However, initial development was done on GCE and so our instructions and scripts are built around that. If you make it work on other infrastructure please let us know and contribute instructions/code.
While the concepts and architecture in Kubernetes represent years of experience designing and building large scale cluster manager at Google, the Kubernetes project is still under heavy development. Expect bugs, design and API changes as we bring it to a stable, production product over the coming year.
2. Make sure you can start up a GCE VM. At least make sure you can do the [Create an instance](https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart#addvm) part of the GCE Quickstart.
The script above relies on Google Storage to deploy the software to instances running in GCE. It uses the Google Storage APIs so the "Google Cloud Storage JSON API" setting must be enabled for the project in the Google Developers Console (https://cloud.google.com/console#/project).
The instances must also be able to connect to each other using their private IP. The script uses the "default" network which should have a firewall rule called "default-allow-internal" which allows traffic on any port on the private IPs.
If this rule is missing from the default network or if you change the network being used in `cluster/config-default.sh` create a new rule with the following field values:
* Source Ranges: 10.0.0.0/8
* Allowed Protocols or Port: tcp:1-65535;udp:1-65535;icmp
This will build and start a lightweight local cluster, consisting of a master and a single minion. Type Control-C to shut it down.
If you are running both a remote kubernetes cluster and the local cluster, you can determine which you talk to using the ```KUBERNETES_MASTER``` environment variable.
The folks at [CoreOS](http://coreos.com) have [instructions for running Kubernetes on CoreOS](http://coreos.com/blog/running-kubernetes-example-on-CoreOS-part-1/)
If you have questions or want to start contributing please reach out. We don't bite!
The Kubernetes team is hanging out on IRC on the [#google-containers room on freenode.net](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=google-containers). We also have the [google-containers Google Groups mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-containers).
If you are a company and are looking for a more formal engagement with Google around Kubernetes and containers at Google as a whole, please fill out [this form](https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1_RfwC8LZU4CKe4vKq32x5xpEJI5QZ-j0ShGmZVv9cm4/viewform). and we'll be in touch.