Docs landing page update

[alyssawada]

What this PR does

Updates the Mimir docs landing page to implement new page design and card grid layout.

Checklist

• Tests updated.
• Documentation added.
• CHANGELOG.md updated - the order of entries should be [CHANGE], [FEATURE], [ENHANCEMENT], [BUGFIX].
• about-versioning.md updated with experimental features.

[CLAassistant]

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[alyssawada]

thanks for cleaning those odds and ends up, @jdbaldry! 🙇

[jdbaldry]

LGTM, thanks for incorporating the changes

[alyssawada]

hey there👋 looks like we need a codeowners review to get this over the line. could someone from @grafana/mimir-maintainers give this a review, please?

[jdbaldry]

Yeah, I don't have write permissions (and don't really want to be part of @grafana/mimir-maintainers to get them because of the number of notifications I'd need to ignore.

I'll post in the #mimir-reviews channel since it should be an easy LGTM.

[krajorama]

this leaves out things and generally looks less impressive to me - was it discussed with PM?

[jdbaldry]

Good question on the copy. @alyssawada I was assuming this came out of a PM discussion but you know what they say about assuming!

[derek-cadzow]

@krajorama This was essentially a training task for me to learn how to do the landing pages, with the intent of updating the descriptive information afterward. I was delayed in handling another issue, but I intend to update the descriptions this week and this will be done in conjunction with the dev team/PM. Thanks for the input though, I'll certainly use it as I update the content. If you've any other suggestions, I'll gladly take them.

[jdbaldry]

Coming back to this, I believe @zhehao-grafana has approved the landing page changes or at least the plan to.

@zhehao-grafana would you like to take a look at the changes in this PR and confirm you are happy with them?

[derek-cadzow]

@zhehao-grafana @krajorama Alternate possibilities for the tiles (these are taken from the web report that shows the Mimir pages most accessed by users):
1 Grafana Mimir configuration parameters
2 Get started with Grafana Mimir (already have this one)
3 Grafana Mimir HTTP API
4. Get started with Grafana Mimir using the Helm chart
5. Grafana Mimir architecture
6. Grafana Mimirtool
7. Grafana Mimir runbooks
8. Set up Mimir

If any of these would be preferred over what's there now, I can change out the existing tiles and update the text with your help and contributions. Of course, any of the tiles can be updated at any time.

[krajorama]

I think this depends on what you want to achieve, easy access to most searched stuff , give overview, promote some features?

[derek-cadzow]

@krajorama The main objective in the change to the new landing page layout is to help users find information, so the tiles are meant to be a navigational aid to the information they're looking for (which will save them time searching for it). In the old format, the landing page had more marketing-type information, which doesn't work when someone is coming to these pages to find out how to do something (and sometimes needs to find it quickly!)

[krajorama]

I think this is better, but I think we should also highlight OpenTelemetry and ingestion. Also looking for PM feedback from @zhehao-grafana

[knylander-grafana]

Approving, with one wording change suggestion.

[krajorama]

./configure/about-configurations/ isn't about Helm, Puppet etc, it's just a page explaining the YAML configuration

[tacole02]

It seems like we're currently grouping the "Set up" and "Configure" docs together here and perhaps conflating the content of these two sections. I'm going to split them into two separate tiles.

[tacole02]

@alyssawada I'm happy to take this issue on 😄

[tacole02]

@krajorama I've updated this PR based on your feedback. Please let me know how it looks!