diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b5246b398..9879e811b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@
 /victoria-metrics-data
 /vmstorage-data
 /vmselect-cache
+/package/temp-deb-*
+/package/*.deb
diff --git a/app/victoria-metrics/Makefile b/app/victoria-metrics/Makefile
index 706439fe1..79b82274f 100644
--- a/app/victoria-metrics/Makefile
+++ b/app/victoria-metrics/Makefile
@@ -25,3 +25,18 @@ victoria-metrics-arm:
 
 victoria-metrics-arm64:
 	CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc CGO_ENABLED=1 GOARCH=arm64 GO111MODULE=on go build -mod=vendor -ldflags "$(GO_BUILDINFO)" -o bin/victoria-metrics-arm64 ./app/victoria-metrics
+
+### Packaging for Debian - amd64
+victoria-metrics-package-deb: victoria-metrics
+	echo "GO_BUILDINFO:" "$(GO_BUILDINFO)"
+	echo "PWD:" "$(PWD)"
+	./package/package_deb.sh amd64
+
+### Packaging for Debian - arm64
+victoria-metrics-package-deb-arm64: victoria-metrics-arm64
+	./package/package_deb.sh arm64
+
+victoria-metrics-package-deb-all: \
+        victoria-metrics-package-deb \
+        victoria-metrics-package-deb-arm64
+
diff --git a/package/VAR_BUILD b/package/VAR_BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d00491fd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/VAR_BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1
diff --git a/package/VAR_VERSION b/package/VAR_VERSION
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd8bf882d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/VAR_VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1.7.0
diff --git a/package/deb/conffile b/package/deb/conffile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/package/deb/control b/package/deb/control
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a1666eba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/deb/control
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Package: victoria-metrics
+Maintainer: Aliaksandr Valialkin
+Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
+Section: net
+Priority: optional
+Homepage: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
+Description: VictoriaMetrics is fast, cost-effective and scalable time series database. It can be used as a long-term remote storage for Prometheus.
diff --git a/package/deb/postinst b/package/deb/postinst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c913aa083
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/deb/postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# Reload systemd unit
+systemctl daemon-reload
diff --git a/package/deb/postrm b/package/deb/postrm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/package/package_deb.sh b/package/package_deb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d3e2272c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/package_deb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+ARCH="amd64"
+if [[ $# -ge 1 ]]
+then
+    ARCH="$1"
+fi
+
+# Map to Debian architecture
+if [[ "$ARCH" == "amd64" ]]; then
+    DEB_ARCH=amd64
+	EXENAME_SRC="victoria-metrics"
+elif [[ "$ARCH" == "arm64" ]]; then
+    DEB_ARCH=arm64
+    EXENAME_SRC="victoria-metrics-arm64"
+else
+    echo "*** Unknown arch $ARCH"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+PACKDIR="./package"
+TEMPDIR="${PACKDIR}/temp-deb-${DEB_ARCH}"
+EXENAME_DST="victoria-metrics"
+
+# Pull in version info
+
+VERSION=`cat ${PACKDIR}/VAR_VERSION | perl -ne 'chomp and print'`
+BUILD=`cat ${PACKDIR}/VAR_BUILD | perl -ne 'chomp and print'`
+
+# Create directories
+
+[[ -d "${TEMPDIR}" ]] && rm -rf "${TEMPDIR}"
+
+mkdir -p "${TEMPDIR}" && echo "*** Created   : ${TEMPDIR}"
+
+mkdir -p "${TEMPDIR}/usr/sbin/"
+mkdir -p "${TEMPDIR}/lib/systemd/system/"
+
+echo "*** Version   : ${VERSION}-${BUILD}"
+echo "*** Arch      : ${DEB_ARCH}"
+
+OUT_DEB="victoria-metrics_${VERSION}-${BUILD}_$DEB_ARCH.deb"
+
+echo "*** Out .deb  : ${OUT_DEB}"
+
+# Copy the binary
+
+cp "./bin/${EXENAME_SRC}" "${TEMPDIR}/usr/sbin/${EXENAME_DST}"
+file "${TEMPDIR}/usr/sbin/${EXENAME_DST}"
+
+# Copy supporting files
+
+cp "${PACKDIR}/victoria-metrics.service" "${TEMPDIR}/lib/systemd/system/"
+
+# Generate debian-binary
+
+echo "2.0" > "${TEMPDIR}/debian-binary"
+
+# Generate control
+
+echo "Version: $VERSION-$BUILD" > "${TEMPDIR}/control"
+echo "Installed-Size:" `du -sb "${TEMPDIR}" | awk '{print int($1/1024)}'` >> "${TEMPDIR}/control"
+echo "Architecture: $DEB_ARCH" >> "${TEMPDIR}/control"
+cat "${PACKDIR}/deb/control" >> "${TEMPDIR}/control"
+
+# Copy conffile
+
+cp "${PACKDIR}/deb/conffile" "${TEMPDIR}/conffile"
+
+# Copy postinst and postrm
+
+cp "${PACKDIR}/deb/postinst" "${TEMPDIR}/postinst"
+cp "${PACKDIR}/deb/postrm" "${TEMPDIR}/postrm"
+
+(
+    # Generate md5 sums
+
+    cd "${TEMPDIR}"
+
+    find ./usr ./lib -type f | while read i ; do
+        md5sum "$i" | sed 's/\.\///g' >> md5sums
+    done
+
+    # Archive control
+
+    chmod 644 control md5sums
+    chmod 755 postrm postinst
+    fakeroot -- tar -c --xz -f ./control.tar.xz ./control ./md5sums ./postinst ./postrm
+
+    # Archive data
+
+    fakeroot -- tar -c --xz -f ./data.tar.xz ./usr ./lib
+
+    # Make final archive
+
+    fakeroot -- ar -cr "${OUT_DEB}" debian-binary control.tar.xz data.tar.xz
+)
+
+ls -lh "${TEMPDIR}/${OUT_DEB}"
+
+cp "${TEMPDIR}/${OUT_DEB}" "${PACKDIR}"
+
+echo "*** Created   : ${PACKDIR}/${OUT_DEB}"
diff --git a/package/victoria-metrics.service b/package/victoria-metrics.service
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c45bd34d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/victoria-metrics.service
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective and scalable time series database.
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+StartLimitBurst=5
+StartLimitInterval=0
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=1
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/victoria-metrics -storageDataPath /var/lib/victoria-metrics -retentionPeriod 12
+ExecStop=/bin/kill -s SIGTERM $MAINPID
+LimitNOFILE=32000
+LimitNPROC=32000
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target