VTWO-14496 : start machines configuration

README.md

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 # Introduction
 
 This repository is intended for demo-ing the manual install of kubernetes's components on both master and worker nodes.
-It should be able to get you to a working single master kubernetes setup
+It should be able to get you to a working single master kubernetes setup on a set of vagrant boxes
+
+# prerequisites
+- vagrant
+- the scp vagrant plugin : `vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp`
+- [the GNU parallel CLI](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
+
+# setup
+- start the vms
+```sh
+vagrant up
+```
+
+- setup a container runtime
+```sh
+./scripts/run_script_on_all_nodes install_container_runtime
+```
+
+- download kubernetes
+```sh
+./scripts/run_script_on_all_nodes download_node_binaries
+```