wenhuwang/docs.kubesphere.io

KubeSphere Documents

Documentation for KubeSphere.

Prerequisites

We recomend you to install the following 3 dependent softwares:

• git
• node.js
• yarn (or npm, we recommend yarn)

Then check if these prerequisites have been installed successfully.

$ git --version
git version 2.21.0
$ node -v
v10.15.1
$ yarn -v
1.15.2

Fork it

Clone to your local

Then you are ready to go:

$ git clone https://github.com/{$YOUR_GITHUB_ACCOUNT}/docs.kubesphere.io.git

Compile it locally

$ cd docs.kubesphere.io

$ yarn

$ yarn develop

Then you can preview the documentation website using http://localhost:8000/.

Contribute

All of documents are left in content/language/folder, see the tree of this documentation repo:

├── content                                       // documents directory
│   ├── en                                   // documents language - English version
│   │   └── quick-start                      // document folder
│   │           └── admin-quick-start.md     // document
│   │           └── xxxx.md
│   ├── zh-CN                                // documents language - Chinese version
│   │   └── quick-start                      // document folder
│   │           └── admin-quick-start.md     // document
│   │           └── xxxx.md
│   ├── toc_en.json                         // table of contents, define the page navigation, this json file is for English version of navigation.
│   └── toc_zh-CN.json                      // this json file is for Chinese version of navigation.
├── src                                          // source code

Contribute to documentation

We hope for your contribution to KubeSphere documentation, also we believe you are able to improve the current docs, add your practical guides, or fix mistaken words, it's quite easy to commit your first PR to this repository by following these steps.

Modify document

For example, if we want to modify a quick start guide (e.g. admin-quick-start.md) as following, take a look at the URL of this guide, the path /en/quick-start/admin-quick-start/ means the markdown file location, thus you'll be able to edit it within this repo locally.

Expand the path /en/quick-start/admin-quick-start/, then edit the admin-quick-start.md, save it after modification, and then using git to commit your changes to remote.

Commit your PR

$ git add .                                 // Add your local changes
$ git commit -s -m "comment your changes"  // Commit with your comment
$ git push origin master                  // Push to your remote repo

After above steps done, open a new Pull Request in GitHub:

When PR has been created, you should preview your changes and verify it in the Netlify notification as following, click the Details button near Deploy preview ready! to preview your changes in browser.

Edit navigation

Navigation is corresponding to the directory on the left, if you'd like to add a new document or modify the title within directory, just modify the content in content/toc_en.json or content/toc_zh-CN.json.

Attention: make sure you can compile it successfully using command yarn develop if you change the navigation json file.

navigation file example

• chapters: nav items
• title: nav title
• entry: nav entry, path to the document to display
• entries: sub navs

···
"version": "v2.1",
"lang": "en",
"chapters": [
  {
    "title": "Release Notes",
    "icon": "/product.svg",
    "desc": "Introduce the new features, capabilities and updates for the releases",
    "chapters": [
      {
        "title": "Release Notes - 2.1.0",
        "entry": "/en/release/release-v210",
        "tag": "Latest"
      },
      {
        "title": "Release Notes - 2.0.2",
        "entry": "/en/release/release-v202"
      },
      {
        "title": "Release Notes - 2.0.1",
        "entry": "/en/release/release-v201"
      },
      {
        "title": "Release Notes - 2.0.0",
        "entry": "/en/release/release-v200"
      }
    ]
  }