State of One Platform - January 2021

This is a summary of the development goals achieved by the One Platform team in the month of January 2021. This month the team had the following goals:

• Application Development:

  • Lightweight Feedback SPA (Vue.js) development complete
  • Revamped Notifications framework development
  • DSAL migrated to One Platform
  • Microservices' enhancements

• Infrastructure update:

  • Migration of QA environment from PSI to MPaaS
  • In conversation with IT on Catchpoint adoption and configuration

• Component Library:

  • Initial storybook support for the components

OKRs

Objectives	Status	IMP Summary from Key Results
Accelerate and provide consistent SPA development & delivery experience	On Track	Revamped Notifications & Feedback are In Progress. User Groups rover integration is In Progress. Extending Home Service as Developer Console service. List of use cases for polishing microservices & SPAs are as in table below.
Evolve one.redhat.com as a single place to host internal applications and accessible outside VPN.	On Track	Documentation update on the Feedback, API layer, WebComponent & Other microservices. Expected to be completed by the end of February. Infrastructure readiness for QA, Stage and Production on Managed Platform.

Polishing microservice/SPA use cases:

Microservice	Use Cases	Status
Feedback	As per the new use cases list	In Progress
Notifications	As per the new use cases list	In Progress
Search	Rover integration.	In Progress
	Suggestions based on user search history.	Not Started
User Groups	Rover integration to get user data	In Progress
	Build API authorization based on user-groups	Not Started
Home Service (convert into Developer Console Service)	Change Home Service schema into Developer Console schema	In Progress
	Build APIs for managing Projects/Apps for the developer console	In Progress
API gateway	Periodic GraphQL IntrospectSchema refresh, for up-to-date schema on the API Gateway	Not Started
SSI	Shorter version of SSI	Not Started

Key highlights

The team was able to close 11 JIRAs across a range of development priorities and was able to push 13 issues to “Development Complete”. The highlights are :

• Application development and readiness
  • Native Apps:
    • API Gateway: API update to manage API keys generated.
    • Feedback: Next version of Feedback app developed, Dynamic target integration with Gitlab, JIRA, GitHub ready to use.
    • Developer Console: New microservice implementation in progress which aggregates all the SPA and microservices configurations at a single place.
    • Notifications: Enhancements in SPA & Microservice are completed. Implementation underway for requirements of DXP Drupal Properties.
    • User Groups and Authorization: Enhancements implemented.
    • Home: Categorization of deployed SPAs into Native & Non-native categories.
  • Non Native Apps:
    • Research Repository: Included additional content type in the results & Enhancements in analytics dashboard.
    • DSAL: Released to production on One Platform. Ongoing development for DSAL Dashboard.
    • MoD Handovers: Feedback addressed which are reported via feedback module.
  • Component Library:
    • Storybook: Basic support of storybook for the components.
• Onboarding:
  • Onboarding app list readiness
  • GDPR deployed on Stage
  • In conversation with Pantheon and IR Dashboard

What's coming?

• SPA Onboarding

  • GDPR: Deploy GDPR on the Production environment.
  • Pantheon: Discussions underway. Timelines will be communicated in the next Jan’21 blog.
  • Life Cycle: Initiate the conversation with Feng Wang (fwang@redhat.com).

• Development and Adoption Priorities

  • DSAL: Stats and Ansible Dashboard development and release to users(continued). Completion of DSAL application.
  • Feedback: Integration with Developer Console and Explore opportunities to use Qualtrics.
  • Notifications (impact on OKR): Integration with Developer Console for consistent developers experience.
  • Developer Console (impact on OKR): Implementation of Developer Console SPA based upon approved UX designs. Feedback/Notifications top priority(continued)
  • Research Repository: Further enhancements and feature development. Completion of Research Repository application.
  • Status Dashboard: A simple status page for the One Platform properties (SPA/Microservices) uptime and performance.

• One Platform Test Automation: Automated end-to-end testing for One Platform initial set of modules, in collaboration with the QE team. Create one POD in MPaaS to deploy a test runner app created by the QA team to test infrastructure readiness.

For more updates related to One Platform, please check out the One Platform Blog at: one.redhat.com/get-started/blog

Meta

Completed Sprint: OP – 21.01

Ongoing/Upcoming Sprint: OP - 21.02

One Platform: one.redhat.com

JIRA: https://projects.engineering.redhat.com/projects/ONEPLAT/issues

GitHub: https://github.com/1-Platform/one-platform/issues

Questions

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