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Add the beginings of a roadmap and faq
Needs expansion, but got to start somewhere... Signed-off-by: Justin Cormack <justin.cormack@docker.com>
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# FAQ
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Please open an issue if you want to add a question here.
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## How do updates work?
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Moby does not require being installed on a disk, it is often run from an ISO, PXE or other
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such means, so it does not require an on disk upgrade method such as the ChromeOS code that
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is often used. It would definitely be possible to use that type of upgrade method if the
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system is installed, and it would be useful to support this for that use case, and an
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updater container to control this for people who want to use this.
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We generally use external tooling such as [Infrakit](https://github.com/docker/infrakit) or
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CloudFormation templates to manage the update process externally from Moby, including
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doing rolling cluster upgrades to make sure distributed applciations stay up and responsive.
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Updates may preserve the state disk used by applications if needed, either on the same physical
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node, or by reattaching a virtual cloud volume to a new node.
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## What do I need to build Moby?
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We have tried to make this as simple as possible, by using containers for the build process, so
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you should be able to build Moby on any OSX or Linux laptop; we should have Windows build support
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soon.
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## Why not use `systemd`?
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In order to keep the system minimal, `systemd` did not seem appropriate, as it brings in a lot
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of dependencies and functionality that we do not need. At present we are using the `busybox`
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`init` process, and a small set of minimal scripts, but we expect to replace that with a small
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standalone `init` process and a small piece of code to bring up the system containers where the
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real work takes place.
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