diff --git a/examples/container_migration_in_kubernetes/README.md b/examples/container_migration_in_kubernetes/README.md
index e2ba72c..2b53110 100644
--- a/examples/container_migration_in_kubernetes/README.md
+++ b/examples/container_migration_in_kubernetes/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ checkpointing feature in Kubernetes, please refer to the following pages:
 
 ## Running the example
 
-1. Install CNI Plugins on each node
+### 1. Install CNI Plugins on each node
 
 The CNI configuration file is expected to be present as `/etc/cni/net.d/10-kuberouter.conf`
 ```
@@ -35,24 +35,24 @@ sudo mkdir -p /opt/cni/bin
 sudo cp bin/* /opt/cni/bin/
 ```
 
-2. Deploy daemonset
+### 2. Initialize the Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm (optional):
 ```
-kubectl apply -f manifests/kube-router-daemonset.yaml
+sudo kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.85.0.0/16 --cri-socket=unix:///var/run/crio/crio.sock
 ```
 
-3. Setup a local container registry
-
+### 3. Untaint the master node to allow pods to be scheduled (optional, assuming a single node cluster):
+```
+kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/master-
+kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane-
 ```
-cd local-registry/
-./generate-password.sh <user>
-./generate-certificates.sh <hostname>
-./trust-certificates.sh
-./run.sh
 
-buildah login <hostname>:5000
+
+### 4. Deploy daemonset
+```
+kubectl apply -f manifests/kube-router-daemonset.yaml
 ```
 
-3. Deploy an HTTP server
+### 5. Deploy an HTTP server
 
 ```
 kubectl apply -f manifests/http-server-deployment.yaml
@@ -65,25 +65,42 @@ kubectl get deployments
 kubectl get service http-server
 ```
 
-4. Install kubectl checkpoint plugin
+### 6. Apply the RBAC configuration to allow the checkpoint plugin to create a checkpoint (optional if your config already allows this):
+```
+kubectl apply -f manifests/checkpoint-rbac.yaml
+```
+
+### 7. Setup a local container registry (optional, you can use any other registry)
+
+```
+cd local-registry/
+./generate-password.sh <user>
+./generate-certificates.sh <hostname>
+./trust-certificates.sh
+./run.sh
+
+buildah login <hostname>:5000
+```
+
+### 8. Install the kubectl checkpoint plugin
 
 ```
 sudo cp kubectl-plugin/kubectl-checkpoint /usr/local/bin/
 ```
 
-5. Enable checkpoint/restore with established TCP connections
+### 9. Enable checkpoint/restore with established TCP connections
 ```
 sudo mkdir -p /etc/criu/
 echo "tcp-established" | sudo tee -a /etc/criu/runc.conf
 ```
 
-6. Create container checkpoint
+### 10. Create container checkpoint
 
 ```
 kubectl checkpoint <pod> <container>
 ```
 
-7. Build a checkpoint OCI image and push to registry
+### 11. Build a checkpoint OCI image and push to registry
 
 ```
 build-image/build-image.sh -a <annotations-file> -c <checkpoint-path> -i <hostname>:5000/<image>:<tag>
@@ -91,7 +108,7 @@ build-image/build-image.sh -a <annotations-file> -c <checkpoint-path> -i <hostna
 buildah push <hostname>:5000/<image>:<tag>
 ```
 
-7. Restore container from checkpoint image
+### 12. Restore container from checkpoint image
 
 Replace the container `image` filed in `http-server-deployment.yaml` with the
 checkpoint OCI image `<hostname>:5000/<image>:<tag>` and apply the new deployment.