diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 45b872e..03e5263 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ local
 *~
 nosetests.xml
 syncserver.db
+*.DS_Store
+syncstorage-rs
+.vscode
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d833174..d729b54 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 Run-Your-Own Firefox Sync Server
 ================================
 
+Note
+----
+
+For the duration of Q4 2020 this documentation will be revised. This situation will only be temporary until tokenserver is ported to rust and this documentation is rewritten to leave out the old dependencies.
+
+About syncserver
+----------------
+
 .. image:: https://circleci.com/gh/mozilla-services/syncserver/tree/master.svg?style=svg
    :target: https://circleci.com/gh/mozilla-services/syncserver/tree/master
 
@@ -8,7 +16,7 @@ Run-Your-Own Firefox Sync Server
    :target: https://hub.docker.com/r/mozilla/syncserver/
 
 This is an all-in-one package for running a self-hosted Firefox Sync server.
-It bundles the "tokenserver" project for authentication and the "syncstorage"
+It bundles the "tokenserver" project for authentication and the "syncstorage-rs"
 project for storage, to produce a single stand-alone webapp.
 
 Complete installation instructions are available at:
@@ -35,6 +43,18 @@ following packages (or similar, depending on your operating system) installed:
 - ncurses-dev
 - openssl-dev
 
+syncstorage-rs uses the following additional dependencies:
+
+- cmake
+- golang
+- libcurl4-openssl-dev
+- libssl-dev
+- pkg-config
+- Rust stable https://rustup.rs/
+- MySQL 5.7 (or compatible)
+    - libmysqlclient (brew install mysql on macOS, apt install libmysqlclient-dev on Ubuntu)
+
+
 Take a checkout of this repository, then run "make build" to pull in the
 necessary python package dependencies::
 
diff --git a/run-syncstorage-rs.sh b/run-syncstorage-rs.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..02bac99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run-syncstorage-rs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+if [ ! -d "syncstorage-rs" ]; then
+	echo "Downloading syncstorage-rs"
+	git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
+fi
+
+echo "Starting syncstorage-rs"
+
+cd syncstorage-rs
+
+SYNC_HUMAN_LOGS=1 RUST_LOG=trace cargo run
diff --git a/syncserver.ini b/syncserver.ini
index ccf1ae0..e296b18 100644
--- a/syncserver.ini
+++ b/syncserver.ini
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ force_wsgi_environ = false
 # MySQL based syncstorage-rs 1.5 server hosted at http://localhost:8000/1.5
 
 # "{node}/1.5/{uid}"
-# sync-1.5 = "http://localhost:8000/1.5/{uid}"
+sync-1.5 = "http://localhost:8000/1.5/{uid}"
diff --git a/syncserver/__init__.py b/syncserver/__init__.py
index adebe54..92006cd 100644
--- a/syncserver/__init__.py
+++ b/syncserver/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import binascii
 import os
 import logging
+import subprocess
 try:
     from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse, urljoin
 except ImportError:
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ def includeme(config):
     if sqluri is None:
         rootdir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
         sqluri = "sqlite:///" + os.path.join(rootdir, "syncserver.db")
+    else:
+        os.environ['SYNC_DATABASE_URL'] = sqluri
 
     # Automagically configure from IdP if one is given.
     idp = settings.get("syncserver.identity_provider")
@@ -155,7 +158,10 @@ def includeme(config):
 
     # Include the relevant sub-packages.
     config.scan("syncserver", ignore=["syncserver.wsgi_app"])
-    config.include("syncstorage", route_prefix="/storage")
+
+    os.environ['SYNC_MASTER_SECRET'] = secret
+    subprocess.call("/usr/bin/env sh run-syncstorage-rs.sh &", shell=True)
+
     config.include("tokenserver", route_prefix="/token")
 
     # Add a top-level "it works!" view.