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@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ Distributed & E2EE self-hosting.  The goal is to have nodes voluntarily join the
 
   The underlaying hardware type shouldn't be a constraint, within reason.
 
+## Lighthouse installation
+1. Clone the repo.
+2. Create a directory to hold the config and certificates.
+3. Copy `lighthouse-config.yaml` as `config.yaml` in the new directory.
+4. Update the `docker-compose.yaml` to bind mount the newly created directory to `/etc/nebula`.
+5. Run the container with `docker-compose up -d`.  This will create two files, `host.key` and `host.csr`.
+6. Send the contents of the `host.csr` file to a cluster admin to sign.
+7. The returned, signed certificate should go alongside the `host.csr` file and be called, `host.crt`.
+8. Start the container again and it should find the config and certificates and then connect to the existing cluster.
+9. Update the `static_host_map` entry in the repo's `node-config.yaml` with the new Lighthouse mesh and public IP address and encourage everyone to update their config files from the repo.
+
 ## Node installation
 
 1. Clone the repo.