Docker Lab Documentation

Public documentation for Docker Lab -- production-grade Docker Compose infrastructure for commodity VPS deployments.

Live site:peermesh.github.io/docker-lab-docs

Quick Start

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/peermesh/docker-lab-docs.git
cd docker-lab-docs
# Create virtual environment (recommended)
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Start local dev server
mkdocs serve

The docs site will be available at http://localhost:8000.

Project Structure

docker-lab-docs/
├── mkdocs.yml # Site configuration
├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
├── docs/ # Documentation source
│ ├── index.md # Landing page
│ ├── introduction.md # Ch 1: Introduction
│ ├── concepts.md # Ch 2: Concepts
│ ├── quick-start.md # Ch 3: Quick Start
│ ├── foundation-stack.md # Ch 4: Foundation Stack
│ ├── profiles.md # Ch 5: Profiles
│ ├── security.md # Ch 6: Security
│ ├── deployment.md # Ch 7: Deployment
│ ├── dashboard.md # Ch 8: Dashboard
│ ├── multi-instance.md # Ch 9: Multi-Instance
│ ├── observability.md # Ch 10: Observability
│ ├── extending.md # Ch 11: Extending
│ ├── use-cases.md # Ch 12: Use Cases
│ ├── limitations.md # Ch 13: Limitations
│ ├── reference.md # Ch 14: Reference
│ ├── assets/ # Static assets
│ └── diagrams/ # Excalidraw source files
├── overrides/ # Theme overrides
└── scripts/ # Dev utilities

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. To contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b docs/your-topic)
3. Make your changes
4. Submit a pull request

Please ensure all markdown follows proper heading hierarchy and builds without warnings (mkdocs build --strict).

License

This documentation is released under the MIT License.