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 2. This script leverages the `whereaboutsScaleNAD` and `scaleTestDeployment` yamls in /yamls
 3. To modify the number of pods spun by the script, change the replicas value in the `scaleTestDeployment` yaml
 
+## Running whereabouts e2e locally
 
+1. To run whereabouts e2e locally you need the godotenv package installed
+   run `go install github.com/joho/godotenv/cmd/godotenv@latest`
+   godot env allows you to pass an env file to go test
+2. In the whereabouts dir, run 'make kind' -> this will create a kind cluster running whereabouts
+3. cd to the /e2e dir and create a .env file with this value `KUBECONFIG: $HOME/.kube/config` -> this is where kind writes the kubeconfig by default
+4. run [[ ! -z "$KUBECONFIG" ]] && echo "$KUBECONFIG" || echo "$HOME/.kube/config" to find the location of your kubeconfig 
+5. add KUBECONFIG: <path/to/kubeconfig> to your .env
+6. run godotenv -f <path/to/.env> go test -v . -timeout=1h