diff --git a/hack/.golint_failures b/hack/.golint_failures
index a918ef88f0..ac9e290a0a 100644
--- a/hack/.golint_failures
+++ b/hack/.golint_failures
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/pkg/client/custom_metrics/fake
 staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/pkg/client/custom_metrics/scheme
 staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/pkg/client/external_metrics
 staging/src/k8s.io/metrics/pkg/client/external_metrics/fake
+staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/pkg/apis/node/v1alpha1
 staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/pkg/admission/plugin/banflunder
 staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/pkg/admission/wardleinitializer
 staging/src/k8s.io/sample-apiserver/pkg/apis/wardle
diff --git a/hack/update-codegen.sh b/hack/update-codegen.sh
index 7c9edb94dd..c2fbd79945 100755
--- a/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -114,3 +114,4 @@ CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver
 CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/metrics/hack/update-codegen.sh
 CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
 CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/csi-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
+CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
diff --git a/hack/verify-codegen.sh b/hack/verify-codegen.sh
index de031bb298..9d02b38221 100755
--- a/hack/verify-codegen.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-codegen.sh
@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@ CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/sample-controller/hack/
 CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/hack/verify-codegen.sh
 CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/metrics/hack/verify-codegen.sh
 CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/csi-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
+CODEGEN_PKG=./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator vendor/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
 
 "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/update-codegen.sh" --verify-only
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/Godeps/Godeps.json b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/Godeps/Godeps.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/boilerplate.go.txt b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/boilerplate.go.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b7c650da47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/boilerplate.go.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+Copyright The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..c92b3cc9f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE})/..
+CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd ${SCRIPT_ROOT}; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator 2>/dev/null || echo ../code-generator)}
+
+# generate the code with:
+# --output-base    because this script should also be able to run inside the vendor dir of
+#                  k8s.io/kubernetes. The output-base is needed for the generators to output into the vendor dir
+#                  instead of the $GOPATH directly. For normal projects this can be dropped.
+${CODEGEN_PKG}/generate-groups.sh "deepcopy,client,informer,lister" \
+  k8s.io/node-api/pkg/client k8s.io/node-api/pkg/apis \
+  "node:v1alpha1" \
+  --output-base "$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE})/../../.." \
+  --go-header-file ${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate.go.txt
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d02a6fa395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/node-api/hack/verify-codegen.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+
+DIFFROOT="${SCRIPT_ROOT}/pkg"
+TMP_DIFFROOT="${SCRIPT_ROOT}/_tmp/pkg"
+_tmp="${SCRIPT_ROOT}/_tmp"
+
+cleanup() {
+  rm -rf "${_tmp}"
+}
+trap "cleanup" EXIT SIGINT
+
+cleanup
+
+mkdir -p "${TMP_DIFFROOT}"
+cp -a "${DIFFROOT}"/* "${TMP_DIFFROOT}"
+
+"${SCRIPT_ROOT}/hack/update-codegen.sh"
+echo "diffing ${DIFFROOT} against freshly generated codegen"
+ret=0
+diff -Naupr "${DIFFROOT}" "${TMP_DIFFROOT}" || ret=$?
+cp -a "${TMP_DIFFROOT}"/* "${DIFFROOT}"
+if [[ $ret -eq 0 ]]
+then
+  echo "${DIFFROOT} up to date."
+else
+  echo "${DIFFROOT} is out of date. Please run hack/update-codegen.sh"
+  exit 1
+fi