SUSE Technical Reference Documentation Contributors Guide #

Contributors to SUSE TRD need the following:

The SUSE TRD GitHub repository is an organized collection of source files for each document. You can learn more about types of source files and how they are organized in Section 5, “Repository structure”.

Contributors use a Git workflow with the following major steps:

Each of these steps is explored in more detail in the following sections.

4.1 Fork the SUSE TRD repository #

 

The first step is to create a fork of the SUSE TRD repository into your own GitHub account. This only needs to be done once.

Note

If you work for SUSE or a partner company, use your company-sanctioned GitHub account.

1. Open your Web browser and log into your GitHub account.

2. Navigate to the SUSE TRD GitHub repository.

3. Fork this repository into your own account.

   1. In the GitHub UI, click Fork, then + Create a new fork.

      

   2. In the Create a new fork dialog, you can keep the defaults.

      

   3. Click Create fork.

4. If you are working with others on your document, you can invite them to collaborate in your repository fork.

   
   

   Note

   Alternatively, others can fork your fork and follow a similar workflow and submit content and suggestions to you through pull requests.

   1. Navigate to your fork.

   2. Click Settings > Colaborators > Add people.

   3. Enter the GitHub username, full name, or email address of your collaborator into the search field, then select the individual you wish to add.

      

      Warning

      Be sure to verify that you select the correct individual.

      SUSE employees should use approved GitHub accounts associated with their SUSE email addresses. Partner contributors should use GitHub accounts associated with their employer email account.

   4. Click Add to this repository.

4.3 Make a branch #

 

Branches help you keep your work separate from that of others. Think of a branch as an independent, project work area. You create your document in a branch of your fork. Later, you submit a pull request to merge this branch into the 'main' upstream branch.

1. Create a branch for your project.

   For example,

   git branch my-tuxy-project

2. To work in this branch, you have to check it out.

   git checkout my-tuxy-project

Tip

You can create and check out a branch at the same time with:

git checkout -b my-tuxy-project

Important

It is a good practice to make sure your branch is active at the start of each editing session. You can verify your current branch with:

git branch --show-current

4.5 Create content #

 

Good documentation often results from collaborative efforts and multiple editing sessions. The following workflow can help you manage this process.

1. Enter the local directory containing the clone of your GitHub fork. For example:

   cd ~/git/GITHUB_USER/technical-reference-documentation

2. Check out your project’s branch.

   git checkout my-tuxy-project

   

   Tip

   Always remember to work in your branch.

3. Update the clone from your origin remote.

   This allows you to integrate any edits or other content from your contributors, helping you minimize merge conflicts later.

   git pull origin

   

   Note

   It is not necessary to specify the origin remote, since it is configured as your default for tracking.

   

   Important

   Fix any merge errors before proceeding.

4. Create your content.

   A typical content session involves editing source files and copying assets (such as image files) into appropriate project directories. Be sure to refer to Section 7, “Style” and Section 8, “AsciiDoc” to learn more about writing style and content formatting.

5. Render your document with DAPS to verify content, layout, and style.

   

   Note

   You may get validation errors if you have invalid AsciiDoc syntax. You must then find and correct these errors.

6. Commit your changes locally.

   For example:

   git add .
   git commit -m "updated section 5; added screenshot"

   

   Tip

   Always include a commit message as a reminder to yourself and to let your collaboration team know what changes you made in this commit.

7. Push the commit to your origin remote.

   git push origin

   

   Note

   The first time you push a commit on your branch, you will see a warning like:

   fatal: The current branch my-tuxy-project has no upstream branch.
   To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use
   
       git push --set-upstream origin my-tuxy-project
   
   To have this happen automatically for branches without a tracking
   upstream, see 'push.autoSetupRemote' in 'git help config'.

   Simply follow the instructions to fix the issue.

   You only need to do this once.

8. Repeat these steps until you are finished with new content.

Tip

It is a good idea to break up long content creation sessions. Pause frequently to commit and push edits to your origin remote.

SUSE TRD is both a website with links to published documents and a GitHub repository of their source files. As a contributor, you need a general understanding of the structure of the source repository.

The repository’s top-level directories are:

├── common
│   ├── adoc
│   ├── bin
│   ├── images
│   └── templates
├── kubernetes
│   ├── enterprise
│   ├── reference
│   └── start
└── linux
    ├── enterprise
    ├── reference
    └── start

Inside the linux and kubernetes directories, are directories for the document types:

5.1 Getting started guide structure #

 

A getting started guide features a combination of components by one or more "entities," such as SUSE, a partner company, or an open source project. The source files used to generate these guides are maintained under the linux/start or kubernetes/start directories, depending on the primary implementation focus. Guide files are further organized into directories named for a featured entity. This is typically the provider of the component at the highest layer of the technology stack and closest to the user’s workload or use case. Thus, for example, you find directories for Kubeflow, MongoDB, Ondat, and so on.

start
├── bin
├── kubeflow
├── minio
├── mongodb
├── ondat
├── suse
├── sysdig
├── upbound
└── veeam

Note

The bin directory contains scripts to help contributors perform various tasks.

Inside an "entity" directory, you find further structure. For example:

veeam
├── DC-gs_rancher_veeam-kasten 1
├── adoc 2
│   ├── common_gfdl1.2_i.adoc -> ../../../../common/adoc/common_gfdl1.2_i.adoc
│   ├── ...
│   ├── gs_rancher_veeam-kasten.adoc 3
│   └── gs_rancher_veeam-kasten-docinfo.xml 4
├── images -> media
└── media 5
    └── src
        ├── png
        │   ├── rancher_veeam-kasten_k10_dashboard-welcome.png
        │   ├── ...
        │   └── rancher_veeam-kasten_architecture-1.png
        └── svg
            ├── logo-lockup_rancher-by-suse_kasten-by-veeam_hor_dark.svg
            └── suse.svg -> ../../../../../../common/images/src/svg/suse.svg

1	Doc Config (DC) file: There is one DC file for each documentation deliverable in which you specify parameters that define the name of the main content file, the rendering stylesheet, the revision date, and so on.
2	adoc directory: Contains your AsciiDoc content files and your DocBook metadata file.
3	Main content file: This plain text file, formatted with the AsciiDoc markup language, is where you write most of the text of your document. You can use the include directive to merge content from other AsciiDoc files during the rendering process.
4	DocBook metadata (docinfo.xml) file: This file specifies metadata about your document, including title, author information, cover logo file, and executive summary. Much of this information is actually defined as document attributes (variables) in your main content file and referenced here to save you from having to type the same information twice.
5	media directory: You can include logos, diagrams, screenshots, and other images in your guides. These media files are stored in subdirectories by file type under media/src. Many image file types are supported, but preference is given to: Scaled Vector Graphics or 'SVG' is a widely-deployed, royalty-free, vector graphics format developed and maintained by the W3C. A vector graphics image is rendered from a set of instructions that defines the image from basic, geometric shapes. This allows SVGs to be resized without loss of clarity. SVGs are typically used for logos and architectural diagrams. Portable Network Graphics or 'PNG' is a raster graphics format. A raster image encodes information (like position, color, or brightness) for each pixel (picture element) that makes up the image. PNG uses lossless compression, allowing PNGs to be edited and resaved without loss of clarity (unlike Joint Photographic Experts Group or 'JPEG' images). Scaling raster images can introduce artifacts. This is particularly apparent when images are enlarged. Choose image resolutions to minimize these artifacts. Note In the "entity" directory, images is a symbolic link to the media directory, and is used to maintain compatibility with existing processes and tooling.

You can learn more about Doc Config, AsciiDoc, and DocBook metadata files in Section 6, “Templates and framework”.

Your SUSE TRD documentation project relies on different types of source files, placed in specific locations within the repository’s directory structure. The files and structures can be created from scratch. But you can use the provided automation tools to generate a framework for you, including templates for your source files.

6.1 Getting started guides #

 

Getting started guides are relatively simple documents, but they do require multiple files located in a specific directory structure. You can create this structure and the requisite files manually, but the gssetup.sh script is available to help automate the process.

6.1.1 Generate the framework #

 

1. Open a local terminal and change to the directory containing your clone.

   cd ~/git/GITHUB_USER/technical-reference-documentation

2. Check out your project branch.

   git checkout tux-my-project

3. Change to either the kubernetes/start/ or linux/start/ subdirectory.

   For example:

   cd kubernetes/start

4. Execute the setup script to generate directory structures and basic files from templates.

   bin/gssetup.sh

5. Verify that you have performed the prerequisite actions presented in the banner, then press ENTER to continue.

   = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
   = Set up workspace for new TRD getting started guide      =
   = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
   
   
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
   - Before proceeding make sure you have:
   - 1. created a local branch: `git branch myproject`
   - 2. checked out your new branch: `git checkout myproject`
   - 3. changed to the 'kubernetes/start' or
   -    'linux/start' directory (as appropriate)
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
   
   Are you ready to proceed?
   Press ENTER to continue or CTRL-C to cancel.

6. Select whether this guide focuses on a Kubernetes or Linux solution.

   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Gather some information
   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
   
   Please enter the relevant category (i.e., 'k' for Kubernetes or 'l' for Linux) : k

   

   Note

   Linux is likely a part of every solution, but, if any portion of SUSE’s Enterprise Container Management portfolio is involved, select 'k' for Kubernetes.

7. Identify the primary SUSE product name.

   Please enter the primary SUSE product name (e.g., 'rancher', 'k3s', 'sles', 'suma', etc.) : rancher

   

   Note

   Identify one product as the primary component by entering a product abbreviation with lowercase, alphanumeric characters (no hyphens or other special characters). Product options include: harvester, rancher, rke, rke2, k3s, longhorn, sles, and suma.

   A solution may involve multiple SUSE products. If you have difficulty selecting one product as primary, select as primary the component that appears first in the above product list. Thus, for a solution with Rancher, RKE2, Longhorn, and SLES, you would enter 'rancher' at the prompt.

   If it is critical to reference additional SUSE products in the directory and file names, this can be handled with a manual process after running the script.

8. Identify a primary partner.

   Please enter the name of the primary partner : tuxy

   

   Note

   As with SUSE products, multiple partners and multiple partner products may appear in a solution. This selection only affects directory and file names. All other partners and products are properly can be identified in the text of the guide.

   Generally, select as primary the partner whose product is at the highest layer of the solution stack. Enter the name of the partner using lowercase letters and numbers without special characters (like hyphens).

   If it is critical to reference additional partners in the directory and file names, this can be done with a manual process after running this script.

9. Identify the primary partner product.

   Please enter the primary partner product name : penguin

   

   Note

   Use a lowercase abbreviation of the primary partner’s product that is featured in the solution.

   If it is critical for a second product of the primary partner to appear in the file name, you can enter both product abbreviations separated by a hyphen.

10. Optionally enter a use case or description.

    If you would like a use case or description (1-3 words), enter it now or just press ENTER :

    

    Note

    This use case text is used in file and directory names. It is useful to include such text if there are or will be guides detailing use of the same solution stack for different purposes. In most cases, it is fine to leave this blank.

11. Review the proposed structure and naming.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    - About to create the following structure:
    -
    -   kubernetes
    -   └── start
    -       └── tuxy
    -           ├── DC-gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin
    -           ├── adoc
    -           │   ├── gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin.adoc
    -           │   ├── gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin-docinfo.xml
    -           ├── images -> media
    -           └── media
    -               └── src
    -                   ├── png
    -                   └── svg
    -
    - Note: Several symbolic links will also be created.
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Press ENTER to create document structure or CTRL-C to cancel.

    

    Tip

    No directories or files are created until you press ENTER. If you want to make changes, press CTRL-C to cancel the planned operation and rerun the script.

12. Confirm that the script has correctly created the structure as intended.

    > cd tuxy
    > tree .

    tree .
    .
    ├── adoc
    │   ├── common_docinfo_vars.adoc -> ../../../../common/adoc/common_docinfo_vars.adoc
    │   ├── common_gfdl1.2_i.adoc -> ../../../../common/adoc/common_gfdl1.2_i.adoc
    │   ├── common_sbp_legal_notice.adoc -> ../../../../common/adoc/common_sbp_legal_notice.adoc
    │   ├── common_trd_legal_notice.adoc -> ../../../../common/adoc/common_trd_legal_notice.adoc
    │   ├── gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin.adoc
    │   └── gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin-docinfo.xml
    ├── DC-gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin
    ├── images -> media
    └── media
        └── src
            ├── png
            └── svg
                └── suse.svg -> ../../../../../../common/images/src/svg/suse.svg

The gssetup.sh script creates the standard directory structure, symbolic links to common files, and the three principal files you will edit for your document: the Doc Config (DC) file, the DocBook metadata docinfo) file, and the AsciiDoc (adoc) file for your main content.

6.1.2 Doc Config file #

 

Your Doc Config (or DC) file specifies parameters that define the documentation deliverable. Some key parameters in the file are highlighted below.

DRAFT=yes 1

...

MAIN="gs_rancher_tuxy-penguin.adoc" 2

...

ADOC_ATTRIBUTES+=" --attribute docdate=yyyy-mm-dd" 3

1	Specifies that the document is in draft mode. Prior to submitting for publication, deactivate draft mode by simply prepending the line with a hash mark ( # ): #DRAFT=yes
2	Specifies the filename of your main content file.
3	Specifies the document revision date. Update this date prior to submitting for publication.

6.1.3 DocBook metadata file #

 

The DocBook metadata (docinfo) file specifies metadata about your document, including title, author information, cover logo, and an executive summary.

Warning

Be sure document attributes (variables) referenced in the docinfo file are properly defined in your adoc file. Otherwise, your document will fail to render.

 <productname>{product1} {product1_version}</productname> 1
 <meta name="platform">{product1_full}</meta> 2

...

 <authorgroup>
   <author> 3
     <personname> 4
       <firstname>{author1_firstname}</firstname>
       <surname>{author1_surname}</surname>
     </personname>
     <affiliation> 5
       <jobtitle>{author1_jobtitle}</jobtitle>
       <orgname>{author1_orgname}</orgname>
     </affiliation>
   </author>
 </authorgroup>

...

 <cover role="logos"> 6
   <mediaobject>
     <imageobject role="fo">
       <imagedata fileref="suse.svg" width="10em"/>
     </imageobject>
     <imageobject role="html">
       <imagedata fileref="suse.svg" width="30em"/>
     </imageobject>
   </mediaobject>
 </cover>

1	Specifies the guide’s primary SUSE product by official abbreviation and version. Examples: 'SLES 15', 'SLES 15 SP4', 'Rancher 2.x', 'Rancher 2.7', 'Rancher 2.6+'
2	Specifies the official full name of the primary SUSE product. Examples: 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server', 'SUSE Manager', 'Rancher by SUSE'
3	Delimits the information about a single author. Add an <author>…​</author> section for each author. Tip You can also indicate an editor with <editor>…​</editor> and other contributor with <othercredit>…​</othercredit>. Alternatively, it is acceptable to thank editors and other contributors in an "Acknowledgements" subsection of your "Introduction."
4	Specifies the name of the author with document attributes defined in your adoc file.
5	Specifies the job title and affiliation (company, foundation, agency, project, etc.) of the author.
6	Specifies the logo image to appear on the cover page of rendered documents. The SUSE logo is used by default. To use a joint logo with a partner or project, create a logo lock-up that is compliant with brand guidelines (approvals may be required from all parties).

6.1.4 AsciiDoc content files #

 

The text of your document is contained in one or more AsciiDoc (adoc) files. For a getting started guide, you typically put all your content in a single adoc file, the one specified in the DC file with the MAIN parameter. You can split your contents into multiple adoc files and use the AsciiDoc include directive so all the content will be merged in the rendered document.

6.1.4.1 Document attributes and variables #

 

Document attributes are name-value pairs you declare in your adoc file. Attributes enable you to configure the AsciiDoc processor, declare document metadata, and define reusable content that you can reference elsewhere within the document like variables in a programming language.

You define an attribute with an entry in the form of:

 :name_of_attribute: value of attribute

• The attribute name is preceded and followed by a colon (:). The SUSE TRD style uses only lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores.

• The attribute value is any text up to a new line character.

  

  Note

  There must be a space between the closing colon of the attribute name and the first character of the value text.

The getting started guide adoc template includes a 'Variables & Attributes' section to help you define required attributes and allow you to define custom ones.

 // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 // organization - do NOT modify
 // -
 :trd: Technical Reference Documentation 1
 :type: Getting Started 2

1	Declares this document as part of SUSE Technical Reference Documentation.
2	Declares this document to be a getting started guide.

 // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 // document
 // -
  :title: Title 1
  :subtitle: Subtitle 2

1	Your title should be written in title case (see Section 8, “AsciiDoc”). It should consist of a few words that identify the contents of the document.
2	Your subtitle should provide further clarification to the document contents.

 :product1: Primary SUSE product/platform short name (abbreviation) 1
 :product1_full: Primary SUSE product/platform full name
 :product1_version: Primary SUSE product/platform relevant version or versions
 :product1_url: Primary SUSE product/platform URL (without the protocol)
 :product2: Secondary product short name 2
 :product2_full: Secondary product full name
 :product2_url: Secondary product URL

1	Identifies the primary SUSE product or platform first. Include attributes for: the official short name or abbreviation (SLES, SUMa, Rancher, etc.) the official full name (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Manager, Rancher by SUSE) the relevant version or versions (15, 15 SP4+, 2.7, 2.7+) the product/platform website URL without the protocol (www.suse.com/products/server/)
2	Identifies additional products by SUSE, partners, foundations, projects, etc.

 :usecase: Use case featured in this document 1

 :executive_summary: One sentence summary of the document 2

1

Provides a text snippet identifying the use case. This should be brief and high level. Some examples include: Database-as-a-Service, edge analytics in healthcare, and Kubernetes-native object storage.

2

Provides an executive summary of the document in one sentence. Your executive summary should inform the reader’s expectations for the document. You can even use previously defined attributes. For example, "This document outlines basic steps for using the {product2_full} to implement {usecase} on {product1_full}." This attribute is referenced in your docinfo file and appears after the cover page in your rendered document.

 // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 // contributor
 // specify information about authors, editors, and others here,
 // then update docinfo file as appropriate
 // -
 :author1_firstname: first (given) name 1
 :author1_surname: surname
 :author1_jobtitle: job title
 :author1_orgname: organization affiliation
 //:author2_firstname: first (given) name 2
 //:author2_surname: surname
 //:author2_jobtitle: job title
 //:author2_orgname: organization affiliation

1	Provides information about the primary author of the document. This includes: first or given name surname or family name job title affiliation (company, agency, foundation, project, etc.)
2	You can define additional authors by repeating the pattern for the first author. You also must add an <author>…​</author> group to your docinfo file and reference the appropriate document attribute for each additional author.

Note

You can also define editors and other contributors in the same way, except you use <editor>…​</editor> and <othercredit>…​<othercredit> tags in your docinfo file.

You conclude this section of your main adoc file with any custom variables you wish to define.

 // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 // miscellaneous
 // define any additional variables here for use within the document
 // -

6.1.4.2 Content #

 

After defining document attributes and variables, you can begin developing your content. The template provided by the gssetup.sh script provides an outline for a general getting started guide. Additional guidance is included as comments (lines prefixed with a double backslash, \\ ).

A general structure for a getting started guide includes these sections:

• Introduction: introduction to the concept and purpose of the guide.

  • Motivation: why this guide is needed

  • Scope: what the guide covers

  • Audience: who can benefit from the guide and what skills are required

  • Acknowledgements (optional): who else contributed to this guide but is not listed as an author

• Prerequisites: minimum requirements needed by the reader to follow the actions detailed in the guide - link to resources and references

• Technical overview: technical description of the solution - include architecture and other diagrams

• Installation: step-by-step guide for installation

• Configuration (optional): additional steps beyond installation required to render a functional solution

• Demonstration or Validation: step-by-step demonstration or validation of the featured function or use case

• Summary: brief review of the solution, what was covered, and suggestions for next steps

This general structure can be adapted to fit a the particular solution or use case.

SUSE TRD is part of the SUSE Documentation ecosystem. Its objective is to provide well-structured, clear, and concise technical information in a way that facilitates real-world problem-solving. Consistent writing style and formatting contribute to the creation of high quality documentation.

Writing style goes beyond the essential elements of spelling, grammar, and punctuation to include tone of voice, choice of words, sentence and paragraph structure, and more.

Keep in mind the following general writing style guidance as you create your documentation for SUSE TRD:

For more on writing effective technical documentation, see the SUSE Documentation Style Guide.

SUSE TRD documentation is rendered from plain text files. Formatting (including structure and text styling) is indicated with AsciiDoc. This is a lightweight and semantic markup language with an intuitive syntax that is primarily designed for writing technical documentation.

 :name-of-an-attribute: value of the attribute

 :title: Edge Analytics in Finance
 :product1: Rancher

 This document provides guidance for deploying {product2} on {product1} to enable {usecase}.

 = My Document Title: My Document Subtitle

 :title: Rancher by SUSE and Priority Support on AWS Marketplace
 :subtitle: Deploy Rancher on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

 = {title}: {subtitle}

 <title>{title}</title>
 <subtitle>{subtitle}</subtitle>

 == Section title level 1

 === Section title level 2

 ==== Section title level 3

 == Enabling Podman

 Podman, which is short for Pod Manager, is a daemonless, open source tool ...


 === Install Podman

 Podman is not installed by default in SLES 15, but you can install it with these steps.
 ...


 === Define subordinate UIDs and GIDs

 By default, only the root user can run Podman containers.  Running ...
 ...


 == Creating container images

 You can build an application container image ...

 === Make a build directory

 You need a place in your file system to contain ...

The `manifest.yaml` file is located in the `$HOME/my-tuxy-project` directory.

8.7 Admonitions #

 

Use admonitions are used to help draw the reader’s attention to content. AsciiDoc supports five admonition types represented by the following labels:

• NOTE: provide additional information

• TIP: suggest a helpful tip

• IMPORTANT: highlight an important point

• CAUTION: advise that care should be taken

• WARNING: inform of danger, harm, or consequences

The basic admonition style places the admonition label followed by a colon ( : ) at the beginning of a line of text. This is useful for short admonitions that do not contain a line break. For example:

 TIP: By default, some `zypper` commands perform `refresh` automatically.

This is rendered as:

Tip

By default, some zypper commands perform refresh automatically.

The block admonition style provides more flexibility for the content, as illustrated with this example:

 [IMPORTANT]
 ====
 When working with snapshots to restore data, it is important to know
 that there are two fundamentally different scenarios Snapper can handle:

 Undoing changes::
 When undoing changes as described in the following, two snapshots are
 being compared and the changes between these two snapshots are made undone.
 Using this method also allows to explicitly select the files that should be
 restored.

 Rollback::
 When doing rollbacks as described in <<System rollback>>, the system is
 reset to the state at which the snapshot was taken.

 ====

8.8 Source code, commands, and output #

 

Content in listing blocks are rendered in a fixed-width font, making them ideal for source code, commands, and console output where spacing can be important.

A basic listing block has the form:

 [listing]
 ----
 This   text has      really weird      spacing   that is    preserved.

 Line spacing is also preserved.
 ----

You can include a source code listing in your document with a source code block. This special type of listing block enables syntax highlighting, using color and text styles to highlight code structures (such as keyword, variables, constants, comments, and so on).

To illustrate, review the following Python code snippet.

 [source, python]  1
 ----  2
 # import libraries
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np

 # define data points
 xpoints = np.array([1, 2, 5, 12])
 ypoints = np.array([5, 3, 11, 6])

 plt.plot(xpoints, ypoints)
 plt.show()
 ----  3

1	[source, python] identifies this as a source code block and the source language as Python. Some common source language identifiers are: bash, c, html, python, sql, yaml, and xml.
2 3	---- delimits the beginning and end of the block.

Note

As with ordinary listing blocks, line spacing is preserved.

Commands entered on the command line are also handled with source code blocks. For commands, use console as the source language identifier. For example:

 [source, console]
 ----
 sudo zypper install vim
 ----

You can also reference a short command inline by delimiting it with the grave accent or back tick ( ` ):

 Use `zypper refresh` to update your enabled repositories.

For the output of a command, use a simple listing block for output. This will render with a fixed-width font and preserve line spacing. For example:

 [listing]
 ----
 Type   | # |     | Cleanup | Description           | Userdata
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 single | 0 |     |         | current               |
 single | 1 |     | number  | first root filesystem |
 single | 2 |     | number  | after installation    | important=yes
 single | 3 |     | number  | rollback backup of #1 | important=yes
 single | 4 |     |         |                       |
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 .. Select _myfile_ from the list.

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Among the important tools for your workflow as a contributor to SUSE Technical Reference Documentation is the DocBook Authoring and Publishing Suite (DAPS). DAPS helps you author and publish documentation written in DocBook XML and AsciiDoc to a variety of different formats, such as HTML, EPUB, and PDF. It also includes tooling for validation, link checking, spell checking, and editor macros.

DAPS is dual-licensed under GPL 2.0 and GPL 3.0, and it is available as binary packages for the openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise, and it can be installed from source on any Linux distribution. DAPS has several software dependencies, some of which are required and others are recommended to enable certain functionality. For details, see the System Requirements and Installation section of the DAPS User Guide.

Daps2Docker aims to simplify and expand access to the rendering capabilities of DAPS. It does this by packaging DAPS and some of its dependencies in an easy-to-use, OCI compliant container.

Below are details for installing and configuring Daps2Docker on a bare metal or virtual machine running one of the following operating systems:

Note

It should require little effort to adapt these steps for other operating systems that can run OCI-compliant containers.

9.3 Installing Daps2Docker #

 

You can install Daps2Docker with zypper on the command line.

1. Install Daps2Docker from the Documentation:Tools repository.

   sudo zypper install --repo Documentation_Tools daps2docker

Important

When you install Daps2Docker, you may see output like the following:

Problem: nothing provides 'docker' needed by the to be installed daps2docker-0.18-150400.1.1.noarch
 Solution 1: do not install daps2docker-0.18-150400.1.1.noarch
 Solution 2: break daps2docker-0.18-150400.1.1.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c/d/?] (c): 2

Because Podman is being used, you can safely choose to "break" this dependency by selecting option '2'.

asciidoctor: WARNING: skipping reference to missing attribute: product1

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