+Preparing the demo machines

diff --git a/shelr/README.md b/shelr/README.md
index 90045d4..30b9354 100644 (file)
--- a/shelr/README.md
+++ b/shelr/README.md
@@ -81,4 +81,16 @@ Resetting demo machines
 
 * NOTE: you need to wait maybe 5 minutes for the nodes to be restarted
 
+Preparing the demo machines
+---------------------------
+
+* make sure you can properly login to the machines with you ssh-key. use ssh-agent for it:
+
+
+    eval `ssh-agent` && ssh-add
+
+* to speed up initialization + deployment, login to the servers and:
+
+
+     apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade