KubeVirt User-Guide

Contributing contents

We more than welcome contributions to KubeVirt documentation. Please reach out if you happen to have an idea or find an issue with our contents!

Get started

Fork this repository

Make changes to your fork

You can find the markdown that powers the user guide in ./docs, most commits are to that area.

We use mkdocs markdown engine with mkdocs-awesome-pages plugin

• mkdocs config file
• Each subdirectory of ./docs contains a .pages file. We use this to force the ordering of pages. Alphabetical ordering is not ideal for technical documentation.

Sign your commits

Signature verification on commits are required -- you may sign your commits by running:

$ git commit -s -m "The commit message" file1 file 2 ...

If you need to sign all commits from a certain point (for example, main), you may run:

git rebase --exec 'git commit --amend --no-edit -n -s' -i main

Signed commit messages generally take the following form:

<your commit message>

Signed-off-by: <your configured git identity>

Test your changes locally:

$ make build_img
$ make check_spelling
$ make check_links
$ make run

NOTE If you use docker you may need to set CONTAINER_ENGINE and BUILD_ENGINE:

$ export CONTAINER_ENGINE=docker
$ export BUILD_ENGINE=docker
$ make run

Open your web browser to http://0.0.0.0:8000 and validate page rendering

Create a pull request to kubevirt/user-guide

After you have vetted your changes, make a PR to kubevirt/user-guide so that others can review.

Makefile Help

Makefile for user-guide mkdocs application

Usage:
  make <target>

Env Variables:
  CONTAINER_ENGINE      Set container engine, [*podman*, docker]
  BUILD_ENGINE          Set build engine, [*podman*, buildah, docker]
  SELINUX_ENABLED       Enable SELinux on containers, [*False*, True]
  LOCAL_SERVER_PORT     Port on which the local mkdocs server will run, [*8000*]

Targets:
  help                   Show help
  check_links            Check external and internal links
  check_spelling         Check spelling on site content
  build_img  Build image: userguide
  build_image_yaspeller  Build image: yaspeller
  build                  Build site. This target should only be used by Prow jobs.
  run                    Run site.  App available @ http://0.0.0.0:8000
  status                 Container status
  stop                   Stop site
  stop_yaspeller         Stop yaspeller image

Environment Variables

• CONTAINER_ENGINE: Some of us use docker. Some of us use podman (default: podman).

• BUILD_ENGINE: Some of us use docker. Some of us use podman or buildah (default: podman).

• SELINUX_ENABLED: Some of us run SELinux enabled. Set to True to enable container mount labelling.

• PYTHON: Change the python executable used (default: python3.7).

• PIP: Change the pip executable used (default: pip3).

• LOCAL_SERVER_PORT: Port on which the local mkdocs server will run, i.e. http://localhost:<port> (default: 8000).

• DEBUG: This is normally hidden. Set to True to echo target commands to terminal.

Targets:

• check_links: HTMLProofer is used to check any links to external websites as we as any cross-page links

• check_spelling: yaspeller is used to check spelling. Feel free to update to the dictionary file as needed (kubevirt/project-infra/images/yaspeller/.yaspeller.json).

• build_img: mkdocs project does not provide a container image. Use this target to build an image packed with python and mkdocs app. ./docs will be mounted. ./site will be mounted as tmpfs...changes here are lost.

• build_image_yaspeller: yaspeller project does not provide a container image. User this target to Build an image packed with nodejs and yaspeller app. ./docs will be mounted. yaspeller will check content for spelling and other bad forms of English.

• status: Basically ${BUILD_ENGINE} ps for an easy way to see what's running.

• stop: Stop container and app

• stop_yaspeller: Sometimes yaspeller goes bonkers. Stop it here.

Getting help

• File a bug: https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/issues

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev

• Slack: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization

Developer

• Start contributing: https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/contributing

Privacy

• Check our privacy policy at: https://kubevirt.io/privacy/

• We do use https://netlify.com Open Source Plan for rendering Pull Requests to the documentation repository