diff --git a/hack/verify-generated-docs.sh b/hack/verify-generated-docs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4c52a1b22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/verify-generated-docs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+CRT_DIR=$(pwd)
+VERIFY_TEMP=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t k8s-community.XXXXXX)
+WORKING_DIR=${VERIFY_TEMP}/src/testgendocs
+GOPATH=${VERIFY_TEMP}
+mkdir -p ${WORKING_DIR}
+
+function cleanup {
+  rm -rf "${VERIFY_TEMP}"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+cp -r sigs.yaml sig-* wg-* Makefile generator vendor ${WORKING_DIR}/
+
+cd ${WORKING_DIR}
+make 1>/dev/null
+
+mismatches=0
+break=$(printf "=%.0s" $(seq 1 68))
+
+for file in $(ls ${CRT_DIR}/sig-*/README.md ${CRT_DIR}/wg-*/README.md ${CRT_DIR}/sig-list.md ${CRT_DIR}/OWNERS_ALIASES); do
+  real=${file#$CRT_DIR/}
+  if ! diff -q ${file} ${WORKING_DIR}/${real} &>/dev/null; then
+    echo "${file} does not match ${WORKING_DIR}/${real}";
+    mismatches=$((mismatches+1))
+  fi;
+done
+
+if [ ${mismatches} -gt "0" ]; then
+  echo ""
+  echo ${break}
+  noun="mismatch was"
+  if [ ${mismatches} -gt "0" ]; then
+    noun="mismatches were"
+  fi
+  echo "${mismatches} ${noun} detected."
+  echo "Do not manually edit sig-list.md or README.md files inside the sig folders."
+  echo "Instead make your changes to sigs.yaml and then run \`make\`.";
+  echo ${break}
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/hack/verify.sh b/hack/verify.sh
index 52d57a020..45c1fd7c4 100755
--- a/hack/verify.sh
+++ b/hack/verify.sh
@@ -1,44 +1,121 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-CRT_DIR=$(pwd)
-VERIFY_TEMP=$(mktemp -d 2>/dev/null || mktemp -d -t k8s-community.XXXXXX)
-WORKING_DIR=${VERIFY_TEMP}/src/testgendocs
-GOPATH=${VERIFY_TEMP}
-mkdir -p ${WORKING_DIR}
+# Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
 
-function cleanup {
-  rm -rf "${VERIFY_TEMP}"
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
 
-cp -r sigs.yaml sig-* wg-* Makefile generator ${WORKING_DIR}/
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
 
-cd ${WORKING_DIR}
-make 1>/dev/null
-
-mismatches=0
-break=$(printf "=%.0s" $(seq 1 68))
-
-for file in $(ls ${CRT_DIR}/sig-*/README.md ${CRT_DIR}/wg-*/README.md ${CRT_DIR}/sig-list.md ${CRT_DIR}/OWNERS_ALIASES); do
-  real=${file#$CRT_DIR/}
-  if ! diff -q ${file} ${WORKING_DIR}/${real} &>/dev/null; then
-    echo "${file} does not match ${WORKING_DIR}/${real}";
-    mismatches=$((mismatches+1))
-  fi;
-done
-
-if [ ${mismatches} -gt "0" ]; then
-  echo ""
-  echo ${break}
-  noun="mismatch was"
-  if [ ${mismatches} -gt "0" ]; then
-    noun="mismatches were"
-  fi
-  echo "${mismatches} ${noun} detected."
-  echo "Do not manually edit sig-list.md or README.md files inside the sig folders."
-  echo "Instead make your changes to sigs.yaml and then run \`make\`.";
-  echo ${break}
-  exit 1;
+# Some useful colors.
+if [[ -z "${color_start-}" ]]; then
+  declare -r color_start="\033["
+  declare -r color_red="${color_start}0;31m"
+  declare -r color_yellow="${color_start}0;33m"
+  declare -r color_green="${color_start}0;32m"
+  declare -r color_norm="${color_start}0m"
 fi
 
-exit 0
+# Excluded check patterns are always skipped.
+EXCLUDED_PATTERNS=(
+  "verify-all.sh"                # this script calls the make rule and would cause a loop
+  "verify-*-dockerized.sh"       # Don't run any scripts that intended to be run dockerized
+  )
+
+EXCLUDED_CHECKS=$(ls ${EXCLUDED_PATTERNS[@]/#/${KUBE_ROOT}\/hack\/} 2>/dev/null || true)
+
+function is-excluded {
+  for e in ${EXCLUDED_CHECKS[@]}; do
+    if [[ $1 -ef "$e" ]]; then
+      return
+    fi
+  done
+  return 1
+}
+
+function run-cmd {
+  if ${SILENT}; then
+    "$@" &> /dev/null
+  else
+    "$@"
+  fi
+}
+
+# Collect Failed tests in this Array , initialize it to nil
+FAILED_TESTS=()
+
+function print-failed-tests {
+  echo -e "========================"
+  echo -e "${color_red}FAILED TESTS${color_norm}"
+  echo -e "========================"
+  for t in ${FAILED_TESTS[@]}; do
+      echo -e "${color_red}${t}${color_norm}"
+  done
+}
+
+function run-checks {
+  local -r pattern=$1
+  local -r runner=$2
+
+  local t
+  for t in $(ls ${pattern})
+  do
+    local check_name="$(basename "${t}")"
+    if is-excluded "${t}" ; then
+      echo "Skipping ${check_name}"
+      continue
+    fi
+    echo -e "Verifying ${check_name}"
+    local start=$(date +%s)
+    run-cmd "${runner}" "${t}" && tr=$? || tr=$?
+    local elapsed=$(($(date +%s) - ${start}))
+    if [[ ${tr} -eq 0 ]]; then
+      echo -e "${color_green}SUCCESS${color_norm}  ${check_name}\t${elapsed}s"
+    else
+      echo -e "${color_red}FAILED${color_norm}   ${check_name}\t${elapsed}s"
+      ret=1
+      FAILED_TESTS+=(${t})
+    fi
+  done
+}
+
+SILENT=false
+
+while getopts ":s" opt; do
+  case ${opt} in
+    s)
+      SILENT=true
+      ;;
+    \?)
+      echo "Invalid flag: -${OPTARG}" >&2
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if ${SILENT} ; then
+  echo "Running in silent mode, run without -s if you want to see script logs."
+fi
+
+ret=0
+run-checks "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/verify-*.sh" bash
+
+if [[ ${ret} -eq 1 ]]; then
+    print-failed-tests
+fi
+exit ${ret}
+
+# ex: ts=2 sw=2 et filetype=sh