diff --git a/doc/source/deploy/user-guide.rst b/doc/source/deploy/user-guide.rst
index b586379eae..9c0f503ba6 100644
--- a/doc/source/deploy/user-guide.rst
+++ b/doc/source/deploy/user-guide.rst
@@ -173,8 +173,12 @@ through the steps involved during the provisioning of a bare metal instance.
 
 These pre-requisites must be met before the deployment process:
 
-- Dependent packages to be configured on the compute node like tftp-server,
-  ipmi, syslinux etc for bare metal provisioning.
+- Dependent packages to be configured on the Bare Metal service node(s)
+  where ironic-conductor is running like tftp-server, ipmi, syslinux etc for
+  bare metal provisioning.
+- Nova must be configured to make use of the bare metal service endpoint
+  and compute driver should be configured to use ironic driver on the Nova
+  compute node(s).
 - Flavors to be created for the available hardware. Nova must know the flavor
   to boot from.
 - Images to be made available in Glance. Listed below are some image types