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kikx
kikx
  • Tutorials
    • Your first project with the CLI
    • Build an Ansible platform in the dashboard
  • How-to guides
    • Import an existing Ansible inventory
    • Write a multi-play playbook with role conditions
    • Manage group vars as YAML or a folder
    • Wire playbooks together with a site playbook
    • Scaffold the roles your playbooks use
    • Resolve file conflicts and checks
    • Share a project as a preset
    • Export the architecture to draw.io
    • Render your own component from a registry item
  • Reference
    • CLI
    • Components
    • HTTP API
    • Configuration
    • Preset format
    • Registry item format
    • Checks
  • Explanation
    • Vendoring real files
    • The registry as single source of truth
    • How rendering works
    • How the architecture diagram is drawn
    • How the pieces fit together
  • Contributing
    • Run kikx locally
    • Development
    • Releasing
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Explanation¶

Explanation gives background and context. These pages discuss why kikx works the way it does and the design decisions behind it.

  • Vendoring real files
  • The registry as single source of truth
  • How rendering works
  • How the architecture diagram is drawn
  • How the pieces fit together
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