diff --git a/cluster/gce/trusty/configure-helper.sh b/cluster/gce/trusty/configure-helper.sh
index a5ee96a80b1..11d819abfeb 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/trusty/configure-helper.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/trusty/configure-helper.sh
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ create_master_kubelet_auth() {
 # $5: pod name, which should be either etcd or etcd-events
 prepare_etcd_manifest() {
   etcd_temp_file="/tmp/$5"
-  cp /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/etcd.manifest "${etcd_temp_file}"
+  cp /home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/etcd.manifest "${etcd_temp_file}"
   sed -i -e "s@{{ *suffix *}}@$1@g" "${etcd_temp_file}"
   sed -i -e "s@{{ *port *}}@$2@g" "${etcd_temp_file}"
   sed -i -e "s@{{ *server_port *}}@$3@g" "${etcd_temp_file}"
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ start_kube_apiserver() {
   prepare_log_file /var/log/kube-apiserver.log
   # Load the docker image from file.
   echo "Try to load docker image file kube-apiserver.tar"
-  timeout 30 docker load -i /run/kube-docker-files/kube-apiserver.tar
+  timeout 30 docker load -i /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-apiserver.tar
 
   # Calculate variables and assemble the command line.
   params="--cloud-provider=gce --address=127.0.0.1 --etcd-servers=http://127.0.0.1:4001 --tls-cert-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/server.cert --tls-private-key-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/server.key --secure-port=443 --client-ca-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/ca.crt --token-auth-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/known_tokens.csv --basic-auth-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/basic_auth.csv --allow-privileged=true"
@@ -444,9 +444,9 @@ start_kube_apiserver() {
     readonly vm_external_ip=$(curl --fail --silent -H 'Metadata-Flavor: Google' "http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/network-interfaces/0/access-configs/0/external-ip")
     params="${params} --cloud-config=/etc/gce.conf --advertise-address=${vm_external_ip} --ssh-user=${PROXY_SSH_USER} --ssh-keyfile=/etc/srv/sshproxy/.sshkeyfile"
   fi
-  readonly kube_apiserver_docker_tag=$(cat /run/kube-docker-files/kube-apiserver.docker_tag)
+  readonly kube_apiserver_docker_tag=$(cat /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-apiserver.docker_tag)
 
-  src_file="/run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/kube-apiserver.manifest"
+  src_file="/home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/kube-apiserver.manifest"
   remove_salt_config_comments "${src_file}"
   # Evaluate variables
   sed -i -e "s@{{params}}@${params}@g" "${src_file}"
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ start_kube_controller_manager() {
   prepare_log_file /var/log/kube-controller-manager.log
   # Load the docker image from file.
   echo "Try to load docker image file kube-controller-manager.tar"
-  timeout 30 docker load -i /run/kube-docker-files/kube-controller-manager.tar
+  timeout 30 docker load -i /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-controller-manager.tar
 
   # Calculate variables and assemble the command line.
   params="--master=127.0.0.1:8080 --cloud-provider=gce --root-ca-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/ca.crt --service-account-private-key-file=/etc/srv/kubernetes/server.key"
@@ -503,9 +503,9 @@ start_kube_controller_manager() {
   if [ -n "${CONTROLLER_MANAGER_TEST_ARGS:-}" ]; then
     params="${params} ${CONTROLLER_MANAGER_TEST_ARGS}"
   fi
-  readonly kube_rc_docker_tag=$(cat /run/kube-docker-files/kube-controller-manager.docker_tag)
+  readonly kube_rc_docker_tag=$(cat /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-controller-manager.docker_tag)
 
-  src_file="/run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/kube-controller-manager.manifest"
+  src_file="/home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/kube-controller-manager.manifest"
   remove_salt_config_comments "${src_file}"
   # Evaluate variables
   sed -i -e "s@{{srv_kube_path}}@/etc/srv/kubernetes@g" "${src_file}"
@@ -527,9 +527,10 @@ start_kube_controller_manager() {
 #   DOCKER_REGISTRY
 start_kube_scheduler() {
   prepare_log_file /var/log/kube-scheduler.log
+  kube_home="home/kubernetes"
   # Load the docker image from file.
   echo "Try to load docker image file kube-scheduler.tar"
-  timeout 30 docker load -i /run/kube-docker-files/kube-scheduler.tar
+  timeout 30 docker load -i "${kube_home}/kube-docker-files/kube-scheduler.tar"
 
   # Calculate variables and set them in the manifest.
   params=""
@@ -541,10 +542,10 @@ start_kube_scheduler() {
   if [ -n "${SCHEDULER_TEST_ARGS:-}" ]; then
     params="${params} ${SCHEDULER_TEST_ARGS}"
   fi
-  readonly kube_scheduler_docker_tag=$(cat /run/kube-docker-files/kube-scheduler.docker_tag)
+  readonly kube_scheduler_docker_tag=$(cat "${kube_home}/kube-docker-files/kube-scheduler.docker_tag")
 
   # Remove salt comments and replace variables with values
-  src_file="/run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/kube-scheduler.manifest"
+  src_file="${kube_home}/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/kube-scheduler.manifest"
   remove_salt_config_comments "${src_file}"
   sed -i -e "s@{{params}}@${params}@g" "${src_file}"
   sed -i -e "s@{{pillar\['kube_docker_registry'\]}}@${DOCKER_REGISTRY}@g" "${src_file}"
@@ -556,9 +557,9 @@ start_kube_scheduler() {
 start_fluentd() {
   if [ "${ENABLE_NODE_LOGGING:-}" = "true" ]; then
     if [ "${LOGGING_DESTINATION:-}" = "gcp" ]; then
-      cp /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-gcp.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
+      cp /home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-gcp.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
     elif [ "${LOGGING_DESTINATION:-}" = "elasticsearch" ]; then
-      cp /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-es.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
+      cp /home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-es.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
     fi
   fi
 }
@@ -568,7 +569,7 @@ start_fluentd() {
 # $1: addon category under /etc/kubernetes
 # $2: manifest source dir
 setup_addon_manifests() {
-  src_dir="/run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/$2"
+  src_dir="/home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/$2"
   dst_dir="/etc/kubernetes/$1/$2"
   if [ ! -d "${dst_dir}" ]; then
     mkdir -p "${dst_dir}"
@@ -592,7 +593,7 @@ setup_addon_manifests() {
 
 # Prepares the manifests of k8s addons static pods.
 prepare_kube_addons() {
-  addon_src_dir="/run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty"
+  addon_src_dir="/home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty"
   addon_dst_dir="/etc/kubernetes/addons"
   # Set up manifests of other addons.
   if [ "${ENABLE_CLUSTER_MONITORING:-}" = "influxdb" ] || \
diff --git a/cluster/gce/trusty/configure.sh b/cluster/gce/trusty/configure.sh
index a5863f3b762..2329340d9cf 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/trusty/configure.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/trusty/configure.sh
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ download_or_bust() {
 }
 
 # Downloads kubernetes binaries and kube-system manifest tarball, unpacks them,
-# and places them into suitable directories.
+# and places them into suitable directories. Files are placed in /home/kubernetes. 
 install_kube_binary_config() {
   # Upstart does not support shell array well. Put urls in a temp file with one
   # url at a line, and we will use 'read' command to get them one-by-one.
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ install_kube_binary_config() {
   tmp_manifests_urls=$(mktemp /tmp/kube-temp.XXXXXX)
   echo "${KUBE_MANIFESTS_TAR_URL}" | tr "," "\n" > "${tmp_manifests_urls}"
 
-  cd /tmp
+  kube_home="/home/kubernetes"
+  mkdir -p "${kube_home}"
+  cd "${kube_home}"
   read -r server_binary_tar_url < "${tmp_binary_urls}"
   readonly server_binary_tar="${server_binary_tar_url##*/}"
   if [ -n "${SERVER_BINARY_TAR_HASH:-}" ]; then
@@ -102,37 +104,40 @@ install_kube_binary_config() {
   fi
   echo "Downloading binary release tar"
   download_or_bust "${server_binary_tar_hash}" "${tmp_binary_urls}"
-  tar xzf "/tmp/${server_binary_tar}" -C /tmp/ --overwrite
-  # Copy docker_tag and image files to /run/kube-docker-files.
-  mkdir -p /run/kube-docker-files
-  cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/*.docker_tag /run/kube-docker-files/
+  tar xzf "${kube_home}/${server_binary_tar}" -C "${kube_home}" --overwrite
+  # Copy docker_tag and image files to /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files.
+  src_dir="${kube_home}/kubernetes/server/bin"
+  dst_dir="${kube_home}/kube-docker-files"
+  mkdir -p "${dst_dir}"
+  cp "${src_dir}/"*.docker_tag "${dst_dir}"
   if [ "${KUBERNETES_MASTER:-}" = "false" ]; then
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kube-proxy.tar /run/kube-docker-files/
+    cp "${src_dir}/kube-proxy.tar" "${dst_dir}"
   else
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kube-apiserver.tar /run/kube-docker-files/
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kube-controller-manager.tar /run/kube-docker-files/
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kube-scheduler.tar /run/kube-docker-files/
-    cp -r /tmp/kubernetes/addons /run/kube-docker-files/
+    cp "${src_dir}/kube-apiserver.tar" "${dst_dir}"
+    cp "${src_dir}/kube-controller-manager.tar" "${dst_dir}"
+    cp "${src_dir}/kube-scheduler.tar" "${dst_dir}"
+    cp -r "${kube_home}/kubernetes/addons" "${dst_dir}"
   fi
   # Use the binary from the release tarball if they are not preinstalled, or if this is
   # a test cluster.
   readonly BIN_PATH="/usr/bin"
   if ! which kubelet > /dev/null || ! which kubectl > /dev/null; then
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kubelet "${BIN_PATH}"
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kubectl "${BIN_PATH}"
+    cp "${src_dir}/kubelet" "${BIN_PATH}"
+    cp "${src_dir}/kubectl" "${BIN_PATH}"
   elif [ "${TEST_CLUSTER:-}" = "true" ]; then
-    mkdir -p /home/kubernetes/bin
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kubelet /home/kubernetes/bin
-    cp /tmp/kubernetes/server/bin/kubectl /home/kubernetes/bin
-    mount --bind /home/kubernetes/bin/kubelet "${BIN_PATH}/kubelet"
+    kube_bin="${kube_home}/bin"
+    mkdir -p "${kube_bin}"
+    cp "${src_dir}/kubelet" "${kube_bin}"
+    cp "${src_dir}/kubectl" "${kube_bin}"
+    mount --bind "${kube_bin}/kubelet" "${BIN_PATH}/kubelet"
     mount --bind -o remount,ro,^noexec "${BIN_PATH}/kubelet" "${BIN_PATH}/kubelet"
-    mount --bind /home/kubernetes/bin/kubectl "${BIN_PATH}/kubectl"
+    mount --bind "${kube_bin}/kubectl" "${BIN_PATH}/kubectl"
     mount --bind -o remount,ro,^noexec "${BIN_PATH}/kubectl" "${BIN_PATH}/kubectl"
   fi
 
-  # Put kube-system pods manifests in /etc/kube-manifests/.
-  mkdir -p /run/kube-manifests
-  cd /run/kube-manifests
+  # Put kube-system pods manifests in /home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/.
+  dst_dir="${kube_home}/kube-manifests"
+  mkdir -p "${dst_dir}"
   read -r manifests_tar_url < "${tmp_manifests_urls}"
   readonly manifests_tar="${manifests_tar_url##*/}"
   if [ -n "${KUBE_MANIFESTS_TAR_HASH:-}" ]; then
@@ -144,22 +149,22 @@ install_kube_binary_config() {
   fi
   echo "Downloading k8s manifests tar"
   download_or_bust "${manifests_tar_hash}" "${tmp_manifests_urls}"
-  tar xzf "/run/kube-manifests/${manifests_tar}" -C /run/kube-manifests/ --overwrite
+  tar xzf "${kube_home}/${manifests_tar}" -C "${dst_dir}" --overwrite
   readonly kube_addon_registry="${KUBE_ADDON_REGISTRY:-gcr.io/google_containers}"
   if [ "${kube_addon_registry}" != "gcr.io/google_containers" ]; then
-    find /run/kube-manifests -name \*.yaml -or -name \*.yaml.in | \
+    find "${dst_dir}" -name \*.yaml -or -name \*.yaml.in | \
       xargs sed -ri "s@(image:\s.*)gcr.io/google_containers@\1${kube_addon_registry}@"
-    find /run/kube-manifests -name \*.manifest -or -name \*.json | \
+    find "${dst_dir}" -name \*.manifest -or -name \*.json | \
       xargs sed -ri "s@(image\":\s+\")gcr.io/google_containers@\1${kube_addon_registry}@"
   fi
-  cp /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/trusty/configure-helper.sh /etc/kube-configure-helper.sh
+  cp "${dst_dir}/kubernetes/trusty/configure-helper.sh" /etc/kube-configure-helper.sh
 
   # Clean up.
-  rm -rf /tmp/kubernetes
-  rm -f "/tmp/${server_binary_tar}"
-  rm -f "/tmp/${server_binary_tar}.sha1"
-  rm -f "/run/kube-manifests/${manifests_tar}"
-  rm -f "/run/kube-manifests/${manifests_tar}.sha1"
+  rm -rf "${kube_home}/kubernetes"
+  rm -f "${kube_home}/${server_binary_tar}"
+  rm -f "${kube_home}/${server_binary_tar}.sha1"
+  rm -f "${kube_home}/${manifests_tar}"
+  rm -f "${kube_home}/${manifests_tar}.sha1"
   rm -f "${tmp_binary_urls}"
   rm -f "${tmp_manifests_urls}"
 }
diff --git a/cluster/gce/trusty/node.yaml b/cluster/gce/trusty/node.yaml
index 75f0dd71f15..3cba3fa25af 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/trusty/node.yaml
+++ b/cluster/gce/trusty/node.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MIME-Version: 1.0
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/upstart-job; charset="us-ascii"
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
-Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="kube-install-minion.conf"
+Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="kube-install-node.conf"
 
 #upstart-job
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="kube-env.conf"
 
 description "Prepare kube node environment"
 
-start on stopped kube-install-minion
+start on stopped kube-install-node
 
 script
 	set -o errexit
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="kube-install-packages.conf"
 
 description "Install packages needed to run kubernetes"
 
-start on stopped kube-install-minion
+start on stopped kube-install-node
 
 script
 	set -o errexit
@@ -185,12 +185,12 @@ script
 	. /etc/kube-configure-helper.sh
 	. /etc/kube-env
 	prepare_log_file "/var/log/kube-proxy.log"
-	# Load the docker image from file /run/kube-docker-files/kube-proxy.tar.
+	# Load the docker image from file /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-proxy.tar.
 	echo "Try to load docker image file kube-proxy.tar"
-	timeout 30 docker load -i /run/kube-docker-files/kube-proxy.tar
+	timeout 30 docker load -i /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-proxy.tar
 	# Copy the manifest to /tmp to manipulate
 	tmp_file="/tmp/kube-proxy.manifest"
-	cp -f /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/kube-proxy.manifest ${tmp_file}
+	cp -f /home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/kube-proxy.manifest ${tmp_file}
 	# Remove the lines of salt configuration and replace variables with values.
 	# NOTE: Changes to variable names in cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.manifest
 	# may break this upstart job.
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ script
 	if [ -n "${KUBE_DOCKER_REGISTRY:-}" ]; then
 		kube_docker_registry=${KUBE_DOCKER_REGISTRY}
 	fi
-	kube_proxy_docker_tag=$(cat /run/kube-docker-files/kube-proxy.docker_tag)
+	kube_proxy_docker_tag=$(cat /home/kubernetes/kube-docker-files/kube-proxy.docker_tag)
 	test_args=""
 	if [ -n "${KUBEPROXY_TEST_ARGS:-}" ]; then
 		test_args="${KUBEPROXY_TEST_ARGS}"
@@ -237,14 +237,14 @@ script
 	set -o errexit
 	set -o nounset
 
-	# Kube-system pod manifest files are located at /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes.
 	. /etc/kube-configure-helper.sh
 	. /etc/kube-env
 	# Fluentd
 	start_fluentd
 	# Kube-registry-proxy
 	if [ "${ENABLE_CLUSTER_REGISTRY:-}" = "true" ]; then
-		cp /run/kube-manifests/kubernetes/kube-registry-proxy.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
+		cp /home/kubernetes/kube-manifests/kubernetes/kube-registry-proxy.yaml \
+       /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
 	fi
 end script