2026-05-12 20:59:24 <ncopa> I'm working a bit on the user-handbook
2026-05-12 21:44:03 <durrendal> Thanks for merging the update I made a while back, let me know if you need/want help or have ideas for pagea you'd like to see. Happy to jump in
2026-05-13 08:04:43 <ncopa> im thinking that target audience is experienced linux users, and we should adapt the docs to that
2026-05-13 08:05:10 <ncopa> remove things that dont need to be there
2026-05-13 08:18:24 <ncopa> i also think how to burn a cdrom can be removed. who uses cdrom nowadays?
2026-05-13 08:18:59 <ncopa> and I think the answerfile and overlay files should be marked as deprecated or removed. we should document and encourage tiny-cloud instead
2026-05-13 08:20:09 <ncopa> i also think we should have branches per alpine release. 3.23-stable branch, master
2026-05-13 08:20:51 <ncopa> so you can read the handbook at v3.24 even when latest is v3.26
2026-05-13 15:22:09 <Sertonix[m]> ncopa: Does tiny-cloud support automated installation for non-cloud use cases?
2026-05-13 15:25:24 <Sertonix[m]> ncopa: And a banner for which version the current page is
2026-05-13 15:30:27 <durrendal> overlay files should be marked deprecated: you mean using lbu and ovl tarballs?
2026-05-13 20:55:17 <ncopa> yes, tiny-cloud has initial support for automated install with the release iso. just add a volume (cdrom, disk image) with vfat with LABEL=cidata and add a user-data file there
2026-05-13 20:55:37 <ncopa> can be a #!/bin/sh script or a nocloud user-data yaml
2026-05-13 20:58:35 <ncopa> the answerfiles and overlay stuff has not had any active development for the last 10 years
2026-05-13 21:00:36 <durrendal> that's fair, but is tinycloud actually a replacement for what lbu does for run from ram nodes?
2026-05-13 21:02:17 <durrendal> we should probably also document cloud-init usage alongside tinycloud since we offer both as AMIs
2026-05-18 03:37:58 <durrendal> alpine-infra