Onboarding checklist for Ben Allen

[ph-One]

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

• [ ] Submit EQIP
• [ ] Obtain PIV card Note: AWS access can be granted once the EQIP has been submitted before the PIV card is received
• [ ] 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
• [x] 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
• [x] How we work
• [x] ZenHub

Documentation

• [ ] Request access to tools documentation on the Platform Website
• [x] Confluence
  • [x] 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
• [ ] SOCKS - for remote access to the following apps:
  • [ ] Jenkins
  • [ ] Sentry
  • [ ] Grafana
  • [ ] Argo CD
  • [ ] Prometheus - not used directly but can be useful to understand legacy metrics gathering
• [ ] Pagerduty - ask a team member for access
• [x] Keybase
• [ ] 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:

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

[ben-allen-oddball]

Submitted AWS Access request: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/58723

[EWashb]

@ben-allen-oddball are you still waiting on any of these items? Anything I can help with from the VA side?

[npeterson54]

Still a WIP, adding into next sprint