diff --git a/cluster/kube-down-azure.sh b/cluster/kube-down-azure.sh
index a9441945487..f4b8a83bd03 100755
--- a/cluster/kube-down-azure.sh
+++ b/cluster/kube-down-azure.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,24 @@
 #!/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.
+
+# Tear down a Kubernetes cluster.
 SCRIPT_DIR=$(CDPATH="" cd $(dirname $0); pwd)
 source $SCRIPT_DIR/../release/config-azure.sh
 source $SCRIPT_DIR/util.sh
 
-
 echo "Bringing down cluster"
 azure vm delete $MASTER_NAME -b -q
 for (( i=0; i<${#MINION_NAMES[@]}; i++)); do
diff --git a/cluster/kube-up-azure.sh b/cluster/kube-up-azure.sh
index 31c4c00593b..d5293306a37 100755
--- a/cluster/kube-up-azure.sh
+++ b/cluster/kube-up-azure.sh
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # Bring up a Kubernetes cluster.
-#
-# If the full release name (gs://<bucket>/<release>) is passed in then we take
-# that directly.  If not then we assume we are doing development stuff and take
-# the defaults in the release config.
 
 # exit on any error
 set -eu
@@ -33,7 +29,8 @@ trap "rm -rf ${KUBE_TEMP}" EXIT
 
 get-password
 echo "Using password: $user:$passwd"
-python $SCRIPT_DIR/../third_party/htpasswd/htpasswd.py -b -c ${KUBE_TEMP}/htpasswd $user $passwd
+python $SCRIPT_DIR/../third_party/htpasswd/htpasswd.py -b -c \
+    ${KUBE_TEMP}/htpasswd $user $passwd
 HTPASSWD=$(cat ${KUBE_TEMP}/htpasswd)
 
 # Build up start up script for master
@@ -51,11 +48,12 @@ echo "Starting VMs"
 if [ ! -f $AZ_SSH_KEY ]; then
     ssh-keygen -f $AZ_SSH_KEY -N ''
 fi
- 
+
 if [ ! -f $AZ_SSH_CERT ]; then
     openssl req -new -key $AZ_SSH_KEY -out ${KUBE_TEMP}/temp.csr \
-	-subj "/C=US/ST=WA/L=Redmond/O=Azure-CLI/CN=Azure"
-    openssl req -x509 -key $AZ_SSH_KEY -in ${KUBE_TEMP}/temp.csr -out $AZ_SSH_CERT -days 1095
+        -subj "/C=US/ST=WA/L=Redmond/O=Azure-CLI/CN=Azure"
+    openssl req -x509 -key $AZ_SSH_KEY -in ${KUBE_TEMP}/temp.csr \
+        -out $AZ_SSH_CERT -days 1095
     rm ${KUBE_TEMP}/temp.csr
 fi
 
@@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ if [ -z "$(azure network vnet show $AZ_VNET 2>/dev/null | grep data)" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-
 azure vm create \
     -w $AZ_VNET \
     -n $MASTER_NAME \
@@ -77,33 +74,29 @@ azure vm create \
     -b $AZ_SUBNET \
     $AZ_CS $AZ_IMAGE $USER
 
-
 ssh_ports=($(eval echo "2200{1..$NUM_MINIONS}"))
 
 for (( i=0; i<${#MINION_NAMES[@]}; i++)); do
     (
-	echo "#!/bin/bash"
-	echo "MASTER_NAME=${MASTER_NAME}"
-	echo "MINION_IP_RANGE=${MINION_IP_RANGES[$i]}"
-	grep -v "^#" $SCRIPT_DIR/templates/salt-minion-azure.sh
+        echo "#!/bin/bash"
+        echo "MASTER_NAME=${MASTER_NAME}"
+        echo "MINION_IP_RANGE=${MINION_IP_RANGES[$i]}"
+        grep -v "^#" $SCRIPT_DIR/templates/salt-minion-azure.sh
     ) > ${KUBE_TEMP}/minion-start-${i}.sh
 
     azure vm create \
-	-c -w $AZ_VNET \
-	-n ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} \
-	-l "$AZ_LOCATION" \
-	-t $AZ_SSH_CERT \
-	-e ${ssh_ports[$i]} -P \
-	-d ${KUBE_TEMP}/minion-start-${i}.sh \
-	-b $AZ_SUBNET \
-	$AZ_CS $AZ_IMAGE $USER
-
+        -c -w $AZ_VNET \
+        -n ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} \
+        -l "$AZ_LOCATION" \
+        -t $AZ_SSH_CERT \
+        -e ${ssh_ports[$i]} -P \
+        -d ${KUBE_TEMP}/minion-start-${i}.sh \
+        -b $AZ_SUBNET \
+        $AZ_CS $AZ_IMAGE $USER
 done
 
 azure vm endpoint create $MASTER_NAME 443
 
-echo "  https://${user}:${passwd}@$AZ_CS.cloudapp.net"
-
 echo "Waiting for cluster initialization."
 echo
 echo "  This will continually check to see if the API for kubernetes is reachable."
@@ -122,7 +115,7 @@ for (( i=0; i<${#MINION_NAMES[@]}; i++)); do
     # Make sure docker is installed
     ssh -i $AZ_SSH_KEY -p ${ssh_ports[$i]} $AZ_CS.cloudapp.net which docker > /dev/null
     if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
-	echo "Docker failed to install on ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} your cluster is unlikely to work correctly"
+        echo "Docker failed to install on ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} your cluster is unlikely to work correctly"
         echo "Please run ./cluster/kube-down.sh and re-create the cluster. (sorry!)"
         exit 1
     fi
@@ -130,7 +123,7 @@ for (( i=0; i<${#MINION_NAMES[@]}; i++)); do
     # Make sure the kubelet is running
     ssh -i $AZ_SSH_KEY -p ${ssh_ports[$i]} $AZ_CS.cloudapp.net /etc/init.d/kubelet status
     if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
-	echo "Kubelet failed to install on ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} your cluster is unlikely to work correctly"
+        echo "Kubelet failed to install on ${MINION_NAMES[$i]} your cluster is unlikely to work correctly"
         echo "Please run ./cluster/kube-down.sh and re-create the cluster. (sorry!)"
         exit 1
     fi
diff --git a/release/config-azure.sh b/release/config-azure.sh
index 7dda68bab53..d6ba204e8e5 100644
--- a/release/config-azure.sh
+++ b/release/config-azure.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# 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.
 
 AZ_LOCATION='West US'
 AZ_SSH_KEY=$HOME/.ssh/azure
@@ -8,11 +21,13 @@ TAG=testing
 
 if [ -z "$(which azure)" ]; then
     echo "Couldn't find azure in PATH"
+    echo "  please install with 'npm install azure-cli'"
     exit 1
 fi
 
 if [ -z "$(azure account list | grep true)" ]; then
     echo "Default azure account not set"
+    echo "  please set with 'azure account set'"
     exit 1
 fi
 
diff --git a/release/release-azure.sh b/release/release-azure.sh
index ef41ac0c46b..722aebe6a34 100755
--- a/release/release-azure.sh
+++ b/release/release-azure.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,28 @@
 #!/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.
+
+# This script will build and release Kubernetes.
+
 set -eu
 set -o pipefail
 IFS=$'\n\t'
 SCRIPT_DIR=$(CDPATH="" cd $(dirname $0); pwd)
 
-function json_val () { 
-    python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print obj'$1''; 
+function json_val () {
+    python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print obj'$1'';
 }
 
 source $SCRIPT_DIR/config-azure.sh
@@ -14,30 +30,30 @@ source $SCRIPT_DIR/../cluster/${KUBE_CONFIG_FILE-"config-default.sh"}
 
 $SCRIPT_DIR/build-release.sh $INSTANCE_PREFIX
 
-if [ -z "$(azure storage account show $STG_ACCOUNT 2>/dev/null | grep data)" ]; then
+if [ -z "$(azure storage account show $STG_ACCOUNT 2>/dev/null | \
+    grep data)" ]; then
     azure storage account create -l "$AZ_LOCATION" $STG_ACCOUNT
 fi
 
-stg_key=$(azure storage account keys list $STG_ACCOUNT --json | json_val '["primaryKey"]')
+stg_key=$(azure storage account keys list $STG_ACCOUNT --json | \
+    json_val '["primaryKey"]')
 
-if [ -z "$(azure storage container show -a $STG_ACCOUNT -k "$stg_key" $CONTAINER 2>/dev/null | grep data)" ]; then
+if [ -z "$(azure storage container show -a $STG_ACCOUNT -k "$stg_key" \
+    $CONTAINER 2>/dev/null | grep data)" ]; then
     azure storage container create \
-	-a $STG_ACCOUNT \
-	-k "$stg_key" \
-	-p Blob \
-	$CONTAINER
+        -a $STG_ACCOUNT \
+        -k "$stg_key" \
+        -p Blob \
+        $CONTAINER
 fi
 
-if [ -n "$(azure storage blob show \
-    -a $STG_ACCOUNT \
-    -k "$stg_key" \
-    $CONTAINER \
-    master-release.tgz 2>/dev/null | grep data)" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(azure storage blob show -a $STG_ACCOUNT -k "$stg_key" \
+    $CONTAINER master-release.tgz 2>/dev/null | grep data)" ]; then
     azure storage blob delete \
-	-a $STG_ACCOUNT \
-	-k "$stg_key" \
-	$CONTAINER \
-	master-release.tgz
+        -a $STG_ACCOUNT \
+        -k "$stg_key" \
+        $CONTAINER \
+        master-release.tgz
 fi
 
 azure storage blob upload \