Documentation

This repository contains meta-documentation for the ORY Ecosystem.
You can find the source files for each projects documentation here:

• Ory Kratos
• Ory Hydra
• Ory Oathkeeper
• Ory Keto

Other Ory Projects documentation:

• Ory Kubernetes Helm Charts
• Ory Dockertest
• Ory SDKs

Contributing Documentation

Documentation for the Ory Ecosystem lives in ory/docs.
Documentation for the individual projects live in their respective docs folder. (Ory Hydra, Ory Kratos, Ory Oathkeeper, Ory Keto)
If you make changes, please consider making the same changes in the latest version of /versioned_docs

To test the documentation locally:

Change into the /docs folder in your local git environment.

Install dependencies npm install Test build the documentation:
npm start # test if everything works

To build the docs:
npm run build

Formatting documentation

All documentation (as well as any other files) must be formatted using Ory's prettier styles

To format all for documentation relevant files simply run the following command from the repositories main directory:

cd docs
npm install
npm run format
git commit -a -m "styles: format"
git push

Categories

Ory Documentations is structured into several main categories.
Each of those categories serves a specific purpose. The purpose of each category is outline in short here, to help find the correct category for your documentation to live in.

• Introduction
  • The purpose of this category is to introduce the very basics of the project and give newcomers a easy way to start. Contains the most basic explanation of the project, an installation guide, a Quickstart/5-Minute Tutorial and Contribution Guidelines.
• Concepts
  • The purpose of this category is to give the reader a deep understanding of the ideas upon which the project is built. Content in this category has the form of a discursive explanation. The main goal is to explain.
• Guides
  • The purpose of this category is to solve a specific problem. It has the form of a series of steps towards a goal. It is aimed towards more experienced users, who are already familiar with the concepts and tools.
• Reference
  • The purpose of this category is to provide detailed & in-depth description of the project . It has the form of a austere and to the point explanation and is rooted in code, most often these documents are built directly from code without editor interaction. It does not give information on how to do specific things, but describes how to correctly use the APIs ect.
• SDK
  • Same as the above category but for SDKs, also containing simple guides for using SDKs.

Document Structure

Add a meaningful title and an ID to the top of the document. id needs to be separated with - and lowercase, title with space and Uppercase. Example:

---
id: documentation-id
title: Documentation Title
---

How to add links to other pages

If you would add a link to an outside ressource, just go ahead.

If you want to add a link to a document in our own documentation, please make sure to add the filename.

For example [XY Guide](./guide/XY.md) rather than [XY Guide](./guide/XY).

This prevents broken links (issue) when you load the documentation from an outside link.

How to add code from Github

Use CodeFromRemote to import code directly from Github.

Import at the beginning of your document like so:

---
id: documentation id
title: Documentation Title
---

import CodeFromRemote from '@theme/CodeFromRemote'

Then at the place you want the code to appear in the document add:

<CodeFromRemote
  lang="js" # the language of the code you want to add e.g. jsx,tsx,ts,go,yaml,yml,js,html,pug
  link="https://github.com/ory/kratos-selfservice-ui-node/blob/master/src/middleware/simple.ts"
  src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ory/kratos-selfservice-ui-node/master/src/middleware/simple.ts"
/>

CLI Docs

Fixing Ory CLI docs

If you find an error in the Ory CLI documentation here are some pointer how to fix it:

The code that generates the CLi docs (for Kratos) comes from here:
https://github.com/ory/kratos/blob/master/cmd/clidoc/main.go

cmd/clidoc/main.go is the general path for all Ory projects.

The command to generate the CLI docs can be found here:
https://github.com/ory/x/blob/master/clidoc/generate.go#L96