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Developer On-boarding

Purpose

This document describes the on-boardng steps for new Developers when they join the team.

You can request access to the following by asking in the #digital-tools-support slack channel

DevOps steps

Getting familiar with AKS

You will need to request space developer access every day in order to gain access to production. See the AKS cheatsheet to learn how to do this, and for other helpful tips.

Azure CIP

You will need a CIP account in order to raise a PIM (Privileged Identity Management) request to change environment variables or access nightly database backups. Steps on how to register for a CIP account and raise a PIM request can be found in the DfE Technical Guidance.

Access to QA, Sandbox and Production

  • Navigate to the Support Sign in page: QA, Staging and production
  • If you already have a DfE Sign-in account, log in. If you do not click, Create account and follow the instructions
  • Once you have successfully logged in, you should see a page stating your DfE Sign-in UUID
  • Ask a colleague who has support access for the environment you are trying to access to go to the Add support user page and add your email address and your UUID (from the last step).

Note: You can also navigate to the Add Support User page by logging into support and clicking Settings, Support users and Add support user

Additional reading

Have a read through:

Developer Slack Channels

These are a small number of recommended Slack channels for new developers to join

  • Join #apply-dev-notifications for GitHub notifications from the Apply teacher training and Find/Publish for teacher training codebases

  • #civil_servant_devs is a channel for civil servant developers. Join if you would like to be part of ongoing developer discussion, meet ups and technical talks. This is a private channel, so ask a permanent developer within Teacher Services to invite you.

  • #developers is a generic channel for anything technical related. It's for developers across DfE, not just in Teaching Workforce Directorate.

  • #twd_developers is a channel for discussion between developers within the Teaching Workforce Directorate. Also join if you want to take part in developer meet ups on Wednesdays at 15:00, every fortnight

  • #twd_find_and_apply_tech is a channel for all technical discussion relating to the Apply postgraduate teacher training and Find/Publish for teacher training codebases

  • For all Teacher services infrastructure related topics, join #teacher-services-infra