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 # Node feature discovery for [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io)
 
+- [Overview](#overview)
+- [License](#license)
+
+## Overview
+
+This software enables node feature discovery for Kubernetes. It detects
+hardware features available on each node in a Kubernetes cluster, and advertises
+those features using node labels.
+
+### Feature sources
+
+- [CPUID][cpuid] for x86 CPU details
+- [Intel Resource Director Technology][intel-rdt]
+- [Intel P-State driver][intel-pstate]
+
+### Feature labels
+
+The published node labels encode a few pieces of information:
+
+- A "namespace" to denote the vendor/provider (e.g. `node.alpha.intel.com`).
+- The version of this discovery code that wrote the label, according to
+  `git describe --tags --dirty --always`.
+- The source for each label (e.g. `cpuid`).
+- The name of the discovered feature as it appears in the underlying
+  source, (e.g. `AESNI` from cpuid).
+
+_Note: only features that are available on a given node are labeled, so
+the only label value published for features is the string `"true"`._
+
+```json
+{
+  "node.alpha.intel.com/dbi-iafeature-discovery.version": "v0.1.0",
+  "node.alpha.intel.com/v0.1.0-cpuid-<feature-name>": "true",
+  "node.alpha.intel.com/v0.1.0-rdt-<feature-name>": "true",
+  "node.alpha.intel.com/v0.1.0-pstate-<feature-name>": "true"
+}
+```
+
 ## License
 
 This is open source software released under the [Apache 2.0 License](LICENSE).
+
+<!-- Links -->
+[cpuid]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/cpuid.4.html
+[intel-rdt]: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/resource-director-technology.html
+[intel-pstate]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt