y ruby ruby-dev libsasl2-dev uuid-dev libxerces-c-dev libnss3-dev libnspr4-dev help2man libsslcommon2-dev libxqilla-dev && \
+    sudo apt-get autoremove -y
+
+#
+# *******************
+#   LOFAR
+# *******************
+#
+
+# Tell image build information
+ENV LOFAR_BRANCH=${LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME} \
+    LOFAR_TAG=${LOFAR_TAG} \
+    LOFAR_REVISION=${LOFAR_REVISION} \
+    LOFAR_BUILDVARIANT=gnu_optarch
+
+# Install
+#some are already installed, but we need boost, and RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y subversion cmake g++ gfortran bison flex liblog4cplus-dev libhdf5-dev libblitz0-dev python-dev libxml2-dev pkg-config libunittest++-dev libxml++2.6-dev binutils-dev && \
+RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y liblog4cplus-dev libhdf5-dev libblitz0-dev libunittest++-dev libxml++2.6-dev binutils-dev && \
+    mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/build/${LOFAR_BUILDVARIANT} && \
+    cd ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar && \
+    svn --non-interactive -q co -r ${LOFAR_REVISION} -N ${LOFAR_BRANCH_URL} src; \
+    svn --non-interactive -q up src/CMake && \
+    cd ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/build/${LOFAR_BUILDVARIANT} && cmake -DBUILD_PACKAGES="Pipeline MessageBus OTDB_Services" -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/ -DCASACORE_ROOT_DIR=${INSTALLDIR}/casacore/ -DQPID_ROOT_DIR=/opt/qpid/ -DUSE_OPENMP=True ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/src/ && \
+    cd ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/build/${LOFAR_BUILDVARIANT} && make -j ${J} && \
+    cd ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/build/${LOFAR_BUILDVARIANT} && make install && \
+    bash -c "mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/var/{log,run}" && \
+    bash -c "chmod a+rwx  ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/var/{log,run}" && \
+    bash -c "strip ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/{bin,sbin,lib64}/* || true" && \
+    bash -c "rm -rf ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/{build,src}" && \
+    sudo apt-get purge -y liblog4cplus-dev libhdf5-dev libblitz0-dev libunittest++-dev libxml++2.6-dev binutils-dev && \
+    sudo apt-get autoremove -y
+
+COPY ["bashrc", "/opt/"]
diff --git a/Docker/lofar-pulp/bashrc b/Docker/lofar-pulp/bashrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c9e948ce7e52aefa446f3db4a7f8df05afc0d4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Docker/lofar-pulp/bashrc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# lofar
+[ -r ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/lofarinit.sh ] && source ${INSTALLDIR}/lofar/lofarinit.sh
+export PATH PYTHONPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH LOFARROOT
+
+# qpid
+source ${INSTALLDIR}/qpid/.profile
+
+# lofarsoft
+source ${LOFARSOFT}/devel_common/scripts/init.sh
diff --git a/Docker/lofar-pulp/sudoers b/Docker/lofar-pulp/sudoers
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24c18523f4bf099e24b3c37970c974deeb796927
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Docker/lofar-pulp/sudoers
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL