diff --git a/etc/murano/murano-api.conf.sample b/etc/murano/murano-api.conf.sample
index 9dad793f..eb81cd21 100644
--- a/etc/murano/murano-api.conf.sample
+++ b/etc/murano/murano-api.conf.sample
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ bind_port = 8082
 # Directory to store application package cache
 # packages_cache =
 
+# Maximum application package size, Mb
+package_size_limit = 5
+
 # Set up logging. Make sure the user has permissions to write to this file! To use syslog just set use_syslog parameter value to 'True'.
 log_file = /tmp/murano-api.log
 
diff --git a/muranoapi/api/v1/catalog.py b/muranoapi/api/v1/catalog.py
index 9d77a931..2bb2ca89 100644
--- a/muranoapi/api/v1/catalog.py
+++ b/muranoapi/api/v1/catalog.py
@@ -74,9 +74,26 @@ def _get_filters(query_params):
 
 
 def _validate_body(body):
+    """
+    Check multipart/form-data has two parts: text (which is json string and
+    should parsed into dictionary in serializer) and file, which stores as
+    cgi.FieldStorage instance. Also validate file size doesn't exceed
+    the limit: seek to the end of the file, get the position of EOF and
+    reset the file position to the beginning
+    """
+    def check_file_size(f):
+        pkg_size_limit = CONF.package_size_limit * 1024 * 1024
+        f.seek(0, 2)
+        size = f.tell()
+        f.seek(0)
+        if size > pkg_size_limit:
+            raise exc.HTTPBadRequest('Uploading file is too large.'
+                                     ' The limit is {0}'
+                                     ' Mb'.format(CONF.package_size_limit))
+
     if len(body.keys()) != 2:
         msg = _("'multipart/form-data' request body should contain "
-                "2 parts: json string and zip archivel. Current body consist "
+                "2 parts: json string and zip archive. Current body consist "
                 "of {0} part(s)").format(len(body.keys()))
         LOG.error(msg)
         raise exc.HTTPBadRequest(msg)
@@ -85,15 +102,16 @@ def _validate_body(body):
     for part in body.values():
         if isinstance(part, cgi.FieldStorage):
             file_obj = part
-            # dict if json deserialized successfully
+            check_file_size(file_obj.file)
+
         if isinstance(part, dict):
             package_meta = part
     if file_obj is None:
-        msg = _("There is no file package with application description")
+        msg = _('There is no file package with application description')
         LOG.error(msg)
         raise exc.HTTPBadRequest(msg)
     if package_meta is None:
-        msg = _("There is no json with meta information about package")
+        msg = _('There is no json with meta information about package')
         LOG.error(msg)
         raise exc.HTTPBadRequest(msg)
     return file_obj, package_meta
diff --git a/muranoapi/common/config.py b/muranoapi/common/config.py
index a0239c30..4e12870b 100644
--- a/muranoapi/common/config.py
+++ b/muranoapi/common/config.py
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ metadata_dir = cfg.StrOpt('metadata-dir', default='./meta')
 temp_pkg_cache = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'murano-packages-cache')
 packages_cache = cfg.StrOpt('packages-cache', default=temp_pkg_cache)
 
+package_size_limit = cfg.IntOpt('package_size_limit', default=5)
+
 CONF = cfg.CONF
 CONF.register_opts(paste_deploy_opts, group='paste_deploy')
 CONF.register_cli_opts(bind_opts)
@@ -111,6 +113,7 @@ CONF.register_opt(cfg.StrOpt('file_server'))
 CONF.register_cli_opt(cfg.StrOpt('murano_metadata_url'))
 CONF.register_cli_opt(metadata_dir)
 CONF.register_cli_opt(packages_cache)
+CONF.register_cli_opt(package_size_limit)
 CONF.register_opts(stats_opt, group='stats')
 
 CONF.import_opt('connection',