diff --git a/cluster/config-test.sh b/cluster/config-test.sh
index aceef0482fd..aa0df6e22d7 100755
--- a/cluster/config-test.sh
+++ b/cluster/config-test.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 ZONE=us-central1-b
 MASTER_SIZE=g1-small
 MINION_SIZE=g1-small
-NUM_MINIONS=2
+NUM_MINIONS=3
 # gcloud/gcutil will expand this to the latest supported image.
 IMAGE=backports-debian-7-wheezy
 NETWORK=default
diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..bbfe8cef9bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/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.
+
+# Launches an nginx container and verifies it can be reached. Assumes that
+# we're being called by hack/e2e-test.sh (we use some env vars it sets up).
+
+# Exit on error
+set -e
+
+source "${KUBE_REPO_ROOT}/cluster/util.sh"
+detect-project
+
+# Launch a container
+$CLOUDCFG -p 8080:80 run dockerfile/nginx 2 myNginx
+
+# Container turn up on a clean cluster can take a while for the docker image pull.
+# Sleep for 2 minutes just to be sure.
+echo "Waiting for containers to come up."
+sleep 120
+
+# Get minion IP addresses
+detect-minions
+
+# Verify that something is listening (nginx should give us a 404)
+for (( i=0; i<${#KUBE_MINION_IP_ADDRESSES[@]}; i++)); do
+  IP_ADDRESS=${KUBE_MINION_IP_ADDRESSES[$i]}
+  echo "Trying to reach nginx instance that should be running at ${IP_ADDRESS}:8080..."
+  curl "http://${IP_ADDRESS}:8080"
+done
+
+$CLOUDCFG stop myNginx
+$CLOUDCFG rm myNginx
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/hack/e2e-test.sh b/hack/e2e-test.sh
index 72051a609ec..a46a20a1567 100755
--- a/hack/e2e-test.sh
+++ b/hack/e2e-test.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-# Starts a Kubernetes cluster, verifies it can do basic things, and shuts it
+# Starts a Kubernetes cluster, runs the e2e test suite, and shuts it
 # down.
 
 # Exit on error
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ set -e
 
 # Use testing config
 export KUBE_CONFIG_FILE="config-test.sh"
-source $(dirname $0)/../cluster/util.sh
+export KUBE_REPO_ROOT="$(dirname $0)/.."
+export CLOUDCFG="${KUBE_REPO_ROOT}/cluster/cloudcfg.sh"
+
+source "${KUBE_REPO_ROOT}/cluster/util.sh"
 
 # Build a release
 $(dirname $0)/../release/release.sh
@@ -30,6 +33,21 @@ $(dirname $0)/../release/release.sh
 # Now bring a test cluster up with that release.
 $(dirname $0)/../cluster/kube-up.sh
 
+# Detect the project into $PROJECT if it isn't set
+detect-project
+
+set +e
+
+# Open up port 80 & 8080 so common containers on minions can be reached
+gcutil addfirewall \
+  --norespect_terminal_width \
+  --project ${PROJECT} \
+  --target_tags ${MINION_TAG} \
+  --allowed tcp:80 \
+  --allowed tcp:8080 \
+  --network ${NETWORK} \
+  ${MINION_TAG}-http-alt
+
 # Auto shutdown cluster when we exit
 function shutdown-test-cluster () {
   echo "Shutting down test cluster in background."
@@ -42,33 +60,15 @@ function shutdown-test-cluster () {
 }
 trap shutdown-test-cluster EXIT
 
-# Detect the project into $PROJECT if it isn't set
-detect-project
-
-# Open up port 8080 so nginx containers on minions can be reached
-gcutil addfirewall \
-  --norespect_terminal_width \
-  --project ${PROJECT} \
-  --target_tags ${MINION_TAG} \
-  --allowed tcp:8080 \
-  --network ${NETWORK} \
-  ${MINION_TAG}-http-alt &
-
-# Launch a container
-$(dirname $0)/../cluster/cloudcfg.sh -p 8080:80 run dockerfile/nginx 2 myNginx
-
-# Container turn up on a clean cluster can take a while for the docker image pull.
-# Sleep for 2 minutes just to be sure.
-echo "Waiting for containers to come up."
-sleep 120
-
-# Get minion IP addresses
-detect-minions
-
-# Verify that something is listening (nginx should give us a 404)
-for (( i=0; i<${#KUBE_MINION_IP_ADDRESSES[@]}; i++)); do
-  IP_ADDRESS=${KUBE_MINION_IP_ADDRESSES[$i]}
-  echo "Trying to reach nginx instance that should be running at ${IP_ADDRESS}:8080..."
-  curl "http://${IP_ADDRESS}:8080"
+any_failed=0
+for test_file in "$(dirname $0)/e2e-suite/*.sh"; do
+  $test_file
+  if [[ -z $? ]]; then
+    echo "${test_file}: passed!"
+  else
+    echo "${test_file}: FAILED!"
+    any_failed=1
+  fi
 done
 
+exit ${any_failed}