Onboarding checklist for Steven

[npeterson54]

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
• [x] Ensure COR submits a request on your behalf for RA to the VA network

Communications

Platform coordination

• [x] 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

• [x] 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
• [x] 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
  • [x] 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)
• [x] Venafi DevOps Only

[stoiven]

Going to update some stuff as I go:

Share your calendar with VSP teams: va-vsp-team@oddball.io and vsp-team.group@adhocteam.us

• I don't believe vsp-team.group@adhocteam.us exists or need to update documentation to ask to share. See attached screenshot. [Uploading... Screen Shot 2023-09-13 at 3.29.00 PM.png]

• Upon requesting access to va-vsp-engineering group, I'm required to go through a separate onboarding checklist: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/65611

[stoiven]

Just a nitpick, but dark mode does not pair well with a lot of the images in any of the documentation :)

[npeterson54]

Removing out of sprint since Steven is OOO