diff --git a/docs/source/distributions/kubernetes_deployment.md b/docs/source/distributions/kubernetes_deployment.md
index 2daf9d785..21ec02012 100644
--- a/docs/source/distributions/kubernetes_deployment.md
+++ b/docs/source/distributions/kubernetes_deployment.md
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ First, create a local Kubernetes cluster via Kind:
 kind create cluster --image kindest/node:v1.32.0 --name llama-stack-test
 ```
 
-First, create a Kubernetes PVC and Secret for downloading and storing Hugging Face model:
+First set your hugging face token as an environment variable.
+```
+export HF_TOKEN=$(echo -n "your-hf-token" | base64)
+```
+
+Now create a Kubernetes PVC and Secret for downloading and storing Hugging Face model:
 
 ```
 cat <<EOF |kubectl apply -f -
@@ -33,7 +38,8 @@ metadata:
   name: hf-token-secret
 type: Opaque
 data:
-  token: $(HF_TOKEN)
+  token: $HF_TOKEN
+EOF
 ```
 
 
@@ -120,7 +126,7 @@ providers:
 Once we have defined the run configuration for Llama Stack, we can build an image with that configuration and the server source code:
 
 ```
-cat >/tmp/test-vllm-llama-stack/Containerfile.llama-stack-run-k8s <<EOF
+tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d) && cat >$tmp_dir/Containerfile.llama-stack-run-k8s <<EOF
 FROM distribution-myenv:dev
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git
@@ -128,7 +134,7 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack.git /app/llama-stack-sou
 
 ADD ./vllm-llama-stack-run-k8s.yaml /app/config.yaml
 EOF
-podman build -f /tmp/test-vllm-llama-stack/Containerfile.llama-stack-run-k8s -t llama-stack-run-k8s /tmp/test-vllm-llama-stack
+podman build -f $tmp_dir/Containerfile.llama-stack-run-k8s -t llama-stack-run-k8s $tmp_dir
 ```
 
 ### Deploying Llama Stack Server in Kubernetes