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+# Getting Started with Cloud Provider OpenStack Development
+
+This guide will help you get started with building a development environment for you 
+to build and run a single node Kubernetes cluster with the OpenStack Cloud Provider
+enabled.
+
+## Contents
+
+* [Contents](#contents)
+ * [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
+   + [OpenStack Cloud](#openstack-cloud)
+   + [Docker](#docker)
+   + [Development tools](#development-tools)
+ * [Development](#development)
+   + [Getting and Building Cloud Provider OpenStack](#getting-and-building-cloud-provider-openstack)
+   + [Getting and Building Kubernetes](#getting-and-building-kubernetes)
+   + [Running the Cloud Provider in MiniKube](#running-the-cloud-provider-in-minikube)
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+To get started, you will need to set up your development environment.
+
+### OpenStack Cloud
+You will need access to an OpenStack cloud, either public or private. You can sign up
+for a public OpenStack Cloud through the [OpenStack Passport](https://www.openstack.org/passport)
+program, or you can install a small private development cloud with
+[DevStack](https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/) or
+[Getting Started With OpenStack](https://github.com/hogepodge/getting-started-with-openstack).
+
+Once you have obtained access to an OpenStack cloud, you will need to start a development
+VM. The rest of this guide assumes a CentOS 7 cloud image, but should be easily transferrable
+to whatever development environment you prefer. You will need to have your cloud credentials
+loaded into your environment. For example, I use this `openrc` file:
+
+```
+export OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME=Default
+export OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME=Default
+export OS_DOMAIN_ID=<domain_id_that_matches_name>
+export OS_PROJECT_NAME=<project_name>
+export OS_TENANT_NAME=<project_name>
+export OS_TENANT_ID=<project_id_that_matches_name>
+export OS_USERNAME=<username>
+export OS_PASSWORD=<password>
+export OS_AUTH_URL=http://<openstack_keystone_endpoint>/v3
+export OS_INTERFACE=public
+export OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION=3
+export OS_REGION_NAME=<region_name>
+```
+
+The specific values you use will vary based on your particular environment. You may
+notice that several values are aliases of one another. This is in part because the
+values expected by the OpenStack client and
+[Gopher Cloud](https://github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud) are slightly different,
+especially with respect to the change from using `tenant` to `project`. One of our
+development goals is to make this setup easier and more consistent.
+
+### Docker
+
+Your cloud instance will need to have Docker installed. If you're ok with working from the latest
+release, it's simple enough to call the Get Docker script:
+
+```
+curl -sSL https://get.docker.io | bash
+```
+
+If you don't want to pipe a random script from the internet into your environment, you can
+install the latest version of Docker with this script.
+
+```
+sudo yum update -y
+sudo yum install -y -q epel-release yum-utils
+sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
+sudo yum-config-manager --enable docker-ce-edge
+sudo yum install -y -q docker-ce
+```
+
+However, the Kubernetes community still recommends that you run Docker v1.12. To install that version
+by hand you can use the following script.
+
+```
+sudo yum -y update
+sudo yum -y -q install yum-utils
+sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7
+sudo yum -y --nogpgcheck install docker-engine-1.12.6-1.el7.centos.x86_64
+```
+
+You'll want to set up Docker to use the same cgroup driver as Kubernetes
+
+```
+sed -i '/^ExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/dockerd$/ s/$/ --exec-opt native.cgroupdriver=systemd/' \
+       /usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service
+```
+
+You may want to configure your environment to allow you to control Docker without sudo:
+
+```
+user="$(id -un 2\>/dev/null || true)"
+sudo usermod -aG docker centos
+```
+
+Regardless of how you install, enable start the service:
+
+```
+sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+sudo systemctl enable docker
+sudo systemctl start docker
+```
+
+### Development tools
+
+You're going to need a few basic development tools and applications to get, build, and run
+the source code. With your package manager you can install `git`, `gcc`, `glide`, and `etcd`.
+
+```
+sudo yum install -y -q git gcc glide etcd
+```
+
+You will also need a recent version of Go and set your environment variables.
+
+```
+GO_VERSION=1.10
+GO_ARCH=linux-amd64
+curl -o go.tgz https://dl.google.com/go/go${GO_VERSION}.${GO_ARCH}.tar.gz
+sudo tar -C /usr/local/ -xvzf go.tgz
+export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
+export GOPATH=$HOME/go
+```
+
+Finally, set up your Git identity and GitHub integrations.
+
+More comprehensive setup instructions are available in the 
+[Development Guide](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/development.md#building-kubernetes-on-a-local-osshell-environment)
+in the Kubernetes repository. When in doubt, check there for additional setup
+and versioning information.
+
+## Development
+
+### Getting and Building Cloud Provider OpenStack
+
+Following the [GitHub Workflow](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/guide/github-workflow.md)
+guidlines for Kubernetes development, set up your environment and get the latest development repository. Begin
+by forking both the Kubernetes and Cloud-Provider-OpenStack projects into your GitHub into your local
+workspace (or bringing your current fork up to date with the current state of both repositories).
+
+Set up some environment variables to help download the repositories
+
+```
+export GOPATH=$HOME/go
+export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
+export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
+export user={your github profile name}
+export working_dir=$GOPATH/src/k8s.io
+```
+
+With your environment variables set up, clone the forks into your go environment.
+
+```
+mkdir -p $working_dir
+cd $working_dir
+git clone https://github.com/{user}/cloud-provider-openstack
+cd cloud-provider-openstack
+```
+
+If you want to build the provider:
+
+```
+make
+```
+
+If you want to run unit tests:
+
+```
+make test
+```
+
+### Getting and Building Kubernetes
+
+To get and build Kubernetes
+
+```
+cd $working_dir
+export KUBE_FASTBUILD=true
+git clone https://github.com/{user}/kubernetes
+cd kubernetes
+make cross
+```
+
+### Running the Cloud Provider in MiniKube
+
+To run the OpenStack provider, integrated with your cloud, be sure to have sourced the
+environment variables. You will also need to create an `/etc/kubernetes/cloud-config` file
+with the minimum options:
+
+```
+[Global]
+username=<username>
+password=<password>
+auth-url=http://<auth_endpoint>/v3
+tenant-id=<project_id>
+domain-id=<domain_id>
+```
+
+Start your cluster with the `hack/local-up-cluster.sh` with the proper environment variable set to
+enable the external cloud provider:
+
+```
+export EXTERNAL_CLOUD_PROVIDER_BINARY=$GOPATH/src/k8s.io/cloud-provider-openstack/openstack-cloud-controller-manager
+export EXTERNAL_CLOUD_PROVIDER=true
+export CLOUD_PROVIDER=openstack
+export CLOUD_CONFIG=/etc/kubernetes/cloud-config
+./hack/local-up-cluster.sh
+```
+
+After giving the cluster time to build and start, you can access it through the directions
+provided by the script:
+
+```
+export KUBECONFIG=/var/run/kubernetes/admin.kubeconfig
+./cluster/kubectl.sh
+```
+
+Have a good time with OpenStack and Kubernetes!