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@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ The recommended way to install the Kubecost cost model (along with dashboards) i
 
 Compared to building from source, this is faster and includes all necessary dependencies. The Kubecost cost model is also available as a container (kubecost/cost-model) and you can deploy run the Golang code yourself as described in the section below.
 
-## Contributing
-
-We welcome any contributions to the project! 
+## Deploying as a pod
 
 If you want to just run the cost model (w/o dashboards) directly on your cluster, complete the following steps:
 
@@ -41,6 +39,16 @@ To test that the server is running, you can hit http://localhost:9001/costDataMo
 
 Note: the following dependencies mentioned above are required for this installation path.
 
+## Contributing
+
+We welcome any contributions to the project! To test, you'll need to build the cost-model docker container then push it to a kubernetes cluster with a running prometheus.
+
+1. `docker build --rm -f "Dockerfile" -t <repo>/kubecost-cost-model:<tag> .`
+2. Edit the [pulled image](https://github.com/kubecost/cost-model/blob/master/kubernetes/deployment.yaml#L22) in the deployment.yaml to <repo>/kubecost-cost-model:<tag>
+3. Set [this environment variable](https://github.com/kubecost/cost-model/blob/master/kubernetes/deployment.yaml#L30) to the address of your prometheus server
+4. `kubectl create namespace cost-model`
+5. `kubectl apply -f kubernetes/ --namespace cost-model`
+6. `kubectl port-forward --namespace cost-model service/cost-model 9001`
 
 ## Licensing