diff --git a/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/config.go b/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/config.go
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+// Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+//
+// 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.
+
+package apiserver
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	openapinamer "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/openapi"
+	genericapiserver "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/informers"
+
+	"github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/generic"
+	generatedopenapi "github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server/pkg/generated/openapi"
+	"github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server/pkg/version"
+)
+
+// Config contains configuration for launching an instance of metrics-server.
+type Config struct {
+	GenericConfig  *genericapiserver.Config
+	ProviderConfig generic.ProviderConfig
+}
+
+type completedConfig struct {
+	genericapiserver.CompletedConfig
+	ProviderConfig *generic.ProviderConfig
+}
+
+// Complete fills in any fields not set that are required to have valid data. It's mutating the receiver.
+func (c *Config) Complete(informers informers.SharedInformerFactory) completedConfig {
+	c.GenericConfig.Version = version.VersionInfo()
+
+	// enable OpenAPI schemas
+	c.GenericConfig.OpenAPIConfig = genericapiserver.DefaultOpenAPIConfig(generatedopenapi.GetOpenAPIDefinitions, openapinamer.NewDefinitionNamer(generic.Scheme))
+	c.GenericConfig.OpenAPIConfig.Info.Title = "Kubernetes metrics-server"
+	c.GenericConfig.OpenAPIConfig.Info.Version = strings.Split(c.GenericConfig.Version.String(), "-")[0] // TODO(directxman12): remove this once autosetting this doesn't require security definitions
+	c.GenericConfig.SwaggerConfig = genericapiserver.DefaultSwaggerConfig()
+
+	return completedConfig{
+		CompletedConfig: c.GenericConfig.Complete(informers),
+		ProviderConfig:  &c.ProviderConfig,
+	}
+}
+
+type MetricsServer struct {
+	*genericapiserver.GenericAPIServer
+}
+
+// New returns a new instance of MetricsServer from the given config.
+func (c completedConfig) New() (*MetricsServer, error) {
+	genericServer, err := c.CompletedConfig.New("metrics-server", genericapiserver.NewEmptyDelegate()) // completion is done in Complete, no need for a second time
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if err := generic.InstallStorage(c.ProviderConfig, c.SharedInformerFactory.Core().V1(), genericServer); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return &MetricsServer{
+		GenericAPIServer: genericServer,
+	}, nil
+}