deploy/rook/Documentation/Contributing/documentation.md

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title: Documentation

We are using MkDocs with the Material for MkDocs theme.

Markdown Extensions

Thanks to the MkDocs Material theme we have certain "markdown syntax extensions" available:

• Admonitions
• Footnotes
• Icons, Emojis
• Task lists
• And more..

For a whole list of features Reference - Material for MkDocs.

Local Preview

To locally preview the documentation, you can run the following command (in the root of the repository):

make docs-preview

When previewing, now you can navigate your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to open the preview of the documentation.

!!! hint

Should you encounter a `command not found` error while trying to preview the docs for the first time on a machine, you probably need to install the dependencies for MkDocs and extensions used.

```console
pip3 install -r build/release/requirements_docs.txt
```

Please make sure that your Python binary path is included in your `PATH`.

Making docs

helm-docs is a tool that generates the documentation for a helm chart automatically. If there are changes in the helm chart, the developer needs to run make docs (to run helm-docs) and check in the resulting autogenerated files. To make it easy to check locally for uncommitted changes generated by make docs, an additional make target exists: simply running make check-docs will run the docs auto-generation and will complain if this produces uncommitted changes to doc files. It is therefore a good habit to always run make check-docs locally before creating or updating a PR.