diff --git a/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli.rst b/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli.rst
index b58526bcc..22b22a488 100644
--- a/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli.rst
+++ b/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli.rst
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ This section includes the following topics:
    cli/cli_nodes.rst
    cli/cli_node_group.rst
    cli/cli_roles.rst
+   cli/cli_nodes_empty_role.rst
    cli/cli_plugins.rst
    cli/cli_graphs.rst
    cli/cli_config_openstack.rst
diff --git a/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli/cli_nodes_empty_role.rst b/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli/cli_nodes_empty_role.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28f73aaa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/cli/cli_nodes_empty_role.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+.. _cli-nodes-empty-role:
+
+Deploy a node with an empty role
+--------------------------------
+
+You may need to deploy a node with an operating system installed only,
+that is an empty role, where you can further deploy your own service
+out of Fuel control.
+
+**To deploy a node with an empty role:**
+
+#. Verify available operating systems:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel release
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      id | name                       | state       | operating_system | version
+      ---|----------------------------|-------------|------------------|-----------
+      2  | Mitaka on Ubuntu 14.04     | available   | Ubuntu           | mitaka-9.0
+      3  | Mitaka on Ubuntu+UCA 14.04 | available   | Ubuntu           | mitaka-9.0
+      1  | Mitaka on CentOS 6.5       | unavailable | CentOS           | mitaka-9.0
+
+
+   Note down the operating system ``id`` you need to install on the node.
+
+#. Verify available nodes:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel node
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      id | status   | name             | cluster | ip        | mac               | roles | pending_roles | online | group_id
+      ---|----------|------------------|---------|-----------|-------------------|-------|---------------|--------|---------
+      2  | discover | Untitled (90:9b) | None    | 10.20.0.4 | 08:00:27:f5:90:9b |       |               | True   | None
+      3  | discover | Untitled (53:f1) | None    | 10.20.0.5 | 08:00:27:14:53:f1 |       |               | True   | None
+      1  | discover | Untitled (7c:11) | None    | 10.20.0.3 | 08:00:27:72:7c:11 |       |               | True   | None
+
+
+#. Create a new environment if you do not have one:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel env create --name <ENV_NAME> --release 2
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      Environment `<ENV_NAME>` with id=1 was created!
+
+#. Verify that the environment has been created:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel env
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      id | status | name       | release_id
+      ---|--------|------------|-----------
+      1  | new    | <ENV_NAME> | 2
+
+   Note down the ``id`` of the environment.
+
+#. Verify available roles:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel role --release 2
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      name
+      -------------------
+      compute-vmware
+      compute
+      cinder-vmware
+      virt
+      base-os
+      controller
+      ceph-osd
+      ironic
+      cinder
+      cinder-block-device
+      mongo
+
+   The role that you need is ``base-os``.
+
+#. Add one of the discovered nodes to the environment with the ``base-os`` role assigned:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel node set --env 1 --node 1 --role base-os
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      Nodes [1] with roles ['base-os'] were added to environment 1
+
+#. Verify the status of the nodes:
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      fuel node
+
+   **Example of system response:**
+
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      id | status   | name             | cluster | ip        | mac               | roles | pending_roles | online | group_id
+      ---|----------|------------------|---------|-----------|-------------------|-------|---------------|--------|---------
+      1  | discover | Untitled (7c:11) | 1       | 10.20.0.3 | 08:00:27:72:7c:11 |       | base-os       | True   | 1
+      2  | discover | Untitled (90:9b) | None    | 10.20.0.4 | 08:00:27:f5:90:9b |       |               | True   | None
+      3  | discover | Untitled (53:f1) | None    | 10.20.0.5 | 08:00:27:14:53:f1 |       |               | True   | None
+
+
+Your node with an empty role has been added to the environment.
+
+.. note::
+
+   By default, Fuel does not apply network configuration.
+   To set up network configuration, run the ``netconfig`` puppet manifests
+   that comes with ``fuel-library``.
+   Fuel automatically executes the following tasks on ``base-os`` nodes only:
+
+   * ``hiera``
+   * ``globals``
+   * ``logging``
+
+   See the `tasks.yaml <https://github.com/openstack/fuel-library/blob/master/deployment/puppet/deployment_groups/tasks.yaml#L130>`__
+   configuration file
diff --git a/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/configure-environment/add-nodes.rst b/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/configure-environment/add-nodes.rst
index 9156f2b48..62ef3aaae 100644
--- a/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/configure-environment/add-nodes.rst
+++ b/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/configure-environment/add-nodes.rst
@@ -43,3 +43,4 @@ For more information, see
    - *System requirements* in *Fuel Installation Guide*
    - :ref:`add-label-ug`
    - :ref:`change-hostname-slave-nodes`
+   - :ref:`cli-nodes-empty-role`