Adding Already Existing Documentation

Overview

In order to add GitHub documentation to the website that is hosted outside of the main repository, you need to make changes to the central manifest. You can usually find it in the <organization-name>/<repo-name>/.docforge/ folder, for example gardener/documentation/.docforge.

Sample codeblock:

- dir: machine-controller-manager
  structure:
  - file: _index.md
    frontmatter:
      title: Machine Controller Manager
      weight: 1
      description: Declarative way of managing machines for Kubernetes cluster
    source: https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager/blob/master/README.md
  - fileTree: https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager/tree/master/docs

This short code snippet adds a whole repository worth of content and contains examples of some of the most important elements:

• - dir: <dir-name> - the name of the directory in the navigation path
• structure: - required after using dir; shows that the following lines contain a file structure
• - file: _index.md - the content will be a single file; also creates an index file
• frontmatter: - allows for manual setting/overwriting of the various properties a file can have
• source: <link> - where the content for the file element is located
• - fileTree: <link> - the content will be a whole folder; also gives the location of the content

Check the Notes and Tips section for useful advice when making changes to the manifest files.

Adding Existing Documentation

You can use the following templates in order to add documentation to the website that exists in other GitHub repositories.

Note

Proper indentation is incredibly important, as yaml relies on it for nesting!

Adding a Single File

You can add a single topic to the website by providing a link to it in the manifest.

- dir: <dir-name>
  structure:
  - file: <file-name>
    frontmatter:
      title: <topic-name>
      description: <topic-description>
      weight: <weight>
    source: https://github.com/<path>/<file>

- dir: dashboard
  structure:
  - file: _index.md
    frontmatter:
      title: Dashboard
      description: The web UI for managing your projects and clusters
      weight: 3
    source: https://github.com/gardener/dashboard/blob/master/README.md

Adding Multiple Files

You can also add multiple topics to the website at once, either through linking a whole folder or a manifest than contains the documentation structure.

Note

If the content you want to add does not have an _index.md file in it, it won’t show up as a single section on the website. You can fix this by adding the following after the structure: element:

- file: _index.md
  frontmatter:
    title: <topic-name>
    description: <topic-description>
    weight: <weight>

Linking a Folder

  - dir: <dir-name>
    structure:
    - fileTree: https://github.com/<path>/<folder>

  - dir: development
    structure:
    - fileTree: https://github.com/gardener/gardener/tree/master/docs/development

Linking a Manifest File

- dir: <dir-name>
  structure:
  - manifest: https://github.com/<path>/manifest.yaml

- dir: extensions
  structure:
  - manifest: https://github.com/gardener/documentation/blob/master/.docforge/documentation/gardener-extensions/gardener-extensions.yaml

Notes and Tips

• If you want to place a file inside of an already existing directory in the main repo, you need to create a dir element that matches its name. If one already exists, simply add your link to its structure element.
• You can chain multiple files, folders, and manifests inside of a single structure element.
• For examples of frontmatter elements, see the Style Guide.