inspec/docs-chef-io

Chef InSpec Documentation

This is the home of the InSpec Documentation that is deployed on https://docs.chef.io/inspec/ using Hugo modules.

The Fastest Way to Contribute

There are two steps to updating the Chef InSpec documentation:

1. Update the documentation in the inspec/inspec repository.
2. Update the InSpec repository module in chef-web-docs

Update Content in inspec/inspec

The fastest way to change the documentation is to edit a page on the GitHub website using the GitHub UI.

To perform edits using the GitHub UI, click on the [edit on GitHub] link at the top of the page that you want to edit. The link takes you to that topic's GitHub page. In GitHub, click on the pencil icon and make your changes. You can preview how they'll look right on the page ("Preview Changes" tab).

We also require contributors to include their DCO signoff in the comment section of every pull request, except for obvious fixes. You can add your DCO signoff to the comments by including Signed-off-by:, followed by your name and email address, like this:

Signed-off-by: Julia Child <juliachild@chef.io>

See our blog post for more information about the DCO and why we require it.

After you've added your DCO signoff, add a comment about your proposed change, then click on the "Propose file change" button at the bottom of the page and confirm your pull request. The CI system will do some checks and add a comment to your PR with the results.

The Chef documentation team can normally merge pull requests within seven days. We'll fix build errors before we merge, so you don't have to worry about passing all the CI checks, but it might add an extra few days. The important part is submitting your change.

Update the InSpec Repository Module In chef/chef-web-docs

We use Hugo modules to build Chef's documentation from multiple repositories. Expeditor will submit a pull request that updates the documentation in chef/chef-web-docs the next time InSpec is promoted.

The Docs Team can also update the InSpec documentation if changes need to be made before the next promotion.

Local Development Environment

We use Hugo, Go, andNPM to build the Chef Documentation website. You will need Hugo 0.78.1 or higher installed and running to build and view our documentation properly.

To install Hugo, NPM, and Go on Windows and macOS:

• On macOS run: brew install hugo node go
• On Windows run: choco install hugo nodejs golang -y

To install Hugo on Linux, run:

• apt install -y build-essential
• snap install node --classic --channel=12
• snap install hugo --channel=extended

Preview Workstation Documentation

There are two ways to preview the documentation in inspec:

• submit a PR
• make serve

Submit a PR

When you submit a PR to inspec/inspec, Netlify will build the documentation and add a notification to the GitHub pull request page. You can review your documentation changes as they would appear on docs.chef.io.

make serve

Running make serve will clone a copy of chef/chef-web-docs into docs-chef-io. That copy will be configured to build the InSpec documentation from docs-chef-io and live reload if any changes are made while the Hugo server is running.

• Run make serve
• go to http://localhost:1313

Clean Your Local Environment

If you have a local copy of chef-web-docs cloned into docs-chef-io, running make clean_all will delete the SASS files, node modules, and fonts in docs-chef-io/chef-web-docs/themes/docs-new used to build the docs site in the cloned copy of chef-web-docs. Hugo will reinstall these the next time you run make serve.

Creating New Pages

Please keep all of the InSpec documentation in the content/inspec directory. To add a new Markdown file, run the following command from the www directory:

hugo new content/inspec/<filename>.md

If it's a new resource page, run:

hugo new -k resource content/inspec/resources/<filename>.md

This will create a draft page with enough front matter to get you going. Note that resource pages must have a platform specified in the page frontmatter. See the Resource pages section below for more information.

Hugo uses Goldmark which is a superset of Markdown that includes GitHub styled tables, task lists, and definition lists.

See our Style Guide for more information about formatting documentation using Markdown.

Resource Pages

The resource pages are located in www/content/inspec/resources/.

The InSpec resources index page is located in www/content/inspec/resources/_index.md and can be found on https://docs.chef.io/inspec/resources/

The resource index page has a shortcode called inspec_resources that lists resource pages by platform. To use the shortcode, add the shortcode and specify the platform parameter: {{< inspec_resources platform="<platform>" >}}

A resource page must be located in www/content/inspec/resources and must have the platform parameter set in its frontmatter. Add platform = <platform> to the page frontmatter to add the platform parameter. For example, the aide_conf.md resource frontmatter has platform = "linux" in its page frontmatter.

Documentation Content

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├── docs-chef-io
│   ├── content
│   │   ├── inspec                 # where to keep markdown file documentation
│   │   │   ├── resources          # where to keep resource page documentation
|   ├── static
|   |   ├── images
|   |   |   ├── inspec/inspec        # where to keep any images you need to reference in your documentation

What is happening behind the scenes

The Chef Documentation site uses Hugo modules to load content directly from the docs-chef-io directory in the inspec/inspec repository. Every time inspec/inspec is promoted to stable, Expeditor instructs Hugo to update the version of the inspec/inspec repository that Hugo uses to build Chef InSpec documentation on the Chef Documentation site. This is handled by the Expeditor subscriptions in the chef/chef-web-docs GitHub repository.

Documentation Feedback

We love getting feedback, questions, or comments.

Email

Send an email to Chef-Docs@progress.com for documentation bugs, ideas, thoughts, and suggestions. This email address is not a support email address. If you need support, contact Chef Support.

GitHub issues

Submit an issue to the InSpec repo for "important" documentation bugs that may need visibility among a larger group, especially in situations where a doc bug may also surface a product bug.

Submit an issue to chef-web-docs for doc feature requests and minor documentation issues.