Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Automation Project Website

The website for the FedRAMP Automation Project is maintained here.

Below are instructions for building the site for local development if making any contributions to the documentation.

The website is built using the Hugo static site generator and the United States Web Design System (USWDS).

Prerequisites

If using Docker:

• Docker 23.0+

If not using Docker:

• macOS, Linux or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) (model doc build scripts don't support Windows natively at this time)
• Hugo

Using Hugo

Hugo is a popular open source static site generator. It is a general-purpose framework that builds pages when the content is created or updated.

Instructions for installing the Hugo CLI on your OS can be found here.

The website's visual styling is also backed by the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) via an open source Hugo theme at https://github.com/usnistgov/hugo-uswds.

The USWDS framework is documented here: https://designsystem.digital.gov/.

Building the site with LiveReload

Hugo provides built-in LiveReload which watches for any changes to the source content and automatically reloads the site when changes are detected.

1. Pull the currently used USWDS Hugo theme revision to your locally cloned copy of the OSCAL repo by executing the following command from within the folder of the git repo

git submodule update --init

2. Verify that Hugo is installed

hugo version

NOTE: The extended version of Hugo is required. The reported version should include the word "extended".

3. Navigate into the website's root directory

4. Start the Hugo server

hugo server -v --debug --minify

alternatively, you may bind Hugo to a network adapter on your workstation using its assigned IP address

hugo server -v --debug --minify --bind [ipv4-address] -b http://[ipv4-address]:1313/fedramp-automation

5. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:1313/fedramp-automation to view the locally built site.

If you bound Hugo to an IP address, navigate to http://[ipv4-address]:1313/fedramp-automation either locally or with another device on the network.

Whenever you make any changes to the content with the Hugo server running, you'll notice that the site automatically updates itself to reflect those changes.

Developing with Docker

The website can also be developed and built using the included Docker resources.

Assuming you've installed Docker and Docker Compose for your system, you can build and serve the site using Docker Compose as follows:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

Once the site is running, it can be accessed at http://localhost:1313/.

Need installation help?

Do you have questions or need help with setup? Did you run into any weird errors while following these instructions? Feel free to open an issue here:

https://github.com/GSA/automate.fedramp.gov/issues.

You can also email us directly at [email protected].

Licenses and attribution

This project is in the worldwide public domain, released under the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

Contributing

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication alongside the public domain portions of this project. For more information, see CONTRIBUTING.md.