diff --git a/argus/src/intTest/README.md b/argus/src/intTest/README.md
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--- a/argus/src/intTest/README.md
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@@ -10,3 +10,84 @@ for a CADC staff member to run. Required certificates:
 The _auth_ identity has to be the (CADC) staff member's personal certificate because the test tries to output
 to `vos://cadc.nrc.ca~vault/{user.name}/test/some-file-name`. The _noauth_ identity should be cadcregtest1.
 
+An example of a minimum configuration required for the `argus` service to run on a local machine consists of the
+following containers:
+- `haproxy` (image: `cadc-haproxy-dev`) - for https termination
+- `postgress` (`cadc-postgresql-dev`) - database container
+- `reg` (`reg`) - local registry entries
+- `icewind` (`icewind`) - to create the `caom2` schema and tables
+- `argus` (`argus`) - the service itself
+
+The configuration for the required services is documented in their corresponding GitHub repos. For `arugs` the
+minimum configuration that successfully run most of the integration tests consists of the following files in
+`/config`:
+- `argus.properties`:
+    ```
+    org.opencadc.argus.VosiCapabilitiesTest > testTokenAuth`
+    ```
+- `cadc-registry.properties`:
+    ```
+    # local authority map to find the service that provides
+    # the local implementation of an API (standardID)
+    #
+    # configure RegistryClient bootstrap
+    ca.nrc.cadc.reg.client.RegistryClient.baseURL = <local reg URL>
+    # configure LocalAuthority lookups
+    # <standardID> = <resourceID of service that provides the API>
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/GMS#search-1.0 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/GMS#groups-0.1 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/GMS#search-0.1 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/UMS#users-0.1 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/UMS#login-0.1 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+
+    ivo://ivoa.net/sso#tls-with-password = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+    ivo://ivoa.net/sso#OpenID = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/gms
+
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/CDP#delegate-1.0 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/cred
+    ivo://ivoa.net/std/CDP#proxy-1.0 = ivo://cadc.nrc.ca/cred
+    ```
+
+- `cadc-tap-tmp.properties` (temporary storage in the container):
+    ```
+    org.opencadc.tap.tmp.StorageManager = org.opencadc.tap.tmp.TempStorageManager
+    org.opencadc.tap.tmp.TempStorageManager.baseURL = https://<local argus URL>/argus/results
+    org.opencadc.tap.tmp.TempStorageManager.baseStorageDir = /var/tmp/argus
+  ```
+
+- `catalina.properties` (with default pgdev container accounts):
+    ```
+    # tomcat-base
+    tomcat.connector.secure=true
+    tomcat.connector.scheme=https
+    tomcat.connector.proxyName=<name of the local host>
+    tomcat.connector.proxyPort=443
+    # enable support for haproxy SSL termination + pass client cert
+    ca.nrc.cadc.auth.PrincipalExtractor.enableClientCertHeader=true
+    # force all registry lookups local
+    ca.nrc.cadc.reg.client.RegistryClient.host=<name of local host>
+    # database connection pools
+    # tapadm - assuming pgdev:5432 is where the database is deployed
+    org.opencadc.argus.tapadm.maxActive=2
+    org.opencadc.argus.tapadm.username=tapadm
+    org.opencadc.argus.tapadm.password=pw-tapadm
+    org.opencadc.argus.tapadm.url=jdbc:postgresql://pgdev:5432/cadctest
+    # async
+    org.opencadc.argus.uws.maxActive=1
+    org.opencadc.argus.uws.username=tapadm
+    org.opencadc.argus.uws.password=pw-tapadm
+    org.opencadc.argus.uws.url=jdbc:postgresql://pgdev:5432/cadctest
+    
+    org.opencadc.argus.query.maxActive=1
+    # optional: config for separate query pool
+    org.opencadc.argus.query.username=tapuser
+    org.opencadc.argus.query.password=pw-tapuser
+    org.opencadc.argus.query.url=jdbc:postgresql://pgdev:5432/cadctest
+    
+    # enable support for haproxy SSL termination + pass client cert
+    ca.nrc.cadc.auth.PrincipalExtractor.enableClientCertHeader=true
+    
+    ca.nrc.cadc.auth.IdentityManager=ca.nrc.cadc.ac.ACIdentityManager
+    # or ca.nrc.cadc.auth.IdentityManager=org.opencadc.auth.StandardIdentityManager
+  ```
+