docatl, the docat cli

Manage your docat documentation with ease.

Getting Started

Download the latest Release binary for your platform and start pushing your documentation:

docatl push --host https://docat.company.io ./docs.zip myproject v1.0.0

or with an implicit build:

docatl push --host https://docat.company.io ./docs/ myproject v1.0.0

or with an explicit build step and push an artifact:

docatl build ./docs --host https://docat.company.io --projecy myproject --version v1.0.0
docatl push ./docs_myproject_v1.0.0.zip

Supported commands:

• push: pushing documentation to a docat server
• tag: tag a documentation on a docat server
• claim: claim a documentation project on a docat server
• delete: delete documentation from a docat server
• build: build a documentation artifact to push to a docat server

Installation

• Binaries for your platform are attached to each release here
• Container images are available on ghcr.io here

Using Go

You can install the package using go directly:

go install github.com/docat-org/docatl@latest

The docatl binary will be placed in $GOPATH/bin.

Using wget / curl

You can use wget or curl to download a release. Make sure that you are using the correct version and platform names in the URL.

E.g downloading v0.1.0 for Linux x86_64:

wget https://github.com/docat-org/docatl/releases/download/v0.1.0/docatl_0.1.0_Linux_x86_64 -O ~/bin/docatl

Using docker

You can run docatl in a docker container:

docker run -v $PWD:/docs ghcr.io/docat-org/docatl:latest push ./docs.zip myproject v1.0.0

Notice that your $PWD will be mounted as volume to the containers /docs directory. The .docatl.yaml and ./docs.zip file (in the example case) are relative to that /docs directory.

Ci System Support

We build a Container Image you can use in your Ci system.

GitLab Ci

Use the following Job template to publish the docs:

deploy-docs:
  image: ghcr.io/docat-org/docatl:latest-alpine
  variables:
    DOCATL_HOST: https://docat.company.io
    DOCATL_API_KEY: blabla
    DOCATL_PROJECT: $CI_PROJECT_NAME
    DOCTAL_VERSION: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
  script:
    - push ./docs

Automatically tag with latest:

deploy-docs:
  image: ghcr.io/docat-org/docatl:latest-alpine
  variables:
    DOCATL_HOST: https://docat.company.io
    DOCATL_API_KEY: blabla
    DOCATL_PROJECT: $CI_PROJECT_NAME
    DOCTAL_VERSION: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
  script:
    - push ./docs --tag latest

Note: you must use the -alpine variant on the container image, because GitLab Ci needs a shell.

Configuration

You can configure docatl with either command line arguments, env variables and/or a config file (evaluated in that order of precedence).

Config File

The config file must be at the working directory at .docatl.yaml, e.g.:

host: https://docat.company.io
api-key: blabla

Environment Variable

The DOCATL_ must be used, e.g.:

DOCATL_API_KEY=blabla docatl push ...

Shell auto-completion

Run docatl completion to install auto-completion for your shell.

Pronounciation

docatl must strictly be pronounced with an Austrian accent, see proof from @randombenj:

OMG. You could have just used curl

Yes, absolutely. However, there are a few advantages when using docatl. Some of those are:

• easily discover the interaction points with docat using docatl help
• easily work with configuration using a config file or environment variables
• nice error messages
• don't have to bother with all the unnessecary flags for this use case curl provide
• standalone binary for your platform available
• container image available to run in your Continuous Integration platform

Not convinced? Use curl ;)