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+# Quickstart
+
+This is a quickstart guide for getting Cluster API Operator up and running on your Kubernetes cluster.
+
+For more detailed information, please refer to the full documentation.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- [Running Kubernetes cluster](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/user/quick-start#install-andor-configure-a-kubernetes-cluster).
+- [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/) for interacting with the management cluster.
+- [Helm](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/) for installing operator on the cluster (optional).
+
+## Install and configure Cluster API Operator
+
+### Configuring credential for cloud providers
+
+Instead of using environment variables as clusterctl does, Cluster API Operator uses Kubernetes secrets to store credentials for cloud providers. Refer to [provider documentation](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/user/quick-start#initialization-for-common-providers) on which credentials are required.
+
+This example uses AWS provider, but the same approach can be used for other providers.
+
+```bash
+export CREDENTIALS_SECRET_NAME="credentials-secret"
+export CREDENTIALS_SECRET_NAMESPACE="default"
+
+kubectl create secret generic "${CREDENTIALS_SECRET_NAME}" --from-literal=AWS_B64ENCODED_CREDENTIALS="${AWS_B64ENCODED_CREDENTIALS}" --namespace "${CREDENTIALS_SECRET_NAMESPACE}"
+```
+
+### Installing Cluster API Operator
+
+Add helm repository:
+
+```bash
+helm repo add capi-operator https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/cluster-api-operator
+helm repo update
+```
+
+Deploy Cluster API components with docker provider using a single command during operator installation
+
+```bash
+helm install capi-operator capi-operator/cluster-api-operator --create-namespace -n capi-operator-system --set infrastructure=docker --set cert-manager.enabled=true --set configSecret.name=${CREDENTIALS_SECRET_NAME} --set configSecret.namespace=${CREDENTIALS_SECRET_NAMESPACE}  --wait --timeout 90s
+```
+
+Docker provider can be replaced by any provider supported by [clusterctl](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/providers.html?highlight=hetz#infrastructure).
+
+Other options for installing Cluster API Operator are described in [full documentation](README.md#installation).
+ 
+# Example API Usage
+
+Deploy latest version of core Cluster API components:
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha2
+kind: CoreProvider
+metadata:
+  name: cluster-api
+  namespace: capi-system
+
+```
+
+Deploy Cluster API AWS provider with specific version, custom manager options and flags:
+
+```yaml
+---
+apiVersion: operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha2
+kind: InfrastructureProvider
+metadata:
+ name: aws
+ namespace: capa-system
+spec:
+ version: v2.1.4
+ configSecret:
+   name: aws-variables
+ manager:
+   # These top level controller manager flags, supported by all the providers.
+   # These flags come with sensible defaults, thus requiring no or minimal
+   # changes for the most common scenarios.
+   metrics:
+    bindAddress: ":8181"
+   syncPeriod: "500s"
+ fetchConfig:
+   url: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws/releases
+ deployment:
+   containers:
+   - name: manager
+     args:
+      # These are controller flags that are specific to a provider; usage
+      # is reserved for advanced scenarios only.
+      "--awscluster-concurrency": "12"
+      "--awsmachine-concurrency": "11"
+```