diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f98453a2e1..1c04f98581 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/pkg/utils.GitHash=$(shell git rev-parse HEA
 LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/pkg/utils.GitBranch=$(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
 LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/pkg/utils.GoVersion=$(shell go version)"
 
-
 CURDIR   := $(shell pwd)
 GO       := GO111MODULE=on go
 GOBUILD  := CGO_ENABLED=0 $(GO) build
@@ -21,10 +20,18 @@ ifeq ("$(WITH_RACE)", "1")
 	GOBUILD   = CGO_ENABLED=1 $(GO) build
 endif
 
-ARCH      := "`uname -s`"
+ARCH      := "$(shell uname -s)"
 LINUX     := "Linux"
 MAC       := "Darwin"
 
+ifeq ($(ARCH), $(LINUX))
+	LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/dm/worker.SampleConfigFile=$(shell cat dm/worker/dm-worker.toml | base64 -w 0)"
+	LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/dm/master.SampleConfigFile=$(shell cat dm/master/dm-master.toml | base64 -w 0)"
+else
+	LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/dm/worker.SampleConfigFile=$(shell cat dm/worker/dm-worker.toml | base64)"
+	LDFLAGS += -X "github.com/pingcap/dm/dm/master.SampleConfigFile=$(shell cat dm/master/dm-master.toml | base64)" 
+endif
+
 .PHONY: build test dm_integration_test_build integration_test coverage check \
 	dm-worker dm-master dmctl
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index be67f20740..44040f3b8a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,6 +35,30 @@ make dmctl      # build dmctl
 
 When DM is built successfully, you can find binaries in the `bin` directory.
 
+## Installing
+
+* The best way to install DM is via [DM-Ansible](https://pingcap.com/docs/tools/data-migration-deployment/)
+* deploy DM manually
+  ```
+  # Download the DM package.
+  wget http://download.pingcap.org/dm-latest-linux-amd64.tar.gz
+  wget http://download.pingcap.org/dm-latest-linux-amd64.sha256
+
+  # Check the file integrity. If the result is OK, the file is correct.
+  sha256sum -c dm-latest-linux-amd64.sha256
+
+  # Extract the package.
+  tar -xzf dm-latest-linux-amd64.tar.gz
+  cd dm-latest-linux-amd64
+  ```
+
+## Config File
+
+* all sample config files can be found in directory `conf` of dm tarball
+* sample config file of dm-master: `bin/dm-master -print-sample-config`
+* sample config file of dm-worker: `bin/dm-worker -print-sample-config`
+
+
 ## Contributing
 Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
 for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow.
diff --git a/dm/master/config.go b/dm/master/config.go
index ccfab02e74..c4dbe1f6c3 100644
--- a/dm/master/config.go
+++ b/dm/master/config.go
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@
 package master
 
 import (
+	"encoding/base64"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
 	"github.com/pingcap/dm/pkg/log"
@@ -25,6 +27,11 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pingcap/errors"
 )
 
+// SampleConfigFile is sample config file of dm-master
+// later we can read it from dm/master/dm-master.toml
+// and assign it to SampleConfigFile while we build dm-master
+var SampleConfigFile string
+
 // NewConfig creates a config for dm-master
 func NewConfig() *Config {
 	cfg := &Config{}
@@ -32,6 +39,7 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 	fs := cfg.FlagSet
 
 	fs.BoolVar(&cfg.printVersion, "V", false, "prints version and exit")
+	fs.BoolVar(&cfg.printSampleConfig, "print-sample-config", false, "print sample config file of dm-worker")
 	fs.StringVar(&cfg.ConfigFile, "config", "", "path to config file")
 	fs.StringVar(&cfg.MasterAddr, "master-addr", "", "master API server and status addr")
 	fs.StringVar(&cfg.LogLevel, "L", "info", "log level: debug, info, warn, error, fatal")
@@ -72,7 +80,8 @@ type Config struct {
 
 	ConfigFile string `json:"config-file"`
 
-	printVersion bool
+	printVersion      bool
+	printSampleConfig bool
 }
 
 func (c *Config) String() string {
@@ -96,6 +105,20 @@ func (c *Config) Parse(arguments []string) error {
 		return flag.ErrHelp
 	}
 
+	if c.printSampleConfig {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(SampleConfigFile) == "" {
+			fmt.Println("sample config file of dm-master is empty")
+		} else {
+			rawConfig, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(SampleConfigFile)
+			if err != nil {
+				fmt.Println("base64 decode config error:", err)
+			} else {
+				fmt.Println(string(rawConfig))
+			}
+		}
+		return flag.ErrHelp
+	}
+
 	// Load config file if specified.
 	if c.ConfigFile != "" {
 		err = c.configFromFile(c.ConfigFile)
diff --git a/dm/master/dm-master.toml b/dm/master/dm-master.toml
index cd995e6f77..4937ecdfc0 100644
--- a/dm/master/dm-master.toml
+++ b/dm/master/dm-master.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # Master Configuration.
 
+#log configuration
 log-level = "info"
 log-file = "dm-master.log"
-log-rotate = "day"
 
+#dm-master listen address
 master-addr = ":8261"
 
-# mysql <-> Worker deployment, we'll refine it when new deployment function is available
-
+# replication group <-> dm-Worker deployment, we'll refine it when new deployment function is available
 [[deploy]]
 source-id = "mysql-replica-01"
 dm-worker = "172.16.10.72:8262"
diff --git a/dm/worker/config.go b/dm/worker/config.go
index 4a667ebd07..91c17a9410 100644
--- a/dm/worker/config.go
+++ b/dm/worker/config.go
@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ package worker
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"encoding/base64"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
 	"github.com/pingcap/dm/pkg/log"
@@ -31,6 +33,11 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pingcap/dm/relay/purger"
 )
 
+// SampleConfigFile is sample config file of dm-worker
+// later we can read it from dm/worker/dm-worker.toml
+// and assign it to SampleConfigFile while we build dm-worker
+var SampleConfigFile string
+
 // NewConfig creates a new base config for worker.
 func NewConfig() *Config {
 	cfg := &Config{}
@@ -38,6 +45,7 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 	fs := cfg.flagSet
 
 	fs.BoolVar(&cfg.printVersion, "V", false, "prints version and exit")
+	fs.BoolVar(&cfg.printSampleConfig, "print-sample-config", false, "print sample config file of dm-worker")
 	fs.StringVar(&cfg.ConfigFile, "config", "", "path to config file")
 	fs.StringVar(&cfg.WorkerAddr, "worker-addr", "", "worker API server and status addr")
 	fs.StringVar(&cfg.LogLevel, "L", "info", "log level: debug, info, warn, error, fatal")
@@ -63,7 +71,6 @@ type Config struct {
 
 	EnableGTID  bool   `toml:"enable-gtid" json:"enable-gtid"`
 	AutoFixGTID bool   `toml:"auto-fix-gtid" json:"auto-fix-gtid"`
-	MetaFile    string `toml:"meta-file" json:"meta-file"`
 	RelayDir    string `toml:"relay-dir" json:"relay-dir"`
 	ServerID    int    `toml:"server-id" json:"server-id"`
 	Flavor      string `toml:"flavor" json:"flavor"`
@@ -81,7 +88,8 @@ type Config struct {
 
 	ConfigFile string `json:"config-file"`
 
-	printVersion bool
+	printVersion      bool
+	printSampleConfig bool
 }
 
 // Clone clones a config
@@ -141,6 +149,20 @@ func (c *Config) Parse(arguments []string) error {
 		return flag.ErrHelp
 	}
 
+	if c.printSampleConfig {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(SampleConfigFile) == "" {
+			fmt.Println("sample config file of dm-worker is empty")
+		} else {
+			rawConfig, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(SampleConfigFile)
+			if err != nil {
+				fmt.Println("base64 decode config error:", err)
+			} else {
+				fmt.Println(string(rawConfig))
+			}
+		}
+		return flag.ErrHelp
+	}
+
 	// Load config file if specified.
 	if c.ConfigFile != "" {
 		err = c.configFromFile(c.ConfigFile)
diff --git a/dm/worker/dm-worker.toml b/dm/worker/dm-worker.toml
index 931d71ed46..f8b178970c 100644
--- a/dm/worker/dm-worker.toml
+++ b/dm/worker/dm-worker.toml
@@ -1,18 +1,29 @@
 # Worker Configuration.
 
+#log configuration
 log-level = "info"
 log-file = "dm-worker.log"
-log-rotate = "day"
 
+#dm-worker listen address
 worker-addr = ":8262"
 
-
+#server id of slave for binlog replication
+#each instance (master and slave) in replication group should have different server id
 server-id = 101
-source-id = "127.0.0.1:3306"
+
+#represents a MySQL/MariaDB instance or a replication group
+source-id = "mysql-replica-01"
+
+#flavor: mysql/mariadb
 flavor = "mysql"
+
+#directory that used to store relay log
 relay-dir = "./relay_log"
-meta-file = "relay.meta"
+
+#enable gtid in relay log unit
 enable-gtid = false
+
+#charset of DSN of source mysql/mariadb instance
 # charset= ""
 
 [from]
@@ -21,6 +32,7 @@ user = "root"
 password = ""
 port = 3306
 
+#relay log purge strategy
 #[purge]
 #interval = 3600
 #expires = 24
diff --git a/dm/worker/relay.go b/dm/worker/relay.go
index 34b454faed..597642487a 100644
--- a/dm/worker/relay.go
+++ b/dm/worker/relay.go
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ func NewRelayHolder(cfg *Config) *RelayHolder {
 		EnableGTID:  cfg.EnableGTID,
 		AutoFixGTID: cfg.AutoFixGTID,
 		Flavor:      cfg.Flavor,
-		MetaFile:    cfg.MetaFile,
 		RelayDir:    cfg.RelayDir,
 		ServerID:    cfg.ServerID,
 		Charset:     cfg.Charset,
diff --git a/dm/worker/worker.go b/dm/worker/worker.go
index 7023414654..d84dedefb3 100644
--- a/dm/worker/worker.go
+++ b/dm/worker/worker.go
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ func (w *Worker) copyConfigFromWorker(cfg *config.SubTaskConfig) {
 	// log config items, mydumper unit use it
 	cfg.LogLevel = w.cfg.LogLevel
 	cfg.LogFile = w.cfg.LogFile
-	cfg.LogRotate = w.cfg.LogRotate
 }
 
 // StopSubTask stops a running sub task
diff --git a/relay/config.go b/relay/config.go
index 448deddda8..a67fba4c2f 100644
--- a/relay/config.go
+++ b/relay/config.go
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import (
 type Config struct {
 	EnableGTID  bool     `toml:"enable-gtid" json:"enable-gtid"`
 	AutoFixGTID bool     `toml:"auto-fix-gtid" json:"auto-fix-gtid"`
-	MetaFile    string   `toml:"meta-file" json:"meta-file"`
 	RelayDir    string   `toml:"relay-dir" json:"relay-dir"`
 	ServerID    int      `toml:"server-id" json:"server-id"`
 	Flavor      string   `toml:"flavor" json:"flavor"`