Create a pull request with the content of the blog post placed in the drafts folder using the following file naming scheme: YYYY-MM-DD-post-title.extension. Blogs are written in AsciiDoc format with a file extension of .adoc. In the blog post file the following front matter variables must be set:

• layout: post
• title: title of the blog post
• categories: blog
• author_picture: secure url to author picture
  • If a picture cannot be found, the kabanero.io logo can be used instead https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/50876789
• author_github: secure url to author github
• blog_description: Description of blog post used in the preview card on kabanero.io/blog
  • Please keep your blog_description to around 60 words
• seo-title: Blog Title used in search results and on social media - Kabanero.io
  • Please ensure that your seo-title ends with - Kabanero.io
• seo-description: Blog Description used in search results and on social media
  • Please keep your seo-description between 50-300 characters

drafts folder contains blog posts that are still in draft and are not ready to be published

publish folder contains blog posts that are ready to be published

img folder contains images used in the blog adoc files. These images are copied over to the website's /img/blog dir during build.

1. Setup a local development environment by following the local setup
2. Put your .adoc file in src/main/content/_posts and refresh the site

If you would like to add a blog post that is actually a link to an existing third party blog post, you can follow the normal steps described above for creating a blog post. You simply need to add the following attributes to the liquid front matter:

• redirect_link: 'link'
• permalink: /blog/redirected.html