diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f89c8a358862..cd43e4320113 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 vendor/*
-!vendor/vendor.json
 .idea
 *.iml
 tools/openapispec/openapispec
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7259c6561194..ed1d06be2dd8 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,23 +16,16 @@ env:
 
 install:
  - git reset --hard
- - ./hack/dockerized make sync
+ - make sync
 
 script:
-- ./hack/dockerized make fmt fmt-bash
-- if git diff --name-only | grep '.*.go'; then echo "It seems like you did not run
-  `make fmt fmt-bash`. Please run it and commit the changes"; false; fi
-- ./hack/dockerized make generate fmt
-- if git diff --name-only | grep 'generated.*.go'; then echo "Content of generated
-  files changed. Please regenerate and commit them."; false; fi
-- if git diff --name-only | grep 'swagger.json' ; then echo "Content of generated
-  files changed. Please regenerate and commit them." ; false ; fi
+- make generate
+- if [[ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]] ; then echo "It seems like you need to run
+  `make generate`. Please run it and commit the changes"; false; fi
 - if diff <(git grep -c '') <(git grep -cI '') | egrep -v 'docs/.*\.png|swagger-ui'
   | grep '^<'; then echo "Binary files are present in git repostory."; false; fi
-- ./hack/dockerized make check
-- ./hack/dockerized make build
-- if [[ $TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG == "kubevirt/kubevirt" ]]; then ./hack/dockerized make goveralls TRAVIS_JOB_ID=${TRAVIS_JOB_ID} TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST=${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST} TRAVIS_BRANCH=${TRAVIS_BRANCH}; else ./hack/dockerized make test; fi
-- ./hack/dockerized make apidocs
+- if [[ $TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG == "kubevirt/kubevirt" ]]; then make goveralls TRAVIS_JOB_ID=${TRAVIS_JOB_ID} TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST=${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST} TRAVIS_BRANCH=${TRAVIS_BRANCH}; else make test; fi
+- make apidocs
 - make manifests DOCKER_TAG=$TRAVIS_TAG # falls back to latest if not on a tag
 
 cache:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1a92fc447326..19cc5ff53687 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,88 +1,47 @@
 export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT := 1
 
-UNAME := $(shell uname)
-ifeq ($(UNAME), Darwin)
-    HASH := md5
-else
-    HASH := md5sum
-endif
-
 all: build manifests
 
-generate: sync
-	find pkg/ -name "*generated*.go" -exec rm {} -f \;
-	./hack/build-go.sh generate ${WHAT}
-	goimports -w -local kubevirt.io cmd/ pkg/ tests/
-	./hack/bootstrap-ginkgo.sh
-	(cd tools/openapispec/ && go build)
-	tools/openapispec/openapispec --dump-api-spec-path api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
+generate:
+	hack/dockerized "hack/glide-checksync.sh && ./hack/generate.sh"
 
-apidocs: generate
-	./hack/gen-swagger-doc/gen-swagger-docs.sh v1 html
+apidocs:
+	hack/dockerized "hack/glide-checksync.sh && ./hack/generate.sh && ./hack/gen-swagger-doc/gen-swagger-docs.sh v1 html"
 
-build: checksync fmt vet compile
+build:
+	hack/dockerized "hack/glide-checksync.sh && ./hack/check.sh && ./hack/build-go.sh install ${WHAT}"
 
 goveralls:
-	./hack/goveralls.sh
-
-compile:
-	./hack/build-go.sh install ${WHAT}
-
-vet:
-	./hack/build-go.sh vet ${WHAT}
-
-fmt:
-	goimports -w -local kubevirt.io cmd/ pkg/ tests/
+	hack/dockerized "hack/glide-checksync.sh && ./hack/check.sh && ./hack/build-go.sh install && ./hack/goveralls.sh"
 
-fmt-bash:
-	shfmt -i 4 -w cluster/ hack/ images/
-
-test: build
-	./hack/build-go.sh test ${WHAT}
+test:
+	hack/dockerized "hack/glide-checksync.sh && ./hack/check.sh && ./hack/build-go.sh install ${WHAT} && ./hack/build-go.sh test ${WHAT}"
 
 functest:
-	./hack/functests.sh
+	hack/functests.sh
 
 clean:
-	./hack/build-go.sh clean ${WHAT}
-	rm _out/ -rf
+	hack/dockerized "./hack/build-go.sh clean ${WHAT} && rm _out/* -rf && rm tools/openapispec/openapispec -rf"
 	rm tools/openapispec/openapispec -rf
 
 distclean: clean
+	hack/dockerized "rm -rf vendor/ && rm -f .glide.*.hash && glide cc"
 	rm -rf vendor/
-	rm -f .glide.*.hash
-	glide cc
 
 checksync:
-	@test -f .glide.yaml.hash || ${HASH} glide.yaml > .glide.yaml.hash
-	@if [ "`${HASH} glide.yaml`" != "`cat .glide.yaml.hash`" ]; then \
-		glide cc; \
-		glide update --strip-vendor; \
-		${HASH} glide.yaml > .glide.yaml.hash; \
-		${HASH} glide.lock > .glide.lock.hash; \
-	elif [ "`${HASH} glide.lock`" != "`cat .glide.lock.hash`" ]; then \
- 		make sync; \
- 	fi
+	hack/dockerized	hack/glide-checksync.sh
  
 sync:
-	glide install --strip-vendor
-	${HASH} glide.lock > .glide.lock.hash
+	hack/dockerized "glide install --strip-vendor && md5sum glide.lock > .glide.lock.hash"
 
-docker:
-	hack/dockerized make build
-	./hack/build-docker.sh build ${WHAT}
+docker: build
+	hack/build-docker.sh build ${WHAT}
 
 publish: docker
-	./hack/build-docker.sh push ${WHAT}
+	hack/build-docker.sh push ${WHAT}
 
 manifests:
-	./hack/build-manifests.sh
-
-check: check-bash vet
-	test -z "`./hack/build-go.sh fmt`"
-
-check-bash:
-	find . -name \*.sh -exec bash -n \{\} \;
+	hack/dockerized ./hack/build-manifests.sh
 
 .release-functest:
 	make functest > .release-functest 2>&1
@@ -104,4 +63,4 @@ cluster-deploy:
 
 cluster-sync: cluster-build cluster-deploy
 
-.PHONY: build fmt test clean distclean checksync sync docker manifests vet publish functest release-announce fmt-bash cluster-up cluster-down cluster-deploy cluster-sync
+.PHONY: build test clean distclean checksync sync docker manifests publish functest release-announce cluster-up cluster-down cluster-deploy cluster-sync
diff --git a/docs/getting-started.md b/docs/getting-started.md
index 88adf3aee808..8d4643a79da6 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started.md
@@ -8,46 +8,8 @@ A quick start guide to get KubeVirt up and running inside Vagrant.
 
 ## Building
 
-### Dockerized building and code generating
-
-All go-related make targets can be invoked in an included container. To build
-the project within the builder-container, run
-
-```bash
-./hack/dockerized make fmt fmt-bash build
-```
-
-To generate code, run
-
-```bash
-./hack/dockerized make generate
-```
-
-If you want to build KubeVirt without docker, read on.
-
-### Go (1.8 or higher)
-
-[Go](https://golang.org) needs to be setup to be able to compile the sources.
-
-**Note:** Go is pretty picky about paths, thus use the suggested ones.
-
-```bash
-    # If you haven't set it already, set a GOPATH
-    echo "export GOPATH=~/go" >> ~/.bashrc
-    echo "export PATH=\$GOPATH/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
-    source ~/.bashrc
-
-    mkdir -p ~/go
-
-    sudo dnf install golang
-    sudo dnf install mercurial
-```
-
-**Note:** Some code within k8s.io/client-go and k8s.io/apimachinery uses
-features from the Go standard libaries introduced in version 1.8.
-
-If needed, a helpful tool to dynamically manage multiple versions of Go is
-[gimme](https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme)
+The KubeVirt build system runs completely inside docker. In order to build
+KubeVirt you need to have `docker` and `rsync` installed.
 
 ### Vagrant
 
@@ -75,36 +37,9 @@ On CentOS/RHEL 7 you might also need to change the libvirt connection string to
 export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system
 ```
 
-### Build dependencies
-
-Now we can finally get to the sources, before building KubeVirt we'll need
-to install a few build requirements:
-
-```bash
-    # We are interfacing with libvirt
-    sudo dnf install libvirt-devel
-
-    cd $GOPATH
-    # Use goimports for package import ordering
-    go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports
-    # Setup glide which is used to track dependencies
-    go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
-    # Shell script formatter
-    go get -u mvdan.cc/sh/cmd/shfmt
-```
-
-### Sources
-
-Now we can clone the project into your `$GOPATH`:
-
-```bash
-    git clone https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt.git $GOPATH/src/kubevirt.io/kubevirt
-    cd $GOPATH/src/kubevirt.io/kubevirt
-```
-
 ### Compile and run it
 
-And finally build all required artifacts and launch the
+Build all required artifacts and launch the
 Vagrant environment:
 
 ```bash
@@ -143,26 +78,7 @@ You could also run some build steps individually:
 
 **Note:** This is only important if you plan to modify sources, you don't need code generators just for building
 
-Currently we use code generators for two purposes:
-
- * Generating swagger documentation out of struct and field comments for [go-restful](https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful)
- * Generating mock interfaces for [gomock](https://github.com/golang/mock)
-
-So if you add or modify comments on structs in `pkg/api/v1` or if you change
-interface definitions, you need to rerun the code generator.
-
-First install the generator tools:
-
-```bash
-go get -u github.com/golang/mock/gomock
-go get -u github.com/rmohr/mock/mockgen
-go get -u github.com/rmohr/go-swagger-utils/swagger-doc
-go get github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo
-go get -u k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/deepcopy-gen
-go get -u k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/defaulter-gen
-```
-
-Then regenerate the code:
+To invoke all code-generators and regenerate generated code, run:
 
 ```bash
 make generate
@@ -180,7 +96,7 @@ They don't require vagrant. To run the *functional tests*, make sure you have se
 up [Vagrant](#vagrant). Then run
 
 ```bash
-    cluster/sync.sh # synchronize with your code, if necessary
+    make cluster-sync # synchronize with your code, if necessary
     make functest # run the functional tests against the Vagrant VMs
 ```
 
@@ -205,7 +121,6 @@ Finally start a VM called `testvm`:
 
 ```bash
     # This can be done from your GIT repo, no need to log into a vagrant VM
-    # You might want to watch the Cockpit Cluster topology while running these commands
 
     # Create a VM
     ./cluster/kubectl.sh create -f cluster/vm.yaml
@@ -265,7 +180,7 @@ $ ./cluster/kubectl.sh get vms -o json
     ...
 ```
 
-### Accessing the Domain via the VMs SPICE subresource
+### Accessing the Domain via VNC
 
 First make sure you have `remote-viewer` installed. On Fedora run
 
@@ -281,7 +196,4 @@ cluster/kubectl.sh vnc testvm
 
 to start a remote session with `remote-viewer`.
 
-### Accessing the Domain via the VNC primary resource
-
 Since `kubectl` does not support TPR subresources yet, the above `cluster/kubectl.sh vnc` magic is just a wrapper.
-
diff --git a/hack/bootstrap-ginkgo.sh b/hack/bootstrap-ginkgo.sh
index 102ff9169122..7493b996d2e6 100755
--- a/hack/bootstrap-ginkgo.sh
+++ b/hack/bootstrap-ginkgo.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+source $(dirname "$0")/common.sh
+
 # Find every folder containing tests
-for dir in $(find pkg/ -type f -name '*_test.go' -printf '%h\n' | sort -u); do
+for dir in $(find ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/pkg/ -type f -name '*_test.go' -printf '%h\n' | sort -u); do
     # If there is no file ending with _suite_test.go, bootstrap ginkgo
     SUITE_FILE=$(find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*_suite_test.go')
     if [ -z "$SUITE_FILE" ]; then
diff --git a/hack/build-go.sh b/hack/build-go.sh
index a4525be28523..0e3738c09062 100755
--- a/hack/build-go.sh
+++ b/hack/build-go.sh
@@ -41,16 +41,16 @@ fi
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
     if [ "${target}" = "test" ]; then
         (
-            cd pkg
+            cd ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/pkg
             go ${target} -v ./...
         )
     else
         (
-            cd pkg
+            cd ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/pkg
             go $target ./...
         )
         (
-            cd tests
+            cd ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/tests
             go $target ./...
         )
     fi
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ for arg in $args; do
         mkdir -p ${CMD_OUT_DIR}/${BIN_NAME}
         (
             cd $arg
+            go vet ./...
             go build -o ${CMD_OUT_DIR}/${BIN_NAME}/${ARCHBIN}
             (cd ${CMD_OUT_DIR}/${BIN_NAME} && ln -sf ${ARCHBIN} ${BIN_NAME})
         )
diff --git a/hack/check.sh b/hack/check.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..c56ec0c0c05a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+source hack/common.sh
+
+shfmt -i 4 -w ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/cluster/ ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/hack/ ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/images/
+goimports -w -local kubevirt.io ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/cmd/ ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/pkg/ ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/tests/
+(cd ${KUBEVIRT_DIR} && go vet ./cmd/... ./pkg/... ./tests/...)
diff --git a/hack/docker-builder/entrypoint.sh b/hack/docker-builder/entrypoint.sh
index 247ba188cdb4..00e6ce2692b3 100755
--- a/hack/docker-builder/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/hack/docker-builder/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
 
 source /etc/profile.d/gimme.sh
 export GOPATH="/root/go"
-"$@"
+eval "$@"
diff --git a/hack/dockerized b/hack/dockerized
index e3f2df45c7c8..d01bb44b8c9a 100755
--- a/hack/dockerized
+++ b/hack/dockerized
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ while ! rsync ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/${RSYNCTEMP} "rsync://root@127.0.0.1:${RSYNCD_PORT
 done
 
 _rsync() {
-    rsync -avl "$@"
+    rsync -al "$@"
 }
 
 # Copy kubevirt into the persistent docker volume
@@ -45,6 +45,6 @@ _rsync --delete --exclude '.glide*' --exclude "cluster/vagrant/.kubeconfig" --ex
 docker run --rm -v "${BUILDER}:/root:rw,z" -w "/root/go/src/kubevirt.io/kubevirt" -it ${BUILDER} "$@"
 
 # Copy the whole kubevirt data out to get generated sources and formatting changes
-_rsync --exclude '.glide*' --exclude "vendor" --exclude "_out" --exclude ".vagrant" --exclude ".git" "rsync://root@127.0.0.1:${RSYNCD_PORT}/build" ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/
+_rsync --exclude '.glide*' --exclude "_out" --exclude ".vagrant" --exclude ".git" "rsync://root@127.0.0.1:${RSYNCD_PORT}/build" ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/
 # Copy the build output out of the container, make sure that _out exactly matches the build result
 _rsync --delete "rsync://root@127.0.0.1:${RSYNCD_PORT}/out" ${OUT_DIR}
diff --git a/hack/generate.sh b/hack/generate.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..0516c708df17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/generate.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+source $(dirname "$0")/common.sh
+
+find ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/pkg/ -name "*generated*.go" -exec rm {} -f \;
+
+${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/hack/build-go.sh generate ${WHAT}
+/${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/hack/bootstrap-ginkgo.sh
+(cd ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/tools/openapispec/ && go build)
+goimports -w -local kubevirt.io ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/cmd/ ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/pkg/ ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/tests/
+${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/tools/openapispec/openapispec --dump-api-spec-path ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
diff --git a/hack/glide-checksync.sh b/hack/glide-checksync.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..dfd5722b66ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/glide-checksync.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+source $(dirname "$0")/common.sh
+
+cd ${KUBEVIRT_DIR}
+
+test -f .glide.yaml.hash || md5sum glide.yaml >.glide.yaml.hash
+if [ "$(md5sum glide.yaml)" != "$(cat .glide.yaml.hash)" ]; then
+    glide cc
+    glide update --strip-vendor
+    md5sum glide.yaml >.glide.yaml.hash
+    md5sum glide.lock >.glide.lock.hash
+elif [ "$(md5sum glide.lock)" != "$(cat .glide.lock.hash)" ]; then
+    glide install --strip-vendor && md5sum glide.lock >.glide.lock.hash
+fi