diff --git a/build_and_push_docker_images.sh b/build_and_push_docker_images.sh
index cc1e40d3b..cca279ffa 100755
--- a/build_and_push_docker_images.sh
+++ b/build_and_push_docker_images.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ dockerfiles/theia
 dockerfiles/theia-endpoint-runtime
 dockerfiles/remote-plugin-runner-java8
 dockerfiles/remote-plugin-go-1.10.7
+dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2
 )
 
 IMAGES_LIST=(
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ eclipse/che-theia
 eclipse/che-theia-endpoint-runtime
 eclipse/che-remote-plugin-runner-java8
 eclipse/che-remote-plugin-go-1.10.7
+eclipse/che-remote-plugin-python-3.7.2
 )
 
 
diff --git a/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a090b942e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made
+# available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+# which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+#
+# Contributors:
+#   Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+
+FROM ${BUILD_ORGANIZATION}/${BUILD_PREFIX}-theia-endpoint-runtime:${BUILD_TAG}
+
+# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
+ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
+
+# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
+# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+
+# install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
+# other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
+
+ENV GPG_KEY 0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
+ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.7.2
+
+RUN set -ex \
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps \
+		gnupg \
+		tar \
+		xz \
+	\
+	&& wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
+	&& wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
+	&& export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
+	&& gpg --batch --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY" \
+	&& gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz \
+	&& { command -v gpgconf > /dev/null && gpgconf --kill all || :; } \
+	&& rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc \
+	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
+	&& tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
+	&& rm python.tar.xz \
+	\
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps  \
+		bzip2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		expat-dev \
+		findutils \
+		gcc \
+		gdbm-dev \
+		libc-dev \
+		libffi-dev \
+		libnsl-dev \
+		libtirpc-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		make \
+		ncurses-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		pax-utils \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+		tcl-dev \
+		tk \
+		tk-dev \
+		util-linux-dev \
+		xz-dev \
+		zlib-dev \
+# add build deps before removing fetch deps in case there's overlap
+	&& apk del .fetch-deps \
+	\
+	&& cd /usr/src/python \
+	&& gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)" \
+	&& ./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
+		--enable-shared \
+		--with-system-expat \
+		--with-system-ffi \
+		--without-ensurepip \
+	&& make -j "$(nproc)" \
+# set thread stack size to 1MB so we don't segfault before we hit sys.getrecursionlimit()
+# https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/commit/2026e1259422d4e0cf92391ca2d3844356c649d0
+		EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DTHREAD_STACK_SIZE=0x100000" \
+	&& make install \
+	\
+	&& find /usr/local -type f -executable -not \( -name '*tkinter*' \) -exec scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' '{}' ';' \
+		| tr ',' '\n' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+		| xargs -rt apk add --no-cache --virtual .python-rundeps \
+	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .python-rundeps \
+		ctags \
+	&& find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
+			-o \
+			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
+	&& rm -rf /usr/src/python \
+	\
+	&& python3 --version
+
+# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist
+RUN cd /usr/local/bin \
+	&& ln -s idle3 idle \
+	&& ln -s pydoc3 pydoc \
+	&& ln -s python3 python \
+	&& ln -s python3-config python-config
+
+# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
+ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 19.0.3
+
+RUN set -ex; \
+	\
+	wget -O get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'; \
+	\
+	python get-pip.py \
+		--disable-pip-version-check \
+		--no-cache-dir \
+		"pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
+	; \
+	pip --version \
+	; \
+	sudo pip install --upgrade pip && \
+    sudo pip install --no-cache-dir virtualenv && \
+    sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools \
+	; \	
+	pip install pylint python-language-server[all] \
+	; \
+	find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
+			-o \
+			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
+	rm -f get-pip.py \
+	; \
+	apk del .build-deps
diff --git a/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2/build.sh b/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d72154908
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/remote-plugin-python-3.7.2/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made
+# available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+# which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+#
+
+base_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)
+. "${base_dir}"/../build.include
+
+init --name:remote-plugin-python-3.7.2 "$@"
+build