diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 95e9639356c..b25a33fc130 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,15 +8,8 @@
 
 /_site/
 
-/.*
-!/.github
-!/.github/**
-
-/*.yml
-!/_config.yml
-!/_config.prod.yml
-!/_config.checks.yml
-!/_config.stage.yml
+_config.local.yml
+.jekyll-metadata
 
 *.bat
 /tmp/
diff --git a/Docfile.yml b/Docfile.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..40f8fc69ce6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Docfile.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+content_map:
+-
+  directory: guides/v2.0
+  repository: magento/devdocs
+  branch: 2.0
+  filter: false
+-
+  directory: guides/m1x
+  repository: magento/devdocs-m1
+  branch: master
+  filter: false
+-
+  directory: mbi
+  repository: magento/devdocs-mbi
+  branch: master
+  filter: true
+-
+  directory: mftf
+  repository: magento/magento2-functional-testing-framework
+  branch: develop
+  filter: true
+-
+  directory: page-builder
+  repository: magento-devdocs/magento2-page-builder
+  branch: develop
+  filter: true
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index c100a40e52c..2ba8f224524 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ require 'colorator'
 require_relative 'rakelib/lib/link-checker.rb'
 require_relative 'rakelib/lib/converter.rb'
 require_relative 'rakelib/lib/double-slash-check.rb'
+require_relative 'rakelib/lib/doc-config.rb'
 
 desc "Same as 'rake', 'rake preview'"
 task default: %w[preview]
diff --git a/rakelib/lib/doc-config.rb b/rakelib/lib/doc-config.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..361efe90a92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rakelib/lib/doc-config.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Read Docfile file and get configuration data for adding subrepositories
+class DocConfig
+  attr_reader :config
+  def initialize(config_file = 'Docfile.yml')
+    @config = YAML.load_file(config_file)
+  end
+
+  def content_map
+    @config['content_map']
+  end
+end
diff --git a/rakelib/multirepo.rake b/rakelib/multirepo.rake
index 25f7587403a..bbdad0f39a3 100644
--- a/rakelib/multirepo.rake
+++ b/rakelib/multirepo.rake
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
 namespace :multirepo do
-  desc 'Add content from external repositories'
+  desc 'Create a file tree for devdocs website and get all required content'
   task :init do
-    sh './scripts/docs-from-code.sh mbi git@github.com:magento/devdocs-mbi.git master'
-    sh './scripts/docs-from-code.sh page-builder git@github.com:magento-devdocs/magento2-page-builder.git develop'
-    sh './scripts/docs-from-code.sh mftf git@github.com:magento/magento2-functional-testing-framework.git develop'
+    ssh = 'git@github.com:'
+    https = 'https://${token}@github.com/'
+    protocol =
+      if ENV['token']
+        https
+      else
+        ssh
+      end
 
-    # The last argument 'false' disables content filtering by sparse checkout.
-    # It covers cases when we need entire repository, not only the '/docs/' directory.
-    sh './scripts/docs-from-code.sh guides/m1x git@github.com:magento/devdocs-m1.git master false'
-    sh './scripts/docs-from-code.sh guides/v2.0 git@github.com:magento/devdocs.git 2.0 false'
+    content_map = DocConfig.new.content_map
+    content_map.each do |subrepo|
+      sh "./scripts/docs-from-code.sh #{subrepo['directory']} #{protocol}#{subrepo['repository']}.git #{subrepo['branch']} #{subrepo['filter']}"
+    end
   end
 
   desc 'Add multirepo docs providing shell arguments "dir=<directory where to init a repo>", "repo=<SSH URL>", "branch=<branch to checkout>", "filter=<true/false>" ("true" by default) to 1) filter content if "true" or 2) add content from the entire repository if "false".'