Expanded README with intro and production notes.

README.md

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 Public Health Schweiz
 =====================
 
-Website of the Swiss Society for Public Health
+New website of the [Swiss Society for Public Health](http://public-health.ch), developed by [Datalets](http://datalets.ch) using the open source, [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/)-based [Wagtail CMS](http://wagtail.io). The frontend has been created using [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com) framework.
 
 ## Development environment
 
-The easiest way to set up your machine would be to use [Vagrant](https://vagrantup.com), then in the project folder in the terminal type:
+The easiest way to set up your machine would be to use [Vagrant](https://vagrantup.com), then in the project folder in the terminal type: `vagrant liverun`.
+
+To set up a full development environment, follow all these instructions.
+
+**Frontend setup**
+
+You will need to have Ruby and SASS installed on your system, e.g.:
 
 ```
-vagrant liverun
+sudo yum install rubygem-sass
 ```
 
+Make sure a recent version of node.js (we recommend using [nave.sh](https://github.com/isaacs/nave)), then:
+
+```
+npm install -g bower grunt-cli
+npm install
+bower install
+```
+
+The first command (`..install -g..`) may require `sudo` if you installed node.js as a system package.
+
+If you are only working on the frontend, you can start a local webserver and work on frontend assets without the backend setup described below. Mock content is at `publichealth/static/mockup`
+
 **Backend setup**
 
-After installing Python 3, from the project folder:
+After installing Python 3, from the project folder, deploy system packages and create a virtual environment as detailed (for Ubuntu users) below:
 
 ```
 sudo apt-get install python3-venv python3-dev libjpeg-dev
+
 pyvenv env
 . env/bin/activate
 
@@ -29,26 +48,10 @@ pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 You will be asked a few questions to create an administrator account.
 
-**Frontend setup**
+**Starting up**
-
-You will need to have Ruby and SASS installed on your system, e.g.:
-
-```
-sudo yum install rubygem-sass
-```
-
-Make sure a recent version of node.js, then:
-
-```
-npm install -g bower grunt-cli
-npm install
-bower install
-```
 
 If you have one installed, also start your local redis server (`service redis start`).
 
-**Starting up**
-
 Run this after completing setup:
 
 ```
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 ## Production notes
 
-We use Ansible for automated deployment. You need to obtain an SSH and vault keys and place these in a `.keys` folder, then:
+We use [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/overview/) for automated deployment.
+
+You need to obtain SSH and vault keys, and place these in a `.keys` folder - then to deploy a site:
 
 ```
-ansible-playbook -s ansible/docker.yaml -i ansible/inventories/production
+ansible-playbook -s ansible/<*.yaml> -i ansible/inventories/production
 ```
+
+We use a StackScript to deploy to Linode, the basic system set up is to have a user in the sudoers and docker group, and a few basic system packages ready.
+
+For example, on Ubuntu:
+
+```
+apt-get install -q -y zip git nginx python-virtualenv python-dev
+```
+
+The order of deployment is:
+
+- docker.yaml (base system)
+- node.yaml
+- site.yaml
+- harden.yaml
+
+For further deployment and system maintenance we have a `Makefile` which automates Docker Compose tasks.