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About the Book
The Docs as Code Primer: A practical handbook is a "must read" to get you started by implementing Docs as Code for developers, DevOps Engineers and solution architect. The book is packed with a ton of practical examples and tools you can use to accelerate your writing in the technical documentation domain. The reader should have a basic understanding:
- Plaintext markup languages
- CI/CD practices
- Version control
- Scripting Languages (e.g., PowerShell, Bash)
The book is divided into seven chapters:
- Introduction to Docs as Code
- Getting started
- Documentation architecture
- Building documentation
- Testing
- Integrating in CI/CD Pipelines
- Automation
After reading this book, you will have learned the following:
- What tools and technologies are available to write effective technical documentation
- How to enforce standards and consistency across documentation
- How to catch invalid documents
- How to perform proper testing with CLI utilities
- How to build documentation and expose it to the public or internal
- How to implement proper CI/CD for documentation
- How to automate for other platforms and use tools to generate other output formats while keeping a single point of truth
- Which AI tool can help you to accelerate your technical writing directly from the editor
About the Author
Gijs Reijn is a Microsoft MVP with nearly a decade of IT experience. He predominantly works with Azure technologies. He’s currently working in the financial sector. He enjoys sharing his knowledge on his website The Lonely Engineer, as well as on Medium and the Rabo Tech Blog, where he is currently employed. You can find his books here on LeanPub.
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