singularityware
Feature/getting started improvements
I found the quick start frustrating because I had no idea how to create an image.
I eventually found a simple recipe in the repo's README.md.
This PR duplicates it in the quick start section. It's CentOS specific but it gives pointers to additional info and discussion.
Also, minor edits so that all of the examples showed similar shell prompts.
I built a CentOS image because the rest of the examples on that page refer to a CentOS image.
I think that you're suggesting above that instead of providing an example that uses bootstrap to build the CentOS image (which only works easily on a CentOS host) I might provide an example that builds a Quick Start CentOS image by importing docker://centos.
I can see how that would be more generically useful. I'll rework this tonight.
Sweet! Yes I love it. Showing after that the bootstrap spec would still be ok, because the user would see that there are many ways to skin a cat.
The common use of centOS is because there is this weird guy (cough cough @gmkurtzer) that like, made it or something? He's wandering the halls of documentation for Singularity and putting it everywhere... we should find him and give him some oatmeal or something. :p
I'll see what I can whip up over the weekend.
I'm all about CentOS at work (and FreeBSD when I let my hair down) but I do like to keep an open mind....
I hope your mind is open... my go to is Ubuntu! I'm pretty sure it's just because it's purple. :purple_heart:
Beastie's usually red, but it's open minded too... 😈 .
This update calls out some of the other Linuxes too.
hey @hartzell do you still want to make these changes? If you want to rebase with master (or PR to docs/2.4 is relevant) we can revisit.
Hi @vsoch -- Yes, I'll pick this back up. I'm working on this sporadically for now. I appreciate your patience.
Of course! There really isn't a rush, I just wanted to touch bases. Chat when we do! :)