# Portainer Admin Guides and Documentation This repository contains the Portainer v1.x, v2.x and futures versions documentation. ## Contributing We welcome and encourage community contributions. For information about contributing to the Portainer documentation, see [Contribution guidelines](contributing.md). The [issues](https://github.com/portainer/portainer-docs/issues) of this repo is the place to manage our To Do. We encourage you to see what has to be done, take a task and contribute. ## Running the docs locally 1. [**Clone this repository**](https://help.github.com/articles/cloning-a-repository/) to your local machine. 2. **Install Mkdocs** The Portainer Documentation uses [MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/). MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. Install MkDocs using the following [installation guide](https://www.mkdocs.org/#installation) 3. **Install Material Theme** pip install mkdocs-material 4. **Start MkDocs Server** Multiple sites are hosted in this repository, if you are contributing for v2.0, navigate to the folder `v2.0` and start MkDocs Server running: mkdocs serve