Flatcar Website

Flatcar's website is built with Hugo.

Installing Hugo

You should install Hugo Extended instead of the regular Hugo version.

So download Hugo Extended from the releases page, and/or follow these instructions in order to install it.

Adding content

Currently, you'll need to edit the text files under content in this repo to modify the site.

Blog content

In order to add content for the blog you can use the hugo new command. The format is as follow.

hugo new blog/YEAR-MONTH-DAY-example-content/index.md

The following command will create a new blog post with the front matter defined in the default archetype from the ./archetype directory.

The default front matter almost always needs to be modified to a category and tags. Here's an example.

---
title: "Example Content"
date: 2018-10-26T03:51:27+02:00
draft: true
tags:
- tag1
- tag1
categories:
- Announcement
---

TODO: Add more content sections (events, job postings, etc.)

Testing

You should always test your changes locally before creating a pull request. Once you do createi a branch or a pull request, we use Azure Static Web Apps to create previews of the changes so that reviewers and yourself can easily review the changes.

Testing locally

To test locally run the following command.

make run

The above command will run a server with the the site available at http://localhost:1313. It will also watch for any changes made to the site and regenerate and reload the site when changes are detected. In addition, it disables some caching that can sometimes have confusing results.

Testing Pull requests

Each pull request will run some checks and create a new preview of the changes that can be access by clicking on the Github pull request status section.

Testing documentation locally

If you are working on documentation and would like to see the changes be reflected in a local run of the website, then you need to generate a module to import the docs and run the website locally with it.

You can use the tools/preview_docs.sh script for conveniently generating an import module, e.g.:

./tools/preview_docs.sh ../flatcar-docs/docs new_latest

(this creates a tmp_modules.yaml)

and then start the local server again with make run.

Changing the published documentation

The documentation is set under params.docs in config.yaml and should look similar to:

github_edit_url: https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-docs/edit/main/docs/
issues_url: https://github.com/kinvolk/flatcar/issues/new?labels=kind/docs
external_docs:
- repo: https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-docs.git
    name: "latest"
    branch: "main"
    dir: "docs"

If you want to add a new version of the documentation, this can be done by adding a new entry to external_docs:

external_docs:
- repo: https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-docs.git
    name: "latest"
    branch: "main"
    dir: "docs"
- repo: https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-docs.git
    name: "old"
    branch: "tag-1.2.3"
    dir: "docs"

This will pull the docs that were versioned by the tag-1.2.3 and place them under a version called old.

By default, the first version in the list of external_docs is considered to be the latest version and so it is the one linked to automatically in the site.