diff --git a/cmd/k8s-pipeliner/main.go b/cmd/k8s-pipeliner/main.go
index 81a98c9..5a2fc60 100644
--- a/cmd/k8s-pipeliner/main.go
+++ b/cmd/k8s-pipeliner/main.go
@@ -3,17 +3,18 @@ package main
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
+	"github.com/namely/k8s-pipeliner/pipeline"
 	"github.com/namely/k8s-pipeliner/pipeline/builder"
 	"github.com/namely/k8s-pipeliner/pipeline/config"
-	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli"
 )
 
 const (
 	// Version defines the current version of k8s-pipeliner
-	Version = "0.0.1"
+	Version = "0.0.2"
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -29,10 +30,15 @@ func main() {
 			Usage:  "creates a spinnaker pipeline for a given application on multiple k8s clusters",
 			Action: createAction,
 		},
+		{
+			Name:   "validate",
+			Usage:  "performs simple validation on a pipeline to ensure it will work with Spinnaker + Kubernetes",
+			Action: validateAction,
+		},
 	}
 
 	if err := app.Run(os.Args); err != nil {
-		logrus.WithError(err).Error()
+		fmt.Println(err.Error())
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 }
@@ -48,10 +54,38 @@ func createAction(ctx *cli.Context) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	pipeline, err := config.NewPipeline(f)
+	p, err := config.NewPipeline(f)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	return json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout).Encode(builder.New(pipeline))
+	return json.NewEncoder(os.Stdout).Encode(builder.New(p))
+}
+
+func validateAction(ctx *cli.Context) error {
+	p, err := pipelineConfigHelper(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return pipeline.NewValidator(p).Validate()
+}
+
+func pipelineConfigHelper(ctx *cli.Context) (*config.Pipeline, error) {
+	pipelineFile := ctx.Args().First()
+	if pipelineFile == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("missing parameter: file")
+	}
+
+	f, err := os.Open(pipelineFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	p, err := config.NewPipeline(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return p, nil
 }
diff --git a/pipeline/builder/builder.go b/pipeline/builder/builder.go
index a471981..79bba1d 100644
--- a/pipeline/builder/builder.go
+++ b/pipeline/builder/builder.go
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ func New(p *config.Pipeline) *Builder {
 	return &Builder{p}
 }
 
-// MarshalJSON implements json.Marshaller
-func (b *Builder) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+// Pipeline returns a filled out spinnaker pipeline from the given
+// config
+func (b *Builder) Pipeline() (*types.SpinnakerPipeline, error) {
 	sp := &types.SpinnakerPipeline{}
 
 	for _, trigger := range b.pipeline.Triggers {
@@ -64,6 +65,16 @@ func (b *Builder) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 		sp.Stages = append(sp.Stages, s)
 	}
 
+	return sp, nil
+}
+
+// MarshalJSON implements json.Marshaller
+func (b *Builder) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	sp, err := b.Pipeline()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	return json.Marshal(sp)
 }
 
diff --git a/pipeline/validator.go b/pipeline/validator.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7feafd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pipeline/validator.go
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package pipeline
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	multierror "github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
+	"github.com/namely/k8s-pipeliner/pipeline/builder"
+	"github.com/namely/k8s-pipeliner/pipeline/builder/types"
+	"github.com/namely/k8s-pipeliner/pipeline/config"
+)
+
+// Validator validates that a pipeline is valid
+type Validator struct {
+	pipeline *config.Pipeline
+}
+
+// NewValidator initializes a validator object
+func NewValidator(p *config.Pipeline) *Validator {
+	return &Validator{pipeline: p}
+}
+
+// Validate performs some validations on the pipeline configuration
+// to see if it passes some simple standards such as "do deploys have resources allocated"
+func (v *Validator) Validate() error {
+	b := builder.New(v.pipeline)
+	sp, err := b.Pipeline()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	var errs *multierror.Error
+	for _, stage := range sp.Stages {
+		switch s := stage.(type) {
+		case *types.DeployStage:
+			errs = multierror.Append(validateDeployStage(s))
+		}
+	}
+
+	return errs
+}
+
+func validateDeployStage(s *types.DeployStage) error {
+	var errs *multierror.Error
+
+	for _, cluster := range s.Clusters {
+		for _, container := range cluster.Containers {
+			if container.Requests.CPU == "0" {
+				err := fmt.Errorf("Stage: %s, Container: %s - Missing CPU on Resource Requests", s.Name, container.Name)
+				errs = multierror.Append(err)
+			}
+
+			if container.Requests.Memory == "0" {
+				err := fmt.Errorf("Stage: %s, Container: %s - Missing Memory on Resource Requests", s.Name, container.Name)
+				errs = multierror.Append(err)
+			}
+
+			if container.Limits.CPU == "0" {
+				err := fmt.Errorf("Stage: %s, Container: %s - Missing CPU on Resource Limits", s.Name, container.Name)
+				errs = multierror.Append(err)
+			}
+
+			if container.Limits.Memory == "0" {
+				err := fmt.Errorf("Stage: %s, Container: %s - Missing Memory on Resource Limits", s.Name, container.Name)
+				errs = multierror.Append(err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return errs
+}
diff --git a/test-deployment.yml b/test-deployment.yml
index ad1226d..6cc8b5e 100644
--- a/test-deployment.yml
+++ b/test-deployment.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-apiVersion: extensions/v1beta2
+apiVersion: apps/v1beta2
 kind: Deployment
 metadata:
   name: example