Onboarding checklist for Kshitiz Shrestha

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Overview

Welcome to the VA.Gov Platform. This ticket is a checklist and guide to help you get access to communications, documentation, and tools used by technical project teams.

Checklist

EQIP / PIV / RA

EQIP - Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing PIV - Personal Identity Verification RA - Remote Access

If you're new to the VA, an EQIP submission is needed to obtain VA credentials and a PIV card

• [x] Submit EQIP
• [x] Obtain PIV card Note: AWS access can be granted once the EQIP has been submitted before the PIV card is received
• [x] Set up TMS account and take required trainings
• [ ] Ensure COR submits a request on your behalf for RA to the VA network

Communications

Platform coordination

• [ ] Share your calendar with VSP teams: va-vsp-team@oddball.io and vsp-team.group@adhocteam.us
• [x] Ensure you're in Google Groups va-vsp-team and va-vsp-engineering. Use /support in #vfs-platform-support to request access.
• [x] Ensure you have access to the Google Drive folder "VSP team"
• [x] Ensure you're in Github Teams
  • vets-gov-write - Grants access to these repos | vets-website, content-build, devops, vets-api
  • vsp-operations DevOps Only
  • Check with your PM for any specific GH teams you may need to be added to
• [ ] DSVA Slack Workspace
  • [x] #platform-cop-(frontend? devops?)
  • [x] #platform-team
  • [x] #vfs-all-teams
  • [x] #vfs-platform-support
  • [x] #platform-tech-team-support

Team coordination

• [x] Meet the team
• [ ] How we work
• [ ] ZenHub

Documentation

• [x] Request access to tools documentation on the Platform Website
• [x] Confluence
  • [ ] VA.Gov Platform Manual

Platform overview and design

• [x] Overview of the VA.Gov Platform
• [ ] VA.Gov Platform system design and architecture

Developer tools

• [x] GitHub
  • [x] Join the 'department-of-veterans-affairs' organization
  • [x] Get access to the devops repo
• [x] SOCKS - for remote access to the following apps:
  • [x] Jenkins
  • [x] Sentry
  • [x] Grafana
  • [x] Argo CD
  • [ ] Prometheus - not used directly but can be useful to understand legacy metrics gathering
• [x] Pagerduty - ask a team member for access
• [x] Keybase
• [x] Datadog - ask your PM or TL to submit a request on your behalf
• [x] AWS access request - can be submitted early, but won't be approved until EQIP submission is verified

Once your PIV card has been obtained:

• [x] Citrix Access Gateway (CAG)
• [ ] Venafi DevOps Only

[considerable]

Hello @ph-One @Kshitiz-devops is a new DevOps on Tech Support Team. Can you add Kshitiz to vsp-operations group or otherwise provide access to devops repo?

[considerable]

Hello @timwright12 Please add @Kshitiz-devops to Google Groups va-vsp-team and va-vsp-engineering.

[alyssagallion]

@Kshitiz-devops Do you need anything else on this? I see there are some unchecked boxes and wanted to be sure you were onboarded. If all is complete, please close. If not all is complete, let me know what ya need from me!