In NetEye, we use Ansible to automate many different tasks in an idempotent way, ranging from the first installation of the system to updates and upgrades. Ansible already comes with many built-in useful modules to manage files, perform HTTPS requests and much more. Furthermore, various Ansible Collections have been developed by the community to address…
Read More
In my previous blog post, we saw how it’s possible to index some documents that we created by crawling our NetEye User Guide, then applying the ELSER model in Elasticsearch to create a bag of words for searching that takes into account the context of the various documents. Moreover, we also performed a simple query…
Read MoreIn a companion post we talked about how to create a custom theme for Sphinx, like the one we made for the new NetEye online user guide.Sometimes just a basic customization is not enough and you want to create something much more advanced. In this article, we’ll look at some more detailed custom parts. Custom…
Read MoreDuring this release we worked a lot to improve the NetEye User Guide. The new user guide is now independent of the NetEye product itself, it can be found online and its structure is greatly changed. By this I mean that we improved not only its content, but we also decided to use a more…
Read MoreMost small open source documentation projects use Markdown to create their project documentation. After all, it has a minimalistic and thus easy-to-learn syntax, does all the basics well, renders very quickly (even quickly enough to create a real-time WYSIWYG viewer), and is almost universally supported across popular web platforms like GitHub. At some point, though,…
Read More