docs: Improve installation and configuration documentation for non-container use cases

[bmullan]

The current README file says:

The node binary is distributed as a container image or a standalone binary.
To install the binary, download the latest release for your platform and architecture from the releases page. To run the container image, pull the latest image from the GitHub container registry. The examples in this guide will use the image.

I use Ubuntu 22.04 on my machines and a lot of LXD Containers & VMs.

Docker is redundant in purpose/function to LXD and although I could run Docker & Docker apps I'd prefer not to incur that overhead.

So I am interested in trying/installing the webmesh binary.

But the README only gives more information about how to run/configure the Docker image and nothing further about how to run/configure the Binary version. Info like: available command line options etc.

Is there any info about the install/configuration etc of the Binary webmesh?

thanks brian

[tinyzimmer]

The image is just the statically compiled binary copied into a container. All the arguments and everything are the same for both. That could certainly be made more apparent in the README or on the new website (https://webmeshproj.github.io/).

In this vein, though, I want to make some distro packages probably. I run Arch myself and could handle putting together a PKGBUILD - but would be grateful for help with other OSes.

[tinyzimmer]

I've started a place for guides in the new website. This one in particular should hopefully start to make things a bit clearer: https://webmeshproj.github.io/guides/personal-vpn/

[bmullan]

@tinyzimmer That new Guide looks good so far ... thanks!

Brian

[tinyzimmer]

Closing this issue for now to keep things tidy - but feel free to open a new one if you run into any more issues.