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What this is

A scaffold for the team to review — IA option 1 for the docs restructure. It builds on the information-architecture work in #3407 and adds a reworked Get Started section. Draft, not for merge: the net-new pages hold placeholder text so we can evaluate the structure before writing real content.

This option focuses on Get Started only. It does not add a new top-level section.

The Get Started rework

The current Get Started section bundles three jobs — onboarding, first build, and migration — and migration dominates. This option reframes it as an orientation-and-first-build on-ramp that treats Chainguard Containers and Chainguard Libraries as two co-equal paths. It follows the plan in get-started-balanced-docs.md.

New pages (placeholder Lorem ipsum):

  • What is Chainguard? — a conceptual front door covering both containers and libraries.
  • Key concepts and terminology — one glossary spanning both pillars.
  • Quickstart: pull and run your first container — a stack-agnostic hello-world.
  • Landing page rewritten as a "pick your path" router: build with containers, build with libraries, evaluate trust, or migrate.

Cross-links to already-published docs (using the existing sidebar cross-link mechanism, so nothing is duplicated):

  • Containers Examples gains an "Authenticate to the registry" link.
  • A new Libraries Examples subsection links to the existing quickstart, access, network-requirements, and how-libraries-help-developers pages.

How to review

Read it as a structure proposal, not finished copy. The questions for the team:

  • Does the two-pillar (containers + libraries) framing of Get Started work?
  • Is the page set and ordering right?
  • Should anything here move, merge, or split?

Notes

  • Libraries cover Java, Python, and JavaScript only; containers cover more stacks. The landing page and "What is Chainguard?" should state this rather than imply parity.
  • Diff scope: this PR targets main, so it includes the full IA restructure from Split Product Docs into Get Started, Chainguard Products, and Platform & Tools #3407 plus a merge of the latest upstream main. The changes unique to this option are the six files under content/get-started/.

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SharpRake and others added 14 commits June 9, 2026 23:11
…m & Tools

Rework the docs left-nav IA: the single crowded "Product Docs" section
(14 buckets) becomes three top-level sections.

- content/get-started/ ("Get Started") — self-serve and migration
- content/chainguard/ ("Chainguard Products", URL unchanged) — Containers,
  Libraries, VMs, OS, Repository, Factory
- content/platform/ ("Platform & Tools") — Administration, Integrations,
  FIPS, API Reference, chainctl Usage, chainctl Reference

Also: drop "Chainguard" from each product bucket's sidebar label via
linktitle (full title kept for headings and SEO); tighten sidebar
spacing so leaf and expandable rows share one rhythm; repoint the
AutoDocs integration action and homepage links to the new paths; add
aliases on hand-authored moved pages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
# Conflicts:
#	content/platform/administration/cloudevents/events-reference.md
Create a new "Console" bucket under Chainguard Products and move the
Console walkthrough and Notifications guides into it:

- content/chainguard/console/images-directory
- content/chainguard/console/use-chainguard-notifications

Both pages keep aliases to their old how-to-use URLs. Reweight
Repository and OS so the section order is Containers, Libraries, VMs,
Repository, Console, OS, Factory. Repoint inbound links across the docs
to the new /chainguard/console/ paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
Relocate getting-started-with-chainctl from Platform & Tools to a
top-level item in the Get Started bucket, ordered between Self-serve and
Migration. Keep its published /chainguard/chainctl-usage/ alias and
repoint inbound links to the new /get-started/ path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
…work

# Conflicts:
#	content/get-started/migration/migration-checklist.md
#	content/get-started/migration/migration-tips.md
#	content/platform/administration/cloudevents/events-reference.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_iam_external-group-role-mappings.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_iam_external-group-role-mappings_create.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_iam_external-group-role-mappings_delete.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_iam_external-group-role-mappings_list.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_packages.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_packages_blocked.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_binding.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_binding_create.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_binding_delete.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_binding_list.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_binding_update.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_create.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_delete.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_describe.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_disable.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_enable.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_list.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_policy-gate_update.md
…ions

Move the Chainguard Factory bucket from Chainguard Products into
Platform & Tools, adding aliases from the old /chainguard/factory/
URLs and repointing internal and inbound links to /platform/factory/.

Reweight both sections so their buckets render in alphabetical order:
Chainguard Products (Console, Containers, Libraries, OS, Repository,
VMs) and Platform & Tools (Administration, API Reference, chainctl
Reference, chainctl Usage, Chainguard Factory, FIPS, Integrations).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
Brings in Chainguard Agent Skills docs (chainguard-dev#3395), pnpm trustPolicy
limitation (chainguard-dev#3424), cosign fix (chainguard-dev#3423), and AutoDocs/API regen.

Conflict resolution (AutoDocs-generated chainctl reference): upstream
renamed `chainctl libraries policy-gate` to `chainctl libraries policy`
and added `chainctl actions catalog/list`. Accepted upstream's
regenerated, url-pinned files at our moved content/platform/ path and
dropped the superseded policy-gate files. No aliases (url-pinned).

Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
…urce

Move the Console bucket from Chainguard Products to Platform & Tools
(/chainguard/console/ -> /platform/console/), placed alphabetically at
weight 050; shift Factory, FIPS, and Integrations down to make room.
Repoint 13 inbound links across 11 files. Swap the top-level section
weights so Compliance sits above Open Source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
…ducts

Set weight 010 so the bucket sorts first in the section, and normalize
the camelCase linkTitle key to linktitle to match the sibling buckets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
# Conflicts:
#	content/platform/administration/custom-idps/idp-providers/okta/okta-1.png
#	content/platform/administration/custom-idps/idp-providers/okta/okta-2.png
#	content/platform/administration/custom-idps/idp-providers/okta/okta-3.png
#	content/platform/administration/custom-idps/idp-providers/okta/okta-4-5.png
#	content/platform/administration/custom-idps/idp-providers/okta/okta-6.png
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_images_helm_refs.md
Render a `crosslinks` list of {title, url} pairs from a section or
subsection _index.md as pointer entries in the sidebar, with an
external-link icon and working active-state. Cross-links are pointers,
not copies: one canonical page, one URL.

First use: a new get-started/containers-examples subsection pointing at
the nginx, PostgreSQL, Python, and Go getting-started guides, plus a
cross-link from Compliance to Selecting a Base Image.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
…base

# Conflicts:
#	.github/actions/integrate-platform-docs/action.yaml
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_artifacts.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_artifacts_count.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_artifacts_list.md
#	content/platform/chainctl/chainctl-docs/chainctl_libraries_artifacts_versions.md
#	content/platform/integrations/kiro.md
Implements the suggestions from get-started-balanced-docs.md as a
reviewable scaffold. Net-new docs use Lorem ipsum placeholders; on-ramp
docs that map to published content are wired as sidebar cross-links.

Net-new (placeholder):
- What is Chainguard? — conceptual front door for both pillars
- Key concepts and terminology — one glossary spanning containers + libraries
- Quickstart: pull and run your first container — stack-agnostic hello-world
- _index.md rewritten as a "pick your path" router

Cross-links to published content:
- Containers Examples: + "Authenticate to the registry"
- New Libraries Examples subsection: quickstart, access, network
  requirements, how-libraries-help-developers

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Drake <mark@chainguard.dev>
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@SharpRake SharpRake changed the title [IA option 1] Balanced Get Started on-ramp (scaffold for review) [WIP, DO NOT MERGE] [IA option 1] Balanced Get Started on-ramp Jun 26, 2026
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superseded by: #3499

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