From 35c0ce2abb84ec5f4a302372d0ca3eb3d484ea2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Beda Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:03:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Suggest people verify they can start a VM on GCE. --- README.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 11bf9daf45..11a4444883 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ However, initial development was done on GCE and so our instructions and scripts 1. You need a Google Cloud Platform account with billing enabled. Visit [http://cloud.google.com/console](http://cloud.google.com/console) for more details. -2. You must have Go installed: [www.golang.org](http://www.golang.org). -3. Ensure that your `gcloud` components are up-to-date by running `gcloud components update`. -4. Get the Kubernetes source: +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. +3. You must have Go installed: [www.golang.org](http://www.golang.org). +4. Ensure that your `gcloud` components are up-to-date by running `gcloud components update`. +5. Get the Kubernetes source: git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes.git -5. Setting up a cluster requires the `htpasswd` tool in order to hash a randomly generated password for accessing the API server. This is already installed on recent version of Mac OS X but on Linux you need to install it yourself. On Debian/Ubuntu you can do this with: +6. Setting up a cluster requires the `htpasswd` tool in order to hash a randomly generated password for accessing the API server. This is already installed on recent version of Mac OS X but on Linux you need to install it yourself. On Debian/Ubuntu you can do this with: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2-utils