Is this your directory structure? Are you using Docker so you can avoid downloading MkDocs? Are you having a hard time getting MkDocs to create a docs/
folder inside of your root that is intergrated with gh-pages without jumping through some hoops?
├── app/
└── mkdocs/
├── <mkdocs files>
├── dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
└── mkdocs.yml