Hi there
We're currently doubling down on our IT documentation in Confluence. A main topic of discussion is: Where should things be documented and how do we make it dynamic enough to avoid duplicated content. Let's take the following example:
I have a firewall on which I run services such as Network filtering, ssl-vpn and so on. Now, ssl-vpn itself relies again on other services outside the firewall. Let's say some on-prem gateway and a domain. In my understanding it now makes sense to create a page for the firewall and one page for ssl-vpn. But what I also want is some kind of relation between the two pages so when I open the firewall document I always know what services are related to it. How do you guys do this? The whole thing should be as dynamic as possible so I don't need to update multiple pages whenever I perform a change.
Here's what I've tested:
Do you have any smarter ideas on how to achieve that?
Cheers!
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I'd explore 2-3 options depending on how 'wholesale' you need to share the content and how granular your shareable bits and piece are.
Now, a specific example. Two years ago, I created a proof concept for https://www.turris.cz/en/ using the Scroll apps.
They had three devices which shared about 60% of the OS. Then there were overlaps between random pairs. And there was unrelated content that they wanted to share in individual docs. I was able to have it all in one Confluence space and just use the scroll apps to determine which content appears in which devices' docs.
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You could to look into Confluence databases, or look at discover-relevant-content-with-related-pages or insert-links-and-anchors
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