[Support Slackbot] Application onboarding request (EKS)

[rmtolmach]

Summary

Currently the VA Support bot is deployed to Heroku. There are a number of good reasons to have this running on Platform infrastructure.

Overview

• The Platform leverages container orchestration to host and deploy software applications
• Container orchestration automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
• To learn more, see "Application Hosting and Deployment using Container Orchestration (EKS)"

Guidance

• Please fill out the sections below with as much info as possible
• If you don't have info or know the answer to a given prompt, it's okay to leave it blank
• The Infrastructure Team will assist you with gathering requirements and performing key setup and configuration tasks

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Description of application

/support Slack bot is used by VFS and Platform teams to request support in #vfs-platform-support in DSVA Slack.

Basic info:

Team Name:
SRE Team Application Name:
platform-support-slackbot
Functionality:
See description Language/Stack:
JavaScript (using bolt.js framework) Ports/Networking needed:
TBD Other infrastructure needed:
Backend data storage

• currently a google sheet.
• may want RDS database. TBD.

Background/Context/Resources

Epic: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/37793

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Onboarding checklist

*The responsible parties are listed below each item in the checklist

Application repository and container

• [ ] GitHub repo: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/platform-support-slackbot Note: app should conform to the 12 factor app methodology | Docs
  Requesting team; Infrastructure Team can assist
• [ ] Dockerfile: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/platform-support-slackbot/blob/master/Dockerfile Docs
  Requesting team; Infrastructure Team can assist

Application delivery pipeline (CI/CD)

• [ ] AWS service account for GitHub actions, ie svc-gha-team-name | Request here Infrastructure Team
• [ ] AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repository for the app container: provide name of ECR repo here
  Infrastructure Team | PRs welcome
• [ ] Automation to release and tag the app's GitHub repo with a semantic version number | Example | Docs
  Requesting team; Infrastructure Team can assist
• [ ] Automation to push the app's container to ECR with a semantic version number | Example
  Note: Don't use default "latest" tag. The release system uses modified container image tags to synchronize automation. Requesting team; Infrastructure Team can assist
• [ ] Kubernetes manifest in YAML, Jsonnet, or Helm Chart in vsp-infra-application-manifests | Example | Docs
  Note: must be compatible with ArgoCD
  Requesting team; Infrastructure Team can assist
• [ ] Automation to update the Kubernetes manifest when a new version of the app's container is pushed to ECR | Example
  Requesting team; Infrastructure Team can assist

Application secrets and parameters

• [ ] AWS SSM Parameter Store path created for your team or app, ie /dsva-vagov/team-name/ | Request here
  Infrastructure Team
• [ ] AWS SSM Parameter Store parameters that the app needs to run, ie /dsva-vagov/team-name/env/secret-name | Docs
  Requesting team

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Notes

• Please add comments to this issue as checklist items are completed, and...
• Tag the Infrastructure Team's product manager and product owner to help expedite the process

[powellkerry]

Closed in favor of duplicate issue: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/40990