diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 198ba3fc..0e191af6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ TEST_OPTS_DOCKER ?=
 MQ_IMAGE_ADVANCEDSERVER ?=mqadvanced-server:$(MQ_VERSION)-$(ARCH)-$(BASE_IMAGE_TAG)
 # MQ_IMAGE_DEVSERVER is the name and tag of the built MQ Advanced for Developers image
 MQ_IMAGE_DEVSERVER ?=mqadvanced-server-dev:$(MQ_VERSION)-$(ARCH)-$(BASE_IMAGE_TAG)
+# MQ_IMAGE_SDK is the name and tag of the built MQ Advanced for Developers SDK image
+MQ_IMAGE_SDK ?=mq-sdk:$(MQ_VERSION)-$(ARCH)-$(BASE_IMAGE_TAG)
+# MQ_IMAGE_GOLANG_SDK is the name and tag of the built MQ Advanced for Developers SDK image, plus Go tools
+MQ_IMAGE_GOLANG_SDK ?=mq-golang-sdk:$(MQ_VERSION)-$(ARCH)-$(BASE_IMAGE_TAG)
 # DOCKER is the Docker command to run
 DOCKER ?= docker
 # MQ_PACKAGES specifies the MQ packages (.deb or .rpm) to install.  Defaults vary on base image.
@@ -238,6 +242,13 @@ build-advancedserver-cover: docker-version
 build-explorer: downloads/$(MQ_ARCHIVE_DEV)
 	$(call docker-build-mq,mq-explorer:latest-$(ARCH),incubating/mq-explorer/Dockerfile-mq-explorer,$(MQ_ARCHIVE_DEV),"98102d16795c4263ad9ca075190a2d4d","IBM MQ Advanced for Developers (Non-Warranted)",$(MQ_VERSION))
 
+build-sdk: downloads/$(MQ_ARCHIVE) docker-version
+	$(call docker-build-mq,$(MQ_IMAGE_SDK),incubating/mq-sdk/Dockerfile,$(MQ_ARCHIVE_DEV),"98102d16795c4263ad9ca075190a2d4d","IBM MQ Advanced for Developers SDK (Non-Warranted)",$(MQ_VERSION))
+
+build-golang-sdk: build-sdk
+	$(DOCKER) build --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(MQ_IMAGE_SDK) -t $(MQ_IMAGE_GOLANG_SDK) -f incubating/mq-golang-sdk/Dockerfile .
+#	$(call docker-build-mq,$(MQ_IMAGE_GOLANG_SDK),incubating/mq-golang-sdk/Dockerfile,$(MQ_ARCHIVE),"98102d16795c4263ad9ca075190a2d4d","IBM MQ Advanced for Developers SDK (Non-Warranted)",$(MQ_VERSION))
+
 GO_PKG_DIRS = ./cmd ./internal ./test
 
 fmt: $(addsuffix /$(wildcard *.go), $(GO_PKG_DIRS))
diff --git a/incubating/mq-golang-sdk/Dockerfile b/incubating/mq-golang-sdk/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..03971999
--- /dev/null
+++ b/incubating/mq-golang-sdk/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# © Copyright IBM Corporation 2018
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=mq-sdk:9.0.5.0-x86_64-ubuntu-16.04
+
+FROM $BASE_IMAGE
+
+ENV GO_VERSION=1.10
+
+# Install the Go compiler and Git
+RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
+  && bash -c 'source /etc/os-release; \
+     echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${UBUNTU_CODENAME} main restricted" > /etc/apt/sources.list; \
+     echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}-updates main restricted" >> /etc/apt/sources.list; \
+     echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}-backports main restricted universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list;' \
+  && apt-get update \
+  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends golang-${GO_VERSION} git ca-certificates \
+  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PATH="${PATH}:/usr/lib/go-${GO_VERSION}/bin"
+ENV CGO_CFLAGS="-I/opt/mqm/inc/"
+ENV CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-Wl,-rpath.*"
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diff --git a/incubating/mq-golang-sdk/README.md b/incubating/mq-golang-sdk/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca301a21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/incubating/mq-golang-sdk/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# IBM MQ Software Developer Kit (SDK) with Go
+
+This image contains the MQ SDK, Git, the Go compiler, and the `build-essential` package (which includes GNU C and C++ compilers plus other essential tools like `make`).
+
+This image doesn't contain any Go code for MQ.  You can add a CGO wrapper for the MQ C client, for example [mq-golang](https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang), via your vendor directory, or directly using `go get`.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/incubating/mq-sdk/Dockerfile b/incubating/mq-sdk/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1233d819
--- /dev/null
+++ b/incubating/mq-sdk/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# © Copyright IBM Corporation 2018
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+
+# The URL to download the MQ installer from in tar.gz format
+# This assumes an archive containing the MQ Debian (.deb) install packages
+ARG MQ_URL
+
+# The packages to install in install-mq.sh
+ENV MQ_PACKAGES="ibmmq-sdk ibmmq-samples build-essential"
+
+COPY install-mq.sh /usr/local/bin/
+
+# Install MQ.  To avoid a "text file busy" error here, we sleep before installing.
+# Need to re-instate the `/var/mqm` directory after installation, to avoid MQ 
+# errors with some commands (e.g. `dspmqver`)
+RUN chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/install-mq.sh \
+  && sleep 1 \
+  && install-mq.sh \
+  && rm -rf /var/mqm \
+  && /opt/mqm/bin/crtmqdir -f -s
diff --git a/incubating/mq-sdk/README.md b/incubating/mq-sdk/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44a7262a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/incubating/mq-sdk/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# IBM MQ Software Developer Kit (SDK)
+
+This image contains the MQ SDK and the `build-essential` package, which includes GNU C and C++ compilers plus other essential tools.
+
+## Usage
+
+For example, you could compile the `amqsput0.c` sample program by running the following command in an SDK container:
+
+```sh
+gcc -o /tmp/amqsput0 /opt/mqm/samp/amqsput0.c -I /opt/mqm/inc -L /opt/mqm/lib64 -lmqm
+```
+
+Compiler and linker output is placed on the container's filesystem, so using multi-stage Docker builds is useful to build a final container.