[WIP} Packet platform docs
Work in progress to identify documentation needed for Packet as a linuxkit provider.
-# LinuxKit with bare metal on packet.net
+# LinuxKit with bare metal on Packet
-TBD
+Packet is a bare metal hosting provider.
+
+You will need to have created a Packet account and a project to
+put this new machine into. You will also need to create an API key
+with appropriate permissions to
+
+Linuxkit on Packet boots via iPXE. This requires that you have
+an HTTP server on which you can store your images. At the moment
+there is no equivalent to "linuxkit push" to upload these images,
+so you will have to host them yourself.
## Boot
+`linuxkit run packet -api-key PACKET_API_KEY -base-url http://path-to-my-pxe-boot-server ...`
+
+Servers take several minutes to provision.
+
## Console
+Prepare an SSH public key?
+
## Disks
+Elastic storage, pointer to.
+
## Networking
+Make sure that the interfaces come up bonded?
+
## Integration services and Metadata
