diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh
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+#!/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 a 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).
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../..
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/$KUBERNETES_PROVIDER/util.sh"
+
+function teardown() {
+  echo "Cleaning up test artifacts"
+  $KUBECFG stop my-hostname
+  $KUBECFG rm my-hostname
+}
+
+trap "teardown" EXIT
+
+# Determine which pod image to launch (e.g. private.sh launches a different one).
+pod_img_srv="${POD_IMG_SRV:-kubernetes/serve_hostname}"
+
+# Launch some pods.
+num_pods=2
+$KUBECFG -p 8080:9376 run "${pod_img_srv}" ${num_pods} my-hostname
+
+# List the pods.
+pod_id_list=$($KUBECFG '-template={{range.items}}{{.id}} {{end}}' -l name=my-hostname list pods)
+echo "pod_id_list: ${pod_id_list}"
+if [[ -z "${pod_id_list:-}" ]]; then
+  echo "Pod ID list is empty. It should have a set of pods to verify."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Pod turn up on a clean cluster can take a while for the docker image pull.
+all_running=0
+for i in $(seq 1 24); do
+  echo "Waiting for pods to come up."
+  sleep 5
+  all_running=1
+  for id in $pod_id_list; do
+    current_status=$($KUBECFG '-template={{.currentState.status}}' get pods/$id) || true
+    if [[ "$current_status" != "Running" ]]; then
+      all_running=0
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+  if [[ "${all_running}" == 1 ]]; then
+    break
+  fi
+done
+if [[ "${all_running}" == 0 ]]; then
+  echo "Pods did not come up in time"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# let images stabilize
+echo "Letting images stabilize"
+sleep 5
+
+# Verify that something is listening.
+for id in ${pod_id_list}; do
+  ip=$($KUBECFG '-template={{.currentState.hostIP}}' get pods/$id)
+  echo "Trying to reach server that should be running at ${ip}:8080..."
+  server_running=0
+  for i in $(seq 1 5); do
+    echo "--- trial ${i}"
+    output=$(curl -s -connect-timeout 1 "http://${ip}:8080" || true)
+    if echo $output | grep "${id}" &> /dev/null; then
+      server_running=1
+      break
+    fi
+    sleep 2
+  done
+  if [[ "${server_running}" -ne 1 ]]; then
+    echo "Server never running at ${ip}:8080..."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+done
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/private.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/private.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Launches a container and verifies it can be reached. Assumes that
+# we're being called by hack/e2e-test.sh (we use some env vars it sets up).
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../..
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/$KUBERNETES_PROVIDER/util.sh"
+
+# Private image works only on GCE and GKE.
+if [[ "${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" != "gce" ]] && [[ "${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" != "gke" ]]; then
+  echo "WARNING: Skipping private.sh for cloud provider: ${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# Run the basic.sh test, but using this image.
+export POD_IMG_SRV="container.cloud.google.com/_b_k8s_test/serve_hostname"
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/e2e-suite/basic.sh"