What is this?

This repository contains the docs for each of the Docker official images. See docker-library/official-images for the configuration how the images are built. To see all of the official images go to the hub.

All Markdown files here are run through tianon's fork of markdownfmt (only forked to add some smaller-diff preference and minor DockerHub-compatibility changes), and verified as formatted correctly via Travis-CI.

How do I add a new image's docs

• create a folder for my image: mkdir myimage
• create a README-short.txt (required, 100 char max)
• create a content.md (required)
• create a license.md (required)
• add a logo.png (recommended)
• edit update.sh as needed (see below)

Optionally: (we run this periodically, especially before pushing updated descriptions)

• run ./update.sh myimage to generate myimage/README.md

What are all these files?

update.sh

This is the main script used to generate the README.md files for each image. The generated file is committed along with the files used to generate it (see below on what customizations are available). When a new image is added that is not under the docker-library namespace on GitHub, a new entry must be added to the otherRepos array in this script. Accepted arguments are which image(s) you want to update and no arguments to update all of them.

generate-repo-stub-readme.sh

This is used to generate a simple README.md to put in the image's repo. Argument is the name of the image, like golang and it then outputs the readme to standard out.

push.pl

This is used by us to push the actual content of the READMEs to the Docker Hub as special access is required to modify the Hub description contents.

.template-helpers/generate-dockerfile-links-partial.sh

This script is used by update.sh to create the "Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links" section of each generated README.md from the information in the official-images library/ manifests.

.template-helpers/template.md and .template-helpers/user-feedback.md

These files are the templates used in building the <image name>/README.md file, in combination with the individual image's files.

folder <image name>

This is where all the partial and generated files for a given image reside, (ex: golang/).

<image name>/README.md

This file is generated using update.sh.

<image name>/content.md

This file contains the main content of your image's long description. The basic parts you should have are a "What Is" section and a "How To" section. See the doc on Official Repos for more information on long description. The issues and contribution section is generated by the script but can be overridden. The following is a basic layout:

# What is XYZ?

// about what the contained software is

%%LOGO%%

# How to use this image

// descriptions and examples of common use cases for the image
// make use of subsections as necessary

<image name>/README-short.txt

This is the short description for the docker hub, limited to 100 characters in a single line.

Go (golang) is a general purpose, higher-level, imperative programming language.

<image name>/logo.png

Logo for the contained software. Specifications can be found in the docs on Official Repos

<image name>/license.md

This file should contain a link to the license for the main software in the image. Here is an example for golang:

View [license information](http://golang.org/LICENSE) for the software contained in this image.

<image name>/user-feedback.md

This file is an optional override of the default user-feedback.md for those repositories with different issue and contributing policies.

<image name>/mailing-list.md

This file is snippet that gets inserted into the user feedback section to provide and extra way to get help, like a mailing list. Here is an example from the Postgres image:

on the [mailing list](http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe/) or

Issues and Contributing

If you would like to make a new Official Image, be sure to follow the guidelines and talk to partners@docker.com.

Feel free to make a pull request for fixes and improvements to current documentation. For questions or problems on this repo come talk to us via the #docker-library IRC channel on Freenode or open up an issue.