The guide is written in Markdown and rendered through the mkdocs
tool.
The file mkdocs.yml
is the configuration file that describes the organisation and settings for the document generation.
The documentation is rendered with the Material Theme.
To avoid the need for a local installation of the mkdocs tooling and the Material for MkDocs theme, we have some local helper scripts that use a docker image squidfunk/mkdocs-material
for this tooling.
serve
The script ./serve
is used for local development of the docs - using the squidfunk/mkdocs-material
docker image to invoke a local server to render the 'live' content from the docs/
subdirectory.
The local document is served from http://localhost:8000/.
The GitHub Action at .github/workflows/main.yml
is triggered on each commit pushed to origin/main
to build the documentation to the branch gh-pages
from where it is published.
The contents of the gh-pages
branch are published via the domain deployment-guide.docs.eoepca.org
.
This is achieved by the steps:
gh-pages
branch and using the domain deployment-guide.docs.eoepca.org
deployment-guide.docs.eoepca.org
docs/CNAME
with the domain namepublish
This script is used to invoke publishing of the docs under a given version - by default the version current
.
Mkdocs is configured to support versioning by using the mike
plugin.
Examples
Publish to current
version, and update the latest
alias to point to this...
./publish current latest
Publish to v1.x
version...
./publish v1.x
mike
mike
via dockerserve-published
gh-pages
branch