diff --git a/projects/demo/etcd/README.md b/projects/demo/etcd/README.md
index 9acd91471..6f6f013b9 100644
--- a/projects/demo/etcd/README.md
+++ b/projects/demo/etcd/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 This directory contains scripts/files to bootstrap a `etcd` cluster both on the local machine as well as on Google Cloud.
 
-An `etcd` cluster can be bootstrapped in different ways (see the [Documentatiob](https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/op-guide/clustering.html) for more details. For the demo we use configuration via static IP addresses. With Infrakit these are managed by assigning `LogicalID`s to cluster members. The `LogicalID` is interpreted as a IP address.
+An `etcd` cluster can be bootstrapped in different ways (see the [Documentation](https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/op-guide/clustering.html) for more details. For the demo we use configuration via static IP addresses. With Infrakit these are managed by assigning `LogicalID`s to cluster members. The `LogicalID` is interpreted as a IP address.
 
 The moby `etcd` package is build with [build-pkg.sh](./build-pkg.sh). It takes the official `etcd` container and adds a [script](./etcd.sh) to start `etcd`. [etcd.sh](./etcd.sh) first attempts to join a new cluster. If that fails it attempts to join an existing cluster. Note, the number and members of the cluster are somewhat hard coded in the script.
 
diff --git a/projects/kubernetes/kube-master.yml b/projects/kubernetes/kube-master.yml
index 967022147..b5fdad989 100644
--- a/projects/kubernetes/kube-master.yml
+++ b/projects/kubernetes/kube-master.yml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ daemon:
      - /var/log:/var/log #/var/log/containers
      - /etc/kubernetes:/etc/kubernetes
 files:
-  - path: etc/kubernetes/.empty
-    contents: '# workaround to create parent directory'
+  - path: etc/kubernetes/
+    directory: true
 outputs:
   - format: kernel+initrd