diff --git a/docs/contributing/development_environment.md b/docs/contributing/development_environment.md
index c2652e424..da778a5a3 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/development_environment.md
+++ b/docs/contributing/development_environment.md
@@ -56,6 +56,34 @@ cd install_yamls/devsetup
 make standalone
 ```
 
+Create the edpm-compute-1 virtual machine for an extra Nova compute cell. Note
+that the main cell `nova` (in terms of OSP) is going to become `nova_cell1`,
+and this extra `cell1` we're adding into the source OSP deployment, is going
+to become `nova_cell2`, after the data plane adoption finishes.
+```
+make edpm_compute EDPM_COMPUTE_SUFFIX=1
+make edpm_compute_repos EDPM_COMPUTE_SUFFIX=1
+```
+
+Omit the `edpm_deploy` make target to not making it managed from the control
+plane running on OCP. Instead, deploy it as a 2nd TripleO standalone Heat stack,
+with an extra OSP compute:
+```
+make openstack EDPM_COMPUTE_SUFFIX=1
+```
+
+Ssh into deployed standalone host:
+```
+ssh -i ~/install_yamls/out/edpm/ansibleee-ssh-key-id_rsa root@192.168.122.100
+```
+Discover the deployed compute host keys (a passwordless access is required by
+the Nova Live-migration feature):
+```
+ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa root@192.168.122.101
+```
+
+TODO Discover the remote compute node from the central controller node
+
 ### Convenience steps
 
 To make our life easier we can copy the deployment passwords we'll be using
@@ -116,6 +144,8 @@ export OS_CLOUD=standalone
 source ~/install_yamls/devsetup/scripts/edpm-deploy-instance.sh
 ```
 
+TODO(bogdando): document creating a 2nd instance on another compute cell
+
 Confirm the image UUID can be seen in Ceph's images pool.
 ```
 ssh -i ~/install_yamls/out/edpm/ansibleee-ssh-key-id_rsa root@192.168.122.100 sudo cephadm shell -- rbd -p images ls -l