diff --git a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/.gitignore b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..89620f31052a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+BUILD
diff --git a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/Dockerfile b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8f538ece3983d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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.
+#
+
+# Build pulsar client library in Centos with tools to
+
+FROM debian:9
+
+ RUN apt-get update && \
+     apt-get install -y curl g++ make libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev python-dev \
+                libxml2-utils git
+
+# Download and compile boost
+RUN curl -O -L https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.64.0/source/boost_1_64_0.tar.gz && \
+    tar xvfz boost_1_64_0.tar.gz && \
+    cd /boost_1_64_0 && \
+    ./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=program_options,filesystem,regex,thread,system,python && \
+    ./b2 address-model=64 cxxflags=-fPIC link=static threading=multi variant=release install && \
+    rm -rf /boost_1_64_0.tar.gz /boost_1_64_0
+
+RUN curl -O -L https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/archive/v3.8.2.tar.gz && \
+    tar xvfz v3.8.2.tar.gz && \
+    cd CMake-3.8.2 && \
+    ./configure && \
+    make && make install && \
+    rm -rf /v3.8.2.tar.gz /CMake-3.8.2
+
+# Compile JSON CPP
+RUN curl -O -L  https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/archive/1.8.0.tar.gz && \
+    tar xvfz 1.8.0.tar.gz && \
+    cd jsoncpp-1.8.0 && \
+    cmake . -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON && \
+    make && make install && \
+    rm -rf /1.8.0.tar.gz /jsoncpp-1.8.0
+
+# Download and copile protoubf
+RUN curl -O -L  https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.3.0/protobuf-cpp-3.3.0.tar.gz && \
+    tar xvfz protobuf-cpp-3.3.0.tar.gz && \
+    cd protobuf-3.3.0/ && \
+    CXXFLAGS=-fPIC ./configure && \
+    make && make install && ldconfig && \
+    rm -rf /protobuf-cpp-3.3.0.tar.gz /protobuf-3.3.0
+
+# ZLib
+RUN curl -O -L https://github.com/madler/zlib/archive/v1.2.11.tar.gz && \
+    tar xvfz v1.2.11.tar.gz && \
+    cd zlib-1.2.11 && \
+    CFLAGS="-fPIC -O3" ./configure && \
+    make && make install && \
+    rm -rf /zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz /zlib-1.2.11
+
+# LibCurl
+RUN curl -O -L  https://github.com/curl/curl/releases/download/curl-7_54_0/curl-7.54.0.tar.gz && \
+    tar xvfz curl-7.54.0.tar.gz && \
+    cd curl-7.54.0 && \
+    CFLAGS=-fPIC ./configure && \
+    make && make install && \
+    rm -rf /curl-7.54.0.tar.gz /curl-7.54.0
+
+
+RUN apt-get install -y dpkg-dev
diff --git a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-deb.sh b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-deb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..b0b17810f0ed9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-deb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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.
+#
+
+set -e -x
+
+cd /pulsar
+SRC_ROOT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+cd $SRC_ROOT_DIR/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb
+
+POM_VERSION=`cat ../../../pom.xml | xmllint --format - | sed "s/xmlns=\".*\"//g" | xmllint --stream --pattern /project/version --debug - |  grep -A 2 "matches pattern" |  grep text |  sed "s/.* [0-9] //g"`
+# Sanitize VERSION by removing `-incubating` since it's not legal in DEB
+VERSION=`echo $POM_VERSION | awk -F-  '{print $1}'`
+
+ROOT_DIR=apache-pulsar-$POM_VERSION
+CPP_DIR=$ROOT_DIR/pulsar-client-cpp
+
+rm -rf BUILD
+mkdir BUILD
+cd BUILD
+tar xfz $SRC_ROOT_DIR/all/target/apache-pulsar-$POM_VERSION-src.tar.gz
+pushd $CPP_DIR
+
+cmake . -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DLINK_STATIC=ON
+make pulsarShared pulsarStatic -j 3
+strip lib/libpulsar.*
+popd
+
+DEST_DIR=pulsar-client
+mkdir -p $DEST_DIR/DEBIAN
+cat <<EOF > $DEST_DIR/DEBIAN/control
+Package: pulsar-client
+Version: ${VERSION}
+Maintainer: Apache Pulsar <dev@pulsar.incubator.apache.org>
+Architecture: amd64
+Description: The Apache Pulsar client contains a C++ and C APIs to interact with Apache Pulsar brokers.
+EOF
+
+DEVEL_DEST_DIR=pulsar-client-dev
+mkdir -p $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/DEBIAN
+cat <<EOF > $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/DEBIAN/control
+Package: pulsar-client-dev
+Version: ${VERSION}
+Maintainer: Apache Pulsar <dev@pulsar.incubator.apache.org>
+Architecture: amd64
+Description: The Apache Pulsar client contains a C++ and C APIs to interact with Apache Pulsar brokers.
+EOF
+
+mkdir -p $DEST_DIR/usr/lib
+mkdir -p $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/usr/lib
+mkdir -p $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/usr/include
+mkdir -p $DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-$VERSION
+mkdir -p $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-dev-$VERSION
+
+cp -ar $CPP_DIR/include/pulsar $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/usr/include/
+cp $CPP_DIR/lib/libpulsar.a $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/usr/lib
+cp $CPP_DIR/lib/libpulsar.so.$POM_VERSION $DEST_DIR/usr/lib
+pushd $DEST_DIR/usr/lib
+ln -s libpulsar.so.$POM_VERSION libpulsar.so
+popd
+
+cp $ROOT_DIR/DISCLAIMER $DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-$VERSION
+cp $ROOT_DIR/NOTICE $DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-$VERSION
+cp $CPP_DIR/pkg/licenses/* $DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-$VERSION
+cp $CPP_DIR/pkg/licenses/LICENSE.txt $DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-$VERSION/copyright
+cp $CPP_DIR/pkg/licenses/LICENSE.txt $DEST_DIR/DEBIAN/copyright
+cp $CPP_DIR/pkg/licenses/LICENSE.txt $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/DEBIAN/copyright
+
+cp $DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-$VERSION/* $DEVEL_DEST_DIR/usr/share/doc/pulsar-client-dev-$VERSION
+
+
+## Build actual debian packages
+dpkg-deb --build pulsar-client
+dpkg-deb --build pulsar-client-dev
+
+mkdir DEB
+mv *.deb DEB
+cd DEB
+dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz
diff --git a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-docker-image.sh b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-docker-image.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..910aaaa591da0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-docker-image.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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.
+#
+
+docker build -t apachepulsar/pulsar-build:debian-9 .
diff --git a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/docker-build-deb.sh b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/docker-build-deb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..35d229e3293cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/docker-build-deb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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.
+#
+
+set -e
+
+ROOT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
+docker pull apachepulsar/pulsar-build:debian-9
+
+docker run -it -v $ROOT_DIR:/pulsar apachepulsar/pulsar-build:debian-9 \
+        /pulsar/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/build-deb.sh
diff --git a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/rpm/docker-build-rpm.sh b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/rpm/docker-build-rpm.sh
index 11b459273f1db..0e386cb3aa440 100755
--- a/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/rpm/docker-build-rpm.sh
+++ b/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/rpm/docker-build-rpm.sh
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ ROOT_DIR=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
 docker pull apachepulsar/pulsar-build:centos-7
 
 docker run -it -v $ROOT_DIR:/pulsar apachepulsar/pulsar-build:centos-7 \
-        /build-rpm.sh
+        /pulsar/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/rpm/build-rpm.sh
diff --git a/src/stage-release.sh b/src/stage-release.sh
index 4c29df5aaf0c6..c4091e8ad4e86 100755
--- a/src/stage-release.sh
+++ b/src/stage-release.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ cp $PULSAR_PATH/all/target/apache-pulsar-$VERSION-bin.tar.gz $DEST_PATH
 mkdir $DEST_PATH/RPMS
 cp -r $PULSAR_PATH/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/rpm/RPMS/x86_64/* $DEST_PATH/RPMS
 
+mkdir $DEST_PATH/DEB
+cp -r $PULSAR_PATH/pulsar-client-cpp/pkg/deb/BUILD/DEB/* $DEST_PATH/DEB
+
 # Sign all files
 cd $DEST_PATH
 find . -type f | xargs $PULSAR_PATH/src/sign-release.sh