Platform

Platform infrastructure and DevOps practices

Articles

How To

• Baking New AWS AMI Images
  Runbook for creating new Base and Rails AMI images

• Building a Personal Sandbox Environment
  This is a guide to follow when you are standing up your own personal development environment, aka “sandbox”

• Deploying Infrastructure Code
  Runbook for the process of deploying code from 18f/identity-devops into our infrastructure.

• Infrastructure auto-terraform Runbook
  How to use/manage/understand auto-terraform

• Load Testing Process
  Process overview and instruction for performing load tests in AWS

• Platform Disaster Runbooks
  Recovering from really really bad stuff

• Platform On-Call Guide
  Runbook/guide for rotations/responsibilities for the Login.gov Platform engineering teams.

• Platform Scaling
  Runbooks for scaling out or up various resources in anticipation of or response to added load

• Setting Up aws-vault
  This runbook is for getting set up with, and using, aws-vault, a tool for providing easier access for cross-account role assumption.

References

• Custom Aliases/Functions for identity-devops Commands
  Reference/runbook for the custom commands created via the login-alias script.

• External Services and Limits
  Notes on rate and cost limited external services used by IdP and out platform

Team

• Acceptance Criteria for Platform PRs and Issues
  How to create and manage pull requests and issues for the Login.gov Platform Teams.

• Team Radia Sprint Ceremonies
  How Sprints and Standups operate

Other Articles

• AWS Accounts and IAM Groups/Roles
  Private list of AWS accounts, roles, and groups for human users

• AWS IAM User/Group/Role/Account Configurations
  Detailed information about our IAM configurations, and how to add/alter IAM components within our infrastructure.

• Email Routing
  Inbound and outbound SMTP information

• GitLab
  GitLab Setup

• GitLab Environment Deploys
  How to use GitLab to deploy your sandbox IdP environments

• GitLab Image Signing
  GitLab Image Signing

• GitLab Production Deploys
  How to deploy changes to the production GitLab system

• Infrastructure Metrics and Alerting
  Troubleshooting quick reference for infrastructure metrics and alerting, to analyze trends and track outages

• Making Changes via Terraform
  This is a guide to the various terraform directories in identity-devops and how to use them

• Platform Tips and Tricks
  Helpful tips for AWS, Terraform, and other platform related tech

• Platform: Secrets!
  List of configuration secrets and how to manage them