diff --git a/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/config.go b/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/config.go
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+++ 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
+}
diff --git a/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/generic/storage.go b/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/generic/storage.go
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+++ b/metrics-server/pkg/apiserver/generic/storage.go
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+// 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 generic
+
+import (
+	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer"
+	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/rest"
+	genericapiserver "k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server"
+	coreinf "k8s.io/client-go/informers/core/v1"
+	"k8s.io/metrics/pkg/apis/metrics"
+	"k8s.io/metrics/pkg/apis/metrics/install"
+	"k8s.io/metrics/pkg/apis/metrics/v1beta1"
+
+	"github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server/pkg/provider"
+	nodemetricsstorage "github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server/pkg/storage/nodemetrics"
+	podmetricsstorage "github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server/pkg/storage/podmetrics"
+)
+
+var (
+	// Scheme contains the types needed by the resource metrics API.
+	Scheme = runtime.NewScheme()
+	// Codecs is a codec factory for serving the resource metrics API.
+	Codecs = serializer.NewCodecFactory(Scheme)
+)
+
+func init() {
+	install.Install(Scheme)
+	metav1.AddToGroupVersion(Scheme, schema.GroupVersion{Version: "v1"})
+}
+
+// ProviderConfig holds the providers for node and pod metrics
+// for serving the resource metrics API.
+type ProviderConfig struct {
+	Node provider.NodeMetricsProvider
+	Pod  provider.PodMetricsProvider
+}
+
+// BuildStorage constructs APIGroupInfo the metrics.k8s.io API group using the given providers.
+func BuildStorage(providers *ProviderConfig, informers coreinf.Interface) genericapiserver.APIGroupInfo {
+	apiGroupInfo := genericapiserver.NewDefaultAPIGroupInfo(metrics.GroupName, Scheme, metav1.ParameterCodec, Codecs)
+
+	nodemetricsStorage := nodemetricsstorage.NewStorage(metrics.Resource("nodemetrics"), providers.Node, informers.Nodes().Lister())
+	podmetricsStorage := podmetricsstorage.NewStorage(metrics.Resource("podmetrics"), providers.Pod, informers.Pods().Lister())
+	metricsServerResources := map[string]rest.Storage{
+		"nodes": nodemetricsStorage,
+		"pods":  podmetricsStorage,
+	}
+	apiGroupInfo.VersionedResourcesStorageMap[v1beta1.SchemeGroupVersion.Version] = metricsServerResources
+
+	return apiGroupInfo
+}
+
+// InstallStorage builds the storage for the metrics.k8s.io API, and then installs it into the given API server.
+func InstallStorage(providers *ProviderConfig, informers coreinf.Interface, server *genericapiserver.GenericAPIServer) error {
+	info := BuildStorage(providers, informers)
+	return server.InstallAPIGroup(&info)
+}