diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/ncservice.md b/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/ncservice.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..769c551
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/markdown/ncservice.md
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+<!--
+ ! Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ ! or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ ! distributed with this work for additional information
+ ! regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ ! to you 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.
+ !-->
+
+# Starting a small cluster using the NCService
+
+When running a cluster using the `NCService` there are 3 different kind of
+processes involved:
+
+1. `NCDriver` does the work of a NodeController
+2. `NCService` configures and starts an `NCDriver`
+3. `CCDriver` does the work of a ClusterController and sends the
+    configuration to the `NCServices`
+
+To start a small cluster consisting of 2 NodeControllers (`red` and `blue`)
+and 1 ClusterController (`cc`) on a single machine only 2 configuration
+files are required.
+The first one is
+
+`blue.conf`:
+
+    [ncservice]
+    port=9091
+
+It is a configuration file for the second `NCService`.
+This contains only the port that the `NCService` of the second
+NodeControllers listens to as it is non-standard.
+The first `NCService` does not need a configuration file, as it only uses
+default parameters.
+In a distributed environment with 1 NodeController per machine, no
+`NCService` needs a configuration file.
+
+The second configuration file is
+
+`cc.conf`:
+
+    [nc/red]
+    txnlogdir=/tmp/asterix/red/txnlog
+    coredumpdir=/tmp/asterix/red/coredump
+    iodevices=/tmp/asterix/red
+
+    [nc/blue]
+    port=9091
+    txnlogdir=/tmp/asterix/blue/txnlog
+    coredumpdir=/tmp/asterix/blue/coredump
+    iodevices=/tmp/asterix/blue
+
+    [nc]
+    app.class=org.apache.asterix.hyracks.bootstrap.NCApplicationEntryPoint
+    storagedir=storage
+    address=127.0.0.1
+    command=asterixnc
+
+    [cc]
+    cluster.address = 127.0.0.1
+    http.port = 12345
+
+This is the configuration file for the cluster and it contains information
+that each `NCService` will use when starting the corresponding `NCDriver` as
+well as information for the `CCDriver`.
+
+To start the cluster simply use the following steps
+
+1. Set BASEDIR to location of an unzipped asterix-server binary assembly (in
+the source tree that's at `asterixdb/asterix-server/target`).
+
+        $ export BASEDIR=[..]/asterix-server-0.8.9-SNAPSHOT-binary-assembly
+
+2. Start the 2 `NCServices` for `red` and `blue`.
+
+        $ $BASEDIR/bin/asterixncservice -config-file blue.conf > blue-service.log 2>&1 &
+        $ $BASEDIR/bin/asterixncservice >red-service.log 2>&1 &
+
+3. Start the `CCDriver`.
+
+        $ $BASEDIR/bin/asterixcc -config-file cc.conf > cc.log 2>&1 &
+
+The `CCDriver` will connect to the `NCServices` and thus initiate the
+configuration and the start of the `NCDrivers`.
+After running these scripts, `jps` should show a result similar to this:
+
+    $ jps
+    13184 NCService
+    13200 NCDriver
+    13185 NCService
+    13186 CCDriver
+    13533 Jps
+    13198 NCDriver
+
+The logs for the `NCDrivers` will be in `$BASEDIR/logs`.
+
+To stop the cluster again simply run
+
+    $ kill `jps | egrep '(CDriver|NCService)' | awk '{print $1}'`
+
+to kill all processes.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml b/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml
index 4dadc09..9d5ce6e 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-doc/src/site/site.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
     </links>
 
     <menu name="Installation">
+      <item name="Starting a small cluster using the NCService" href="ncservice.html"/>
       <item name="Installing and Managing AsterixDB using Managix" href="install.html"/>
       <item name="Deploying AsterixDB using YARN" href="yarn.html"/>
     </menu>