Developer Portal

The Diamond Light Source developer portal, built with backstage for deployment on kubernetes.

Developing Locally (VSCode)

• Load the docker-compose module, or:
  • Install docker-compose,
  • Start the podman socket with systemctl --user start podman.socket
  • Use the podman socket as the compose host by adding export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock to your ~/.bashrc
• Install ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers
• Set remote.containers.dockerPath to podman
• Set remote.containers.dockerComposePath to your docker-compose
• Disable buildkit by adding export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 to your ~/.bashrc
• Open Development Container
• Create a .env file in the .devcontainer directory containing the necessary secrets
• Install package dependencies with yarn --cwd backstage install
• Start the app, with yarn --cwd backstage dev

Deploying on Kubernetes (Diamond Light Source)

• Access the cluster with module load argus
• Adjust configuration in charts/developer-portal/values.yaml as appropriate, you will need to ingress secrets by either:
  • Populating the necessary secrets in their respective fields in backend.auth
  • Pointing to an existing secret containing the necessary secrets with backend.auth.existingSecret (recommended)

• Deploy the portal, with:

  cd charts/developer-portal
  helm install <deployment-name> .

Necessary secrets

In order to deploy this application, the following secrets are required

• GITHUB_TOKEN - a GitHub personal access token used to retrieve organisation & repository data, with:
  • read:org
  • read:user
  • user:email
• GITLAB_TOKEN - a GitLab personal access token used to retrieve organisation & repository data, with:
  • api
  • read_repository
  • write_repository
• GITHUB_APP_CLIENT_ID - a GitHub OAuth App client ID used to provide user authentication
• GITHUB_APP_SECRET - the corresponding GitHub OAuth App secret
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - a AWS S3 bucket access key ID used to retrieve techdocs from the object store, with:
  • s3:ListBucket
  • s3:GetObject
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - the corresponding AWS S3 bucket access key secret