We provide prebuilt images to...

• ... get you started quickly
• ... speed up your deployment
• ... help you, if you having problems compiling it yourself

First, you need to go to the releases page. The files are labeled like architecture-platform.zip, where architecture is x86_64 or i386, and platform is docker, img, iso, or qemu.

After you downloaded your desired package, you can just unzip it and and run it. For the img and iso platforms, you get:

bootfs.(img|iso)
run.sh      <-- you need to run this
usersfs.img

For qemu, you get:

initramfs.cpio.gz
kernel
README.md
run.sh      <-- you need to run this
usersfs.img

And for docker, it's pretty much the same:

barebones.tar.gz
Dockerfile
initramfs.tar.gz
README.md
run.sh     <-- you need to run this
usersfs.tar.gz

Overall, it's very simple to deploy NodeOS. If you want to build NodeOS from source, take a look at Building From Source.