Development Environment

[dominicrutk]

The process of setting up the development environment is currently very convoluted. This is an open-ended issue we could address in a few ways:

• Improved documentation
  The documentation feels sort of disorganized and complicated—especially to a new developer. A more centralized set of docs could improve this. Perhaps we could use GitHub's wiki functionality.
• Quick-start script
  We could create a "quick start" script for getting a simple development environment up and running. It would automatically build the Docker image, create a container, generate system and machine config files, install and enable SSH, generate an SSH key, generate an SSL certificate, and create a user account for the web dashboard. This would allow the developer to easily start working and testing backups on localhost. All that he/she would have to do is enter an email and password for testing the backup summary email.

[dominicrutk]

Added lots of new documentation in https://github.com/bioneos/alcove/commit/31c9ae5a471ce6d82863f2730fa6220e931ebe3b. We can still discuss creating a script to automatically set up a development environment.