OSCAL-Reference

This repository houses the infrastructure for the OSCAL model generation pipeline.

Usage

1. Clone the repository and initialize submodules:

git clone
cd OSCAL-Reference
git submodule update --init

• the OSCAL repository is quite large and when your internet connection is slow the default submodules init may take a while. Hence, to show progress on submodules init you may want to use the --progress option (available in git >= v2.11.0) in the following command:

git submodule update --init  --progress

2. Generate the site

make site

To see other common operations, refer to the Makefile or simply run make help.

Local development

The target make serve runs builds the site and runs hugo serve.

Link-checking

This repository uses Lychee to crawl the built site for bad external and internal links. To perform link-checking, run the target make linkcheck. The link checker produces a report, nominally located at ./lychee_report.md.

Lychee is configured to ignore URL patterns present in the ./support/lychee.toml.

Additional configuration can be specified using the Makefile variable LYCHEE_EXTRA_FLAGS:

# Cache server responses to save bandwidth on repeated runs
make linkcheck LYCHEE_EXTRA_FLAGS='--cache'

Speeding up the build

Some tasks such as generating the model documentation can be done in parallel for each target release.

Passing the -j <number> flag will allow for parallel execution of makefile targets and can significantly speed up build times. Pass in an appropriate value (usually the core count of the current machine), e.x.:

make site -j 8