3 files changed, 64 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/Dockerfile b/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/Dockerfile
index 72b699fbdd..8de0d46f65 100644
--- a/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/Dockerfile
+++ b/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
-FROM debian:stable
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make python-sphinx python-recommonmark python-sphinx-rtd-theme git && apt-get clean
-USER nobody
+FROM alpine:3.8
+
+COPY makeSphinx.sh /makeSphinx.sh
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache python3 make bash git \
+ && pip3 install --upgrade --no-cache-dir pip \
+ && pip3 install --no-cache-dir  \
+    sphinx===1.7.7 \
+    sphinx_rtd_theme===0.4.1 \
+    recommonmark===0.4.0 \
+    sphinx_autobuild===0.7.1 \
+ && chmod 755 /makeSphinx.sh
+
 VOLUME /data-in /data-out
-ENTRYPOINT bash -c "cd /data-in/Documentation && make sphinx BUILDDIR=/tmp/build && rm -rf /data-out/* && mv /tmp/build/html/* /data-out/"
+
+# For Sphinx-autobuild
+# Port 8000 - HTTP server
+# Port 35729 - websockets connection to allow automatic browser reloads after each build
+EXPOSE 8000 35729
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "/makeSphinx.sh"]
+CMD []
diff --git a/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/README.md b/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/README.md
index 11c095d18e..d5d483eeba 100644
--- a/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/README.md
+++ b/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@
-How to use:
+# doc.coreboot.org
+ Docker container for generating and developing documentation for doc.coreboot.org
 
-docker run --rm -v $path-to-coreboot.git:/data-in:ro -v $path-to-html-output:/data-out $image
+**NOTE**: All paths are from the base of the coreboot git repo.
+
+### Build
+
+```sh
+  docker build --force-rm -t "doc.coreboot.org" "$PWD/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/"
+```
+
+### Generating production HTML
+
+```sh
+# To ensure the output directory is given the correct permissions, make sure to
+# created it before running docker the first time.
+mkdir -p "$PWD/Documentation/_build/"
+
+docker run -it --rm \
+           --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
+           -v "$PWD/:/data-in/:ro" \
+           -v "$PWD/Documentation/_build/:/data-out/" \
+           doc.coreboot.org
+```
+
+### live reloaded with web server
+On the host machine, open a browser to the address http://0.0.0.0:8000
+```sh
+docker run -it --rm \
+           --net=host -v "$PWD/:/data-in/:ro" \
+           doc.coreboot.org livehtml
+```
diff --git a/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/makeSphinx.sh b/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/makeSphinx.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..3b0c4e336f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/docker/doc.coreboot.org/makeSphinx.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$1" == "livehtml" ]; then
+  echo "Starting live documentation build"
+  cd /data-in/Documentation && make livesphinx BUILDDIR=/tmp/build
+else
+  echo "Starting production documentation build"
+  cd /data-in/Documentation \
+    && make sphinx BUILDDIR=/tmp/build \
+    && rm -rf /data-out/* \
+    && mv /tmp/build/html/* /data-out/
+fi