Provide.io Ecosystem Documentation

Welcome to the comprehensive documentation hub for the provide.io ecosystem - a collection of Python tools and frameworks for building Terraform providers, packaging applications, and managing development workflows.

Key Features

• Centralized documentation for the provide.io ecosystem.
• Shared MkDocs theme and doc tooling for consistent docs across packages.
• Guides for building, publishing, and extending ecosystem docs.

🚀 Quick Start

# Set up the entire ecosystem
cd /path/to/provide-workspace
uv sync --all-groups
source .venv/bin/activate

📚 Documentation

The documentation is built with MkDocs Material and covers:

• Getting Started: Installation and first steps
• Ecosystem: Architecture and design principles
• Packages: Individual package documentation
• Guides: Cross-package integration guides
• API Reference: Complete API documentation

Development

• See CLAUDE.md for local development notes.
• Run mkdocs serve in this repo for a live docs preview.

🤝 Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for ecosystem-wide contribution guidelines.

📄 License

All packages in the provide.io ecosystem are licensed under Apache-2.0 unless otherwise specified.

🛠 Building Documentation

The documentation system uses a modern, DRY approach with shared configuration:

Architecture Overview

• Shared Base Configuration (base-mkdocs.yml) - Common theme, plugins, and extensions
• Centralized Theme (src/provide/foundry/theme/) - Namespace package with CSS, JavaScript, and assets
  • Install: uv pip install -e . for editable development
• Monorepo Plugin - Automatic aggregation of all project documentation
• Auto-Generated API Docs - Build-time generation using mkdocs-gen-files
• Canonical Makefile (Makefile.provider.tmpl) - Standardized provider Makefile template

Building the Documentation

# Install dependencies
cd provide-foundry
uv sync

# Serve documentation locally (all projects)
we run docs.serve
# or: uv run mkdocs serve

# Build complete documentation site
we run docs.build
# or: uv run mkdocs build --clean

# Validate documentation (strict mode)
uv run mkdocs build --strict

# Clean documentation artifacts
we run docs.clean

# Check links (fast, internal only)
we run docs.links.check

# Check all links including external
we run docs.links.external

Building Individual Project Documentation

Each project can build documentation independently:

# Navigate to any project
cd ../pyvider

# Use wrknv tasks
we run docs.build       # Build documentation
we run docs.serve       # Serve locally
we run docs.clean       # Clean artifacts
we run docs.links.check # Check links

# Or use mkdocs directly
uv run mkdocs build
uv run mkdocs serve

Documentation Structure

provide-foundry/                    # Documentation hub
├── base-mkdocs.yml                # Shared configuration (inherited by all projects)
├── mkdocs.yml                     # Documentation site configuration
├── Makefile.provider.tmpl         # Canonical provider Makefile template
├── scripts/
│   └── gen_ref_pages.py          # Shared API doc generator
├── src/provide/foundry/           # Namespace package
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── py.typed
│   ├── docs/
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   └── gen_ref_pages.py      # API documentation generator
│   └── theme/                     # Centralized theme assets
│       ├── __init__.py
│   ├── stylesheets/
│   ├── javascripts/
│   └── data/
└── docs/                          # Hub-specific documentation

Individual Projects:
provide-foundation/
├── mkdocs.yml                     # Inherits from base-mkdocs.yml
├── Makefile                       # Standard project Makefile
└── docs/                          # Project-specific docs
    ├── index.md
    ├── guides/
    └── reference/                 # Auto-generated at build time

📦 Ecosystem Packages

Foundation Layer

• provide-foundation - Core telemetry and logging infrastructure
• provide-testkit - Testing utilities and fixtures

Pyvider Framework

• pyvider - Core Terraform provider framework
• pyvider-cty - CTY type system implementation
• pyvider-hcl - HCL parsing with CTY integration
• pyvider-rpcplugin - gRPC plugin protocol implementation
• pyvider-components - Standard components library
• terraform-provider-pyvider - Official Pyvider provider

Tools & Utilities

• flavorpack - PSPF packaging system for executable bundles
• wrknv - Work environment management
• plating - Documentation generation for providers
• tofusoup - Cross-language conformance testing
• supsrc - Automated Git commit/push utility

🏗 Architecture

The provide.io ecosystem follows a layered architecture:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Tools Layer                      │
│  flavorpack │ wrknv │ plating │ tofusoup │ supsrc  │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                  Framework Layer                    │
│  pyvider │ pyvider-cty │ pyvider-hcl │ pyvider-*   │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                 Foundation Layer                    │
│       provide-foundation │ provide-testkit         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

📝 Adding Documentation to Projects

For New Projects

1. Create mkdocs.yml inheriting from base configuration:

   # Inherit shared configuration from provide-foundry
   INHERIT: ../provide-foundry/base-mkdocs.yml
   
   # Project-Specific Configuration
   site_name: Your Project Documentation
   site_url: https://foundry.provide.io/your-project/
   dev_addr: '127.0.0.1:8XXX'  # Use unique port
   

2. Extract standardized task definitions to wrknv.toml:

   # Extract canonical wrknv.toml for Python library projects
   from provide.foundry.config import extract_python_wrknv_tasks
   from pathlib import Path
   
   # Fresh extraction (no merge)
   extract_python_wrknv_tasks(Path('.'), merge=False)
   
   # Or merge with existing wrknv.toml (preserves custom tasks/config)
   extract_python_wrknv_tasks(Path('.'), merge=True)
   

   The template provides standardized tasks for all Python projects:

   • Testing: test, test.unit, test.integration, test.coverage, test.parallel
   • Quality: lint, format, typecheck, quality
   • Build: build, clean
   • Docs: docs.build, docs.serve, docs.clean, docs.links.check
   • Development: dev.setup, dev.test, dev.check
   • CI/CD: ci, ci.test, ci.quality

3. Include shared Makefile targets (DEPRECATED - use wrknv.toml instead):

   # Extract canonical Makefile for terraform-provider-* projects
   from provide.foundry.config import extract_makefile_provider
   from pathlib import Path
   extract_makefile_provider(Path('.'))
   

4. Configure API documentation by adding gen-files plugin:

   plugins:
     - gen-files:
         scripts:
           - docs/scripts/gen_api.py  # Wrapper imports from provide.foundry.docs
     - literate-nav:
         nav_file: SUMMARY.md
   

Documentation Guidelines

• All documentation uses Markdown with Material theme extensions
• API documentation is auto-generated from Python docstrings at build time
• Use Google-style docstrings for consistent API documentation
• Project documentation lives in <project>/docs/ directory
• API reference is auto-generated in <project>/docs/reference/ at build time

Copyright (c) provide.io LLC.