docs/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Stack Orchestrator
+
+Here you will find information about the design of stack orchestrator, contributing to it, and deploying services/applications that combine two or more "stacks".
+
+Most "stacks" contain their own README which has plenty of information on deploying, but stacks can be combined in a variety of ways which are document here, for example:
+
+- [Gitea with Laconicd Fixturenet](./gitea-with-laconicd-fixturenet.md)
+- [Laconicd Registry with Console](./laconicd-with-console.md)

docs/cli.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Sub-commands and flags
 
 Clone a single repository:
 ```
-$ laconic-so setup-repositories --include cerc-io/go-ethereum
+$ laconic-so setup-repositories --include github.com/cerc-io/go-ethereum
 ```
 Clone the repositories for a stack:
 ```

docs/gitea-with-laconicd-fixturenet.md

@@ -1,60 +1,37 @@
-# Using SO to deploy Gitea then start a Laconicd fixturenet
+# Gitea x NPMs X Laconicd
 
-## Build Support Stack
+Deploy a local Gitea server, publish NPM packages to it, then use those packages to build a Laconicd fixturenet. Demonstrates several components of the Laconic stack
 
-JS/TS/NPM builds need an npm registry to store intermediate package artifacts.
-This can be supplied by the user (e.g. using a hosted registry or even npmjs.com), or a local registry using gitea can be deployed by stack orchestrator.
-To use a user-supplied registry set these environment variables:
+### Build and Deploy Gitea
 
-`CERC_NPM_REGISTRY_URL` and 
-`CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN`
-
-Leave `CERC_NPM_REGISTRY_URL` un-set to use the local gitea registry.
-
-### Build support containers
-
-Note: the scheme/gerbil container is excluded as it isn't currently required for the package registry.
-
-```
-laconic-so --stack build-support build-containers --exclude cerc/builder-gerbil
-```
-
-### Deploy Gitea Package Registry
-
-```
+```bash
+laconic-so --stack build-support build-containers
 laconic-so --stack package-registry setup-repositories
 laconic-so --stack package-registry build-containers 
 laconic-so --stack package-registry deploy up
 ```
-```
-[+] Running 3/3
- ⠿ Network laconic-aecc4a21d3a502b14522db97d427e850_gitea       Created                                                                                    0.0s
- ⠿ Container laconic-aecc4a21d3a502b14522db97d427e850-db-1      Started                                                                                    1.2s
- ⠿ Container laconic-aecc4a21d3a502b14522db97d427e850-server-1  Started                                                                                    1.9s
-New user 'gitea_admin' has been successfully created!
-This is your gitea access token: 84fe66a73698bf11edbdccd0a338236b7d1d5c45. Keep it safe and secure, it can not be fetched again from gitea.
-To use with laconic-so set this environment variable: export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=3e493e77b3e83fe9e882f7e3a79dd4d5441c308b
-Created the organization cerc-io
-Gitea was configured to use host name: gitea.local, ensure that this resolves to localhost, e.g. with sudo vi /etc/hosts
-Success, gitea is properly initialized
-```
 
-Note: the above commands can take several minutes depending on the specs of your machine.
+These commands can take awhile. Eventually, some instructions and a token will output. Set `CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN`:
+
+```bash
+export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-token>
+```
 
 ### Configure the hostname gitea.local
 
 How to do this depends on your operating system  but usually involves editing a `hosts` file. For example, on Linux add this line to the file `/etc/hosts` (needs sudo):
 
-```
+```bash
 127.0.0.1       gitea.local
 ```
 
 Test with:
 
-```
+```bash
 ping gitea.local
 ```
-```
+
+```bash
 PING gitea.local (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.147 ms
 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.033 ms
@@ -62,44 +39,42 @@ PING gitea.local (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 
 Although not necessary in order to build and publish packages, you can now access the Gitea web interface at: [http://gitea.local:3000](http://gitea.local:3000) using these credentials: `gitea_admin/admin1234` (Note: please properly secure Gitea if public internet access is allowed).
 
-Now npm packages can be built:
-
 ### Build npm Packages
 
-Next, clone the required repositories:
+Clone the required repositories:
 
-```
+```bash
 laconic-so --stack fixturenet-laconicd setup-repositories
 ```
 
-Ensure that `CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN` is set with the token printed above when the package-registry stack was deployed (the actual token value will be different than shown in this example):
+Build and publish the npm packages:
 
-```
-export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=84fe66a73698bf11edbdccd0a338236b7d1d5c45
-```
-
-```
+```bash
 laconic-so --stack fixturenet-laconicd build-npms
 ```
 
-Navigate to the Gitea console and switch to the `cerc-io` user then find the `Packages` tab to confirm that these two npm packages have been published.
+Navigate to the Gitea console and switch to the `cerc-io` user then find the `Packages` tab to confirm that these two npm packages have been published:
 
-### Build fixturenet containers
+- `@cerc-io/laconic-registry-cli`
+- `@cerc-io/laconic-sdk`
 
-```
+### Build and deploy fixturenet containers
+
+```bash
 laconic-so --stack fixturenet-laconicd build-containers
+laconic-so --stack fixturenet-laconicd deploy up
 ```
 
 Check the logs:
 
-```
+```bash
 laconic-so --stack fixturenet-laconicd deploy logs
 ```
 
 ### Test with the registry CLI
 
-```
+```bash
 laconic-so --stack fixturenet-laconicd deploy exec cli "laconic cns status"
 ```
 
-Try additional CLI commands, documented [here](https://github.com/cerc-io/laconic-registry-cli#operations). Note that in order to publish records, you'll need to `docker cp` the `watcher.yml` file.
+Try additional CLI commands, documented [here](https://github.com/cerc-io/laconic-registry-cli#operations).

docs/spec.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Specification
 
-(note this page is out of date)
-
+Note: this page is out of date (but still useful) - it will no longer be useful once stacks are [decoupled from the tool functionality](https://github.com/cerc-io/stack-orchestrator/issues/315).
 
 ## Implementation