Continuous Documentation: Automating Document Preparation with your DevSecOps Pipeline

Abstract

End item deliveries to government customers are usually accompanied by a multitude of required documents, typically in print-ready formats such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Preparing these documents requires tedious manual collation and re-formatting of data from a multitude of data sources, which takes a significant amount of labor, is error-prone, and incurs lengthy review and approval cycles.How can we modernize our document preparation to support continuous release and delivery? Continuous Documentation (CDoc)! By leveraging the Authoritative Sources of Truth (ASOTs) for data already within our DevSecOps pipelines, we can extend the concept of “Documents as Code” (DaC) to reliably and repeatably automate document preparation using a suite of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) tools. Continuous Documentation ensures documents are ready for delivery and release in the print-ready formats customers expect at the same time as the software they accompany.