This repository is the source code for Kong's documentation website. It is a Jekyll website hosted on GitHub pages.

Not sure where to start? Head on over to the issues tab to and look for the good first issue label. These are issues Kong has identified as beginner friendly. Many of these can be addressed through Github and do not require pulling the repository and building locally.

make install-prerequisites

make develop

Install tools:

make install

Run the build:

make run

Check the build output at http://localhost:3000.

make check-links

• node and npm
• yarn
• gulp
• Bundler (< 2.0.0)
• Ruby (>= 2.0, < 2.3)
• Python (>= 2.7.X, < 3)

gem install bundler
npm install

npm start

We are using Algolia docsearch for our documentation search. The algolia index for Kong is maintained by Algolia through their docsearch service. Their scraper runs every 24 hours. The config used by the scraper is open source for docs.konghq.com and can be found here. To update the scraper config, you can submit a pull request to the config. To test a config change locally, you will need to run their open source scraper against your own scraper to test out config changes.

The Enterprise documentation uses paid algolia indices, which auto-update every 24 hours via a github action here

The automated docs currently require using both the kong/kong repo and this repo (kong/docs.konghq.com, kong/docs for short) in combination.

The usual release process is taken care of by the Kong Gateway team. They have a set of scripts (example) which run the following steps as part of the release process.

The following instructions replicate what that script does, in a more manual way.

You will need to know the release you are trying to generate docs for. The release looks like 0.14.x in kong/docs, and like 0.14.1 or 0.14.2 in kong/kong.

Prerequisites:

• Make sure that the resty and luajit executables are in your $PATH (installing kong should install them).
• Install Luarocks (comes with Kong).
• Several Lua rocks are needed. The easiest way to get them all is to execute make dev in the Kong folder
• Install ldoc using Luarocks: luarocks install ldoc 1.4.6
• Have a local clone of Kong.
• In the kong/kong repository, check out the desired branch/tag/release.

To generate the PDK docs:

• On the kong/doc repo, KONG_PATH=path/to/your/kong/folder KONG_VERSION=0.14.x gulp pdk-docs
• This command will attempt to:
  • Obtain an updated list of modules from your local PDK and put it inside your nav file.
  • Generate documentation for all the modules in your PDK (where possible) and put in a folder inside your version docs.
  • Note: the command used by the Kong Gateway team is different than this one (it does not use the gulp abstraction). But they are functionally equivalent.

To generate the Admin API docs:

• On the kong/kong repo, run ./scripts/autodoc-admin-api
• Copy kong/kong/autodoc/output/admin-api/admin-api.md into kong/docs/app/0.14.x/admin-api.md (replace 0.14.x with current release)
• Copy kong/kong/autodoc/output/admin-api/db-less-admin-api.md into kong/docs/app/0.14.x/db-less-admin-api.md (replace 0.14.x with current release)
• Copy kong/kong/autodoc/output/nav/docs_nav.yml.admin-api.in into kong/docs/autodoc-nav/docs_nav_0.14.x.yml.head.in. Replace 0.14.x with release.
• On the kong/docs repo, run KONG_VERSION=0.14.x luajit ./autodoc-nav/run.lua (replace 0.14.x with current release). This will merge the navigation info in the right place.
• These commands generate a two big files for the admin API and a smaller file for the navigation, which needs to be inserted in a specific place in the navigation yaml file.

To generate the CLI docs:

• In kong/docs KONG_PATH=path/to/your/kong/repo KONG_VERSION=0.14.x luajit autodoc-cli/run.lua (replace 0.14.x with current release)
• This command will:
  • Extract the output of the --help for every kong CLI subcommand
  • Generate a new cli.md in the path corresponding to the provided KONG_VERSION.

To generate the Configuration docs:

• In kong/docs: KONG_PATH=path/to/your/kong/folder KONG_VERSION=0.14.x luajit autodoc-conf/run.lua (replace 0.14.x with current release)
• This command will:
  • Parse Kong's kong.conf.default file and extract sections, variable names, descriptions, and default values
  • Write those down inside a configuration.md file in the path matching KONG_VERSION.
  • The command will completely overwrite the file, including text before and after the list of vars.
  • The data used for the before/after parts can be found in autodoc-conf/data.lua

Once everything is generated, open a branch with the changes, send a pull request, and review the changes.

We encourage developers to list their Kong plugins and integrations (which we refer to collectively as "extensions") in the Kong Hub with documentation hosted on the Kong website for ready access.

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.