Contingency Plan Training Wargames - Player's Guide

Overview

Login.gov’s “Contingency Plan Training Wargames” are a regular event that use a mix of process practice, chaos engineering, and group troubleshooting to hone skills and improve the readiness of our socio-technical system.

This guide provides some low-lift preparation options to help players feel more prepared to step into unfamiliar roles.

The more familiar a process is, the easier it is to perform in a real scenario. We want to make it easy and fun to participate in our wargames, even if you’re brand new to incident management.

Tech lead preparation list:

Equipment needed:

• Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)
  • This is necessary to use your yubikey, log into infrastructure, etc
• Yubikey

Useful sites to log into before wargames begin

• NewRelic
  • Requires SecureAuth login.
• AWS Console
  • Requires AWS username/password as well as a Yubikey MFA.
  • Use the PowerUser@login-sandbox role
  • Parts of the AWS console you may use:
    • CloudWatch to look at logs
    • EC2 to look at instances and autoscaling groups
    • Workload Dashboard of the environment that is being used for the war games

Useful things to have up in a browser:

• Incident response runbooks
• Troubleshooting Devops quick reference – includes devops commands
• Identity IdP Github
• Identity Devops Github

Optional

• Fun hat