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CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+We highly value and encourage contributions from the community!
+
+Reignite is [MPL-2.0 licensed](LICENSE) and accepts contributions via GitHub
+Pull Requests.This document outlines some of the conventions on development
+workflow, commit message formatting, contact points and other resources to make
+it easier to get your contribution accepted.
+
+We gratefully welcome improvements to documentation as well as to code.
+
+## Guidelines
+
+If you have a feature suggestion or found a bug, head over to
+[GitHub issues][issues] and see if there's an open issue matching your
+description. If not feel free to open a new issue and add short description:
+
+ - In case of a bug, be sure to include the steps you performed and what Reignite responded so it's easy for others to reproduce 
+- If you have a feature suggestion, describe it in moderate detail and include some potential uses you see for the feature.
+
+We prioritize the features to be implemented based on their usefulness/popularity. Of course if you want to start contributing yourself, go ahead! We'll be more than happy to review your pull requests.
+
+The maintainers will add the correct labels/milestones to the issue for you.
+
+[issues]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/issues
+
+### Contributing your code
+
+The process to contribute code to Reignite is very straightforward.
+
+1. Go to the project on [GitHub][repo] and click the `Fork` button in the
+   top-right corner. This will create your own copy of the repository in your
+   personal account.
+2. Using standard `git` workflow, `clone` your fork, make your changes and then
+   `commit` and `push` them to your repository.
+3. Run `make generate && make test && make lint`, then `commit` and `push` the changes.
+4. Go back to [GitHub][repo], select `Pull requests` from the top bar and click
+   `New pull request` to the right. Select the `compare across forks` link.
+   This will show repositories in addition to branches.
+5. From the `head repository` dropdown, select your forked repository. If you
+   made a new branch, select it in the `compare` dropdown. You should always
+   target `weaveworks/reignite` and `main` as the base repository and branch.
+6. With your changes visible, click `Create pull request`. Give it a short,
+   descriptive title and write a comment describing your changes. Click `Create
+   pull request`.
+
+That's it! Maintainers follow pull requests closely and will add the correct
+labels and milestones. After a maintainer's review small changes/improvements
+could be requested, don't worry, feedback can be easily addressed by performing
+the requested changes and doing a commit and push. Your new changes will
+automatically be added to the pull request.
+
+We also have Continuous Integration (CI) set up (powered by [GitHub
+Actions][gha]) that will build the code and verify it compiles and passes all
+tests successfully. If your changes didn't pass CI, you can click Details to go
+and check why it happened. To integrate your changes, we require CI to pass.
+
+[repo]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite
+[gha]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/actions

README.md

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-# reignite - the spawn of ignite
-(Re)Ignite a MicroVM
+
+# 🆁🅴🅸🅶🅽🅸🆃🅴 - the microvm service
+
+[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/license/weaveworks/reignite)](https://img.shields.io/github/license/weaveworks/reignite)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/weaveworks/reignite/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=ZNPNRDI8Z0)](https://codecov.io/gh/weaveworks/reignite)
+[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/weaveworks/reignite)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/weaveworks/reignite)
+
+## What is regnite?
+
+Reignite is a service for creating and managing the lifecycle of microVMs on a host machine. Initially we will be supporting [Firecracker](https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/). 
+
+The primary use case for reignite is to create microVMs on a bare-metal host where the microVMs will be used as nodes in a virtualized Kubernetes cluster. It is an essential part of [Liquid Metal](https://www.weave.works/blog/multi-cluster-kubernetes-on-microvms-for-bare-metal) and will ultimately be driven by Cluster API Provider Microvm (coming soon).
+
+## Features
+
+Using API requests (via gRPC or HTTP):
+- Create, update, delete microVMs using Firecracker
+- Manage the lifecycle of microVMs (i.e. start, stop, pause)
+- Make metadata available to microVMs to support cloud-init, ignition etc
+- Use OCI images for the volumes, kernel & initrd
+- (coming soon) Use CNI to configure the network for the microVMs
+
+## Documentation
+
+See our [getting started with reignite][quickstart] guide.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome. Please read the [CONTRIBUTING.md][contrib] and our [Code Of Conduct][coc].
+
+Other interesting resources include:
+
+* [The issue tracker][issues]
+* [The list of milestones][milestones]
+* [Architectural Decision Records (ADR)][adr]
+* [Getting started with reignite][quickstart]
+
+## Getting Help
+
+If you have any questions about, feedback for or problems with reignite:
+
+* [File an issue][issues].
+
+Your feedback is always welcome!
+
+## License
+
+[MPL-2.0 License][license]
+
+
+[quickstart]: ./docs/quick-start.md
+[contrib]: ./CONTRIBUTING.md
+[coc]: ./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
+[issues]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/issues
+[milestones]: https://github.com/weaveworks/reignite/milestones
+[adr]: ./docs/adr
+[license]: ./LICENSE

docs/quick-start.md

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 # Getting started with reignite
 
+## On MacOS
+
+You can use Vagrant:
+
+```
+vagrant up
+```
+
+It will create a new pre-configured machine ready to use.
+
 ## Containerd
 
 ### Create thinpool