diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1d07f51..8dc5801 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # See http://help.github.com/ignore-files/ for more about ignoring files.
 
+# build and test outputs
+bin/
+_output/
+_artifacts/
+junit-report.xml
+
 # IDEs and editors
 **/.idea
 .project
diff --git a/go/Makefile b/go/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b4190f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+# Copyright 2022 Polaris SLO Cloud Project.
+# Based on the Makefile from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/scheduler-plugins
+# created by the Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+COMMONENVVAR=GOOS=$(shell uname -s | tr A-Z a-z) GOARCH=$(subst x86_64,amd64,$(patsubst i%86,386,$(shell uname -m)))
+BUILDENVVAR=CGO_ENABLED=0
+
+PROJECT_VERSION=2.0.0-beta.0
+
+LOCAL_REGISTRY=localhost:5000/polarissloc
+LOCAL_IMAGE=polaris-scheduler:latest
+
+# RELEASE_REGISTRY is the container registry to push
+# into. The default is to push to the staging
+# registry, not production(k8s.gcr.io).
+RELEASE_REGISTRY?=polarissloc
+RELEASE_VERSION?=$(shell date +%Y%m%d%H%M)-v$(PROJECT_VERSION)
+# RELEASE_VERSION?=v$(shell date +%Y%m%d)-$(shell git describe --tags --match "v*")
+RELEASE_IMAGE:=polaris-scheduler:$(RELEASE_VERSION)
+
+# VERSION is the scheduler's version
+#
+# The RELEASE_VERSION variable can have one of two formats:
+# v20201009-v0.18.800-46-g939c1c0 - automated build for a commit(not a tag) and also a local build
+# v20200521-v0.18.800             - automated build for a tag
+VERSION=$(shell echo $(RELEASE_VERSION) | awk -F - '{print $$2}')
+
+DEBUG_CONFIG=bin/config/kubernetes/scheduler.conf
+DEBUG_CONFIG_PATH=$(shell echo "$(shell pwd)/$(DEBUG_CONFIG)" | sed -e "s|\/|\\\/|g" -)
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: build
+
+.PHONY: build
+build: build-scheduler
+
+.PHONY: build-scheduler
+build-scheduler:
+	$(COMMONENVVAR) $(BUILDENVVAR) go build -ldflags '-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitVersion=$(VERSION) -w' -o bin/polaris-scheduler scheduler/main.go
+
+.PHONY: build-scheduler-debug
+build-scheduler-debug: debug-config
+	$(COMMONENVVAR) $(BUILDENVVAR) go build -gcflags="all=-N -l" -ldflags '-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitVersion=$(VERSION)' -o bin/polaris-scheduler scheduler/main.go
+
+.PHONY: local-image
+local-image:
+	docker build -f ./build/scheduler/Dockerfile --build-arg RELEASE_VERSION="$(RELEASE_VERSION)" -t $(LOCAL_REGISTRY)/$(LOCAL_IMAGE) ..
+
+.PHONY: release-image
+release-image:
+	docker build -f ./build/scheduler/Dockerfile --build-arg RELEASE_VERSION="$(RELEASE_VERSION)" -t $(RELEASE_REGISTRY)/$(RELEASE_IMAGE) ..
+
+# .PHONY: debug-config
+# debug-config:
+# 	mkdir -p ./bin
+# 	sed -e "s/kubeconfig:.*/kubeconfig: '$(DEBUG_CONFIG_PATH)'/" manifests/polaris-scheduler/default-polaris-scheduler-config.yaml > bin/default-polaris-scheduler-config.yaml
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	rm -rf ./bin
+	rm -rf ./vendor
diff --git a/go/README.md b/go/README.md
index 869c08b..41e9ba2 100644
--- a/go/README.md
+++ b/go/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# RAINBOW Kubernetes Controllers
+# Polaris Scheduler Workspace Organization
 
-This directory contains RAINBOW's Kubernetes controllers and CRDs written in Go, which can be found in the subfolders of this directory:
+This directory contains the modules that comprise the Polaris Scheduler workspace:
 
-* [orchestrator](./orchestration): All shared CRDs and data structures and the controller for the RAINBOW CRDs.
-* [scheduler](./scheduler): Fog-aware Kubernetes scheduler, based on kube-scheduler.
+* [framework](./framework): The orchestrator-independent Polaris Scheduler framework library that defines the scheduling pipeline and plugin structures.
+* [scheduler](./scheduler): Kubernetes implementation of the Polaris Scheduler.