diff --git a/Dockerfile.loaders b/Dockerfile.loaders
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..173ac7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile.loaders
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+ARG BASE
+
+FROM $BASE
+
+COPY swh-scheduler /app/swh-scheduler
+COPY swh-loader-core /app/swh-loader-core
+COPY swh-loader-git /app/swh-loader-git
+# COPY swh-loader-svn /app/swh/swh-loader-svn
+# COPY swh-loader-mercurial /app/swh/swh-loader-mercurial
+
+RUN pip install /app/swh-scheduler && pip install /app/swh-loader-core && pip install /app/swh-loader-git
+#    pip install /app/swh-loader-svn && pip install /app/swh-loader-mercurial
diff --git a/kubernetes/40-loaders.yml b/kubernetes/40-loaders.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8a2ad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/40-loaders.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: loaders
+data:
+  config.yml: |
+    storage:
+      cls: pipeline
+      steps:
+      - cls: buffer
+        min_batch_size:
+          content: 10000
+          content_bytes: 104857600
+          directory: 1000
+          revision: 1000
+      - cls: filter
+      - cls: retry
+      - cls: remote
+        url: http://storage:5002/
+
+    celery:
+      task_broker: amqp://guest:guest@amqp//
+      task_queues:
+       - swh.loader.dir.tasks.LoadDirRepository
+       - swh.loader.git.tasks.LoadDiskGitRepository
+       - swh.loader.git.tasks.UncompressAndLoadDiskGitRepository
+       - swh.loader.git.tasks.UpdateGitRepository
+       - swh.loader.package.archive.tasks.LoadArchive
+       - swh.loader.package.cran.tasks.LoadCRAN
+       - swh.loader.package.debian.tasks.LoadDebian
+       - swh.loader.package.npm.tasks.LoadNpm
+       - swh.loader.package.pypi.tasks.LoadPyPI
+
+       # - swh.loader.mercurial.tasks.LoadArchiveMercurial
+       # - swh.loader.mercurial.tasks.LoadMercurial
+       # - swh.loader.svn.tasks.DumpMountAndLoadSvnRepository
+       # - swh.loader.svn.tasks.LoadSvnRepository
+       # - swh.loader.svn.tasks.MountAndLoadSvnRepository
+  entrypoint-init.sh: |
+    #!/bin/bash
+
+    set -e
+
+    # echo Waiting for RabbitMQ to start
+    wait-for-it amqp:5672 -s --timeout=0
+
+    # echo Register task types in scheduler database
+    wait-for-it scheduler:5008 -s --timeout=0
+
+    swh scheduler --url http://scheduler:5008 task-type register
+  entrypoint.sh: |
+    #!/bin/bash
+
+    set -e
+
+    echo Starting the swh Celery worker
+    exec python -m celery \
+                --app=swh.scheduler.celery_backend.config.app \
+                worker \
+                --pool=prefork --events \
+                --concurrency=${CONCURRENCY} \
+                --max-tasks-per-child=${MAX_TASKS_PER_CHILD} \
+                -Ofair --loglevel=${LOGLEVEL} \
+                --hostname "swh-worker@foobar"
+
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: loaders
+  labels:
+    app: loaders
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: loaders
+  strategy:
+    type: RollingUpdate
+    rollingUpdate:
+      maxSurge: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: loaders
+    spec:
+      initContainers:
+        - name: loaders-init
+          image: swh/loaders:latest
+          imagePullPolicy: Always
+          command:
+            - /entrypoint.sh
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: config
+              mountPath: /etc/softwareheritage/config.yml
+              subPath: config.yml
+              readOnly: true
+            - name: config
+              mountPath: /entrypoint.sh
+              subPath: entrypoint-init.sh
+              readOnly: true
+      containers:
+      - name: loaders
+        image: swh/loaders:latest
+        imagePullPolicy: Always
+        command:
+          - /entrypoint.sh
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 5002
+        env:
+        - name: CONCURRENCY
+          value: "1"
+        - name: MAX_TASKS_PER_CHILD
+          value: "5"
+        - name: LOGLEVEL
+          value: "DEBUG"
+        - name: SWH_CONFIG_FILENAME
+          value: /etc/softwareheritage/config.yml
+        volumeMounts:
+          - name: config
+            mountPath: /etc/softwareheritage/config.yml
+            subPath: config.yml
+            readOnly: true
+          - name: config
+            mountPath: /entrypoint.sh
+            subPath: entrypoint.sh
+            readOnly: true
+      volumes:
+        - name: config
+          configMap:
+            name: loaders
+            defaultMode: 0777
diff --git a/skaffold.yaml b/skaffold.yaml
index 13fc4bb..69d05c8 100644
--- a/skaffold.yaml
+++ b/skaffold.yaml
@@ -1,44 +1,51 @@
 apiVersion: skaffold/v2beta13
 kind: Config
 metadata:
   name: swh-environment
 build:
   artifacts:
   - image: swh/stack-base
     docker:
       dockerfile: Dockerfile
   - image: swh/objstorage
     docker:
       dockerfile: Dockerfile.objstorage
     requires:
       - image: swh/stack-base
         alias: BASE
   - image: swh/storage
     docker:
       dockerfile: Dockerfile.storage
     requires:
       - image: swh/stack-base
         alias: BASE
   - image: swh/scheduler
     docker:
       dockerfile: Dockerfile.scheduler
     requires:
       - image: swh/stack-base
         alias: BASE
   - image: swh/webapp
     docker:
       dockerfile: Dockerfile.webapp
     requires:
       - image: swh/stack-base
         alias: BASE
+  - image: swh/loaders
+    docker:
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.loaders
+    requires:
+      - image: swh/stack-base
+        alias: BASE
 deploy:
   kubectl:
     manifests:
     - kubernetes/01-journal.yml
     - kubernetes/05-storage-db.yml
     - kubernetes/10-objstorage.yml
     - kubernetes/11-storage.yml
     - kubernetes/15-scheduler-db.yml
     - kubernetes/20-scheduler.yml
     - kubernetes/25-rabbitmq.yml
     - kubernetes/30-webapp.yml
+    - kubernetes/40-loaders.yml