moby/docs

Docker Documentation

Documentation

This is your definite place to contribute to the docker documentation. After each push to master the documentation is automatically generated and made available on docs.docker.io

Each of the .rst files under sources reflects a page on the documentation.

Installation

• Work in your own fork of the code, we accept pull requests.
• Install sphinx: pip install sphinx
  • Mac OS X: [sudo] pip-2.7 install sphinx)
• Install sphinx httpdomain contrib package: pip install sphinxcontrib-httpdomain
  • Mac OS X: [sudo] pip-2.7 install sphinxcontrib-httpdomain
• If pip is not available you can probably install it using your favorite package manager as python-pip

Usage

• Change the .rst files with your favorite editor to your liking.
• Run make docs to clean up old files and generate new ones.
• Your static website can now be found in the _build directory.
• To preview what you have generated run make server and open http://localhost:8000/ in your favorite browser.

Working using GitHub's file editor

Alternatively, for small changes and typo's you might want to use GitHub's built in file editor. It allows you to preview your changes right online. Just be careful not to create many commits.

Images

When you need to add images, try to make them as small as possible (e.g. as gif).

Notes

• For the template the css is compiled from less. When changes are needed they can be compiled using lessc lessc main.less or watched using watch-lessc watch-lessc -i main.less -o main.css

Guides on using sphinx

• To make links to certain pages create a link target like so:

    .. _hello_world:
  
    Hello world
    ===========
  
    This is.. (etc.)
  

  The _hello_world: will make it possible to link to this position (page and marker) from all other pages.

• Notes, warnings and alarms

    # a note (use when something is important)
    .. note::
  
    # a warning (orange)
    .. warning::
  
    # danger (red, use sparsely)
    .. danger::
  
  

• Code examples

  Start without $, so it's easy to copy and paste.

Manpages

• To make the manpages, simply run 'make man'. Please note there is a bug in spinx 1.1.3 which makes this fail. Upgrade to the latest version of sphinx.
• Then preview the manpage by running man _build/man/docker.1, where _build/man/docker.1 is the path to the generated manfile
• The manpages are also autogenerated by our hosted readthedocs here: http://docs-docker.dotcloud.com/projects/docker/downloads/