diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e4f3e7157e7..dc4965642a2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -51,3 +51,19 @@ clean:
 	rm -rf $(OUT_DIR)
 	rm -rf $(GODEPS_PKG_DIR)
 .PHONY: clean
+
+# Run 'go vet'.
+#
+# Args:
+#   WHAT: Directory names to vet.  All *.go files under these
+#     directories will be vetted.  If not specified, "everything" will be
+#     vetted.
+#   TESTS: Same as WHAT.
+#   GOFLAGS: Extra flags to pass to 'go' when building.
+#
+# Example:
+#   make vet
+#   make vet WHAT=pkg/kubelet
+vet:
+	hack/vet-go.sh $(WHAT) $(TESTS)
+.PHONY: vet
diff --git a/hack/vet-go.sh b/hack/vet-go.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..334ce11754f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/vet-go.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+
+# Set the environment variables required by the build.
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/config-go.sh"
+
+# Go to the top of the tree.
+cd "${KUBE_REPO_ROOT}"
+
+# Check for `go` binary and set ${GOPATH}.
+kube::setup_go_environment
+
+# Use eval to preserve embedded quoted strings.
+eval "goflags=(${GOFLAGS:-})"
+
+# Filter out arguments that start with "-" and move them to goflags.
+targets=()
+for arg; do
+  if [[ "${arg}" == -* ]]; then
+    goflags+=("${arg}")
+  else
+    targets+=("${arg}")
+  fi
+done
+
+if [[ "${targets[@]+set}" != "set" ]]; then
+  targets=("...")
+fi
+
+rc=0
+# Filter silly "exit status 1" lines and send main output to stdout.
+# This is tricky - pipefail means any non-zero exit in a pipeline is reported,
+# and errexit exits on error.  Turning that into an || expression blocks the
+# errexit.  But $? is still not useful because grep will return an error when it
+# receives no input, which is exactly what go vet produces on success.  In short,
+# if go vet fails (produces output), grep will succeed, but if go vet succeeds
+# (produces no output) grep will fail.  Then we just look at PIPESTATUS[0] which
+# is go's exit code.
+go vet "${goflags[@]:+${goflags[@]}}" "${targets[@]/#/./}" 2>&1 \
+    | grep -v "^exit status " \
+    || rc=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+exit "${rc}"