GUI Installers! - all these Docker commands and yamls are too error prone during setup!

[guydavis]

While Docker is a powerful platform, allowing Machinaris to run on all sorts of different systems, the current approach of using docker run or docker-compose.yaml is really error prone for new users to get right the first time. This needlessly delays the setup process.

Machinaris needs a cross-platform GUI-installer that will prompt the user for needed information such as:

• Install-mode
• Volume mounts
• Required environment variables

The installer will then either create the Docker compose (or run script), set it to restart automatically, and open the user's browser to the Machinaris site.

[guydavis]

For now, I've added docker-compose.yaml and run scripts for Powershell and Bash to the root folder. Let's see how straight-forward this is for new users.

[digitalspaceport]

I agree the number of issues I have answered on YouTube (bitbybit here) has been clsutered around common-for-docker, yet uncommon-for-layment nomenclature and operational procedures.

[guydavis]

Closing as I chose to go with a Docker run/compose Launch Wizard where a user enters their system details into a form and the required/formatted Docker command is output:

1. For the initial install of Machinaris as a fullnode/controller: https://www.machinaris.app/
2. Once installed, the Workers page offers a similar Launch Wizard:
   
   Values, such as plotting keys, are automatically filled into the form, greatly minimizing the previous effort to hand-type the correct command. Hope this helps all new users of Machinaris!