Documentation site not indexed by search engines

[colinodell]

TL;DR: Content from https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/ cannot be found using popular search engines.

I expected to be able to find appropriate documentation pages like https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/references/kustomize/kustomization/ when searching for things like kustomization reference on Google. However, I'm unable to find results for this site when I run searches like:

• https://www.google.com/search?q=kustomization+reference
• https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Akubectl.docs.kubernetes.io
• https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Akubectl.docs.kubernetes.io (XML files only; no HTML results)

I believe this is happening because of this meta tag in the HTML:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

It looks like this is only supposed to appear when HUGO_ENV != production:

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cli-experimental/blob/3445a582efe9308f4f81bd6da23ad092e9e89d92/site/themes/docsy/layouts/partials/head.html#L4-L8

So maybe the build environment is failing to set this env var correctly?

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[colinodell]

This issue is still present and worth fixing

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