This document lists known external dependencies for the CMS. Official points of contact for each service are listed. Other points of contact for some services are listed on DSVA Slack.
| Service | Content | Mode | Monitoring | Escalation Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GovDelivery | Situation updates & alerts are sent to subscribed users via GovDelivery | Uses govdelivery_bulletins module to post data to the GovDelivery API endpoint | See Below | https://support.granicus.com/s/contactsupport | |
| Facility, cemetery, and health services (via Lighthouse API) | See Below | See Below | https://valighthouse.statuspage.io | #vsa-facilities slack channel - Adam Stinton | API paths are overridden by settings.php |
| facilityForms API (nightly DB dump) | Form data (names, filenames, audiences, status) and creates/updates “VA Form” nodes | Nightly Migration | #va-forms slack channel | ||
| Github Action (manual & automatically triggered content releases) | Editors can trigger a content release either manually or by editing certain content types | Calls jenkins webhook | http://jenkins.vfs.va.gov/computer/ | Ops team (use #vfs-platform-support) | |
| Slack (notifications) | Post API failure alerts, Teamsite facility status failure alerts | Drupal calls Slack webhook | https://status.slack.com/ | ||
| SSOi (must be on VA network to access doc) | CMS users are authenticated with the VA Single Sign On service (SSOi) | See README | https://iamportal.iam.va.gov/iamv2/index.php (must be on VA network) | https://iamportal.iam.va.gov/iamv2/help/contactUs.php (must be on VA network) | |
| Unbound DNS | Forwards (and caches) DNS requests from TIC to AWS Route 53 DNS servers | Facilitates access to internal services from within network, e.g. CAG access to CMS | Datadog synthetic | Ops team (use #vfs-platform-support) |
Monitoring
- Alerting
- Slack notifications via Sentry from Drupal errors.
- Error logs
/admin/reports/dblog?type%5B%5D=govdelivery_bulletins(ephemeral)- https://sentry.vfs.va.gov/organizations/vsp/issues/?query=logger%3Agovdelivery_bulletins
- Internal
- External
The following services can affect the CMS's functionality or data at any time.
Operating hours, Contact information, names for all facilities (VHA facilities, vet centers, cemeteries, business offices)
- README
- VAMC & Vet Center Facility statuses
- Cemetery statuses
- Facility health services (covid only now, all services soon)
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Nightly migration pulls data from the Lighthouse API from the following periodic tasks:
va/background/daily/migrate/nca_facilityva/background/daily/migrate/vba_facilityva/background/daily/migrate/vet_centers_facilityva/background/daily/migrate/health_care_local_facility
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Migration configs:
- migrate_plus.migration.va_node_facility_nca.yml
- migrate_plus.migration.va_node_facility_vba.yml
- migrate_plus.migration.va_node_facility_vet_centers.yml
- migrate_plus.migration.va_node_facility_vet_centers_mvc.yml
- migrate_plus.migration.va_node_facility_vet_centers_os.yml
- migrate_plus.migration.va_node_health_care_local_facility.yml
The following services can affect the deployment process' ability to fully build the CMS for testing or production deployment.
| Service | Url | Status | Escalation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remi Repo | rpms.remirepo.net | none | Tweet @RemiRepository and open issue at https://forum.remirepo.net/ | Remi Repo is used to pull in the PHP 7.3 libraries and dependencies in our AMI builds. This won't be used when we switch from Amazon Linux 1 to Amazon Linux 2 when we move to containers on ArgoKube |
| Drupal packages | packages.drupal.org | @drupal_infra on Twitter | Drupal packages is used to download Drupal contrib modules | |
| Packagist | https://status.packagist.org/ | Tweet at @packagist. It is used by thousands of sites so highly likely that someone knows about any issues before we do and that it will be resolved quickly. | Packagist is used to install our PHP dependencies that are required by Drupal custom and contrib modules. | |
| Github | https://www.githubstatus.com/ | Use the #github_information channel in DSVA slack | The codebase is stored in github, and the deployment process depends on it to pull code and push status and code quality messages to our pull requests. | |
| ZenHub | https://twitter.com/zenhubstatus | ZenHub is a project management layer on top of GitHub Issues that we use. | ||
| Docker Hub | https://status.docker.com/ | Contact [email protected] and/or tweet @Docker | We use Docker Hub to pull down container images for our CI environments in Tugboat. |
There are a number of services that Composer uses to download and install dependencies. These services are used during the build process and are not required for runtime.