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Hosting

Introduction

All the environments are hosted on AWS provided by DSIT ICS.

This means we have no direct control of how the infrastructure is setup or managed, depending on what your goal is, you may have to work with DSIT ICS.

Getting an account

You will first need to get a digital-paas-production-account. Which will need to be done via DIST. dxw support may be able to help, but work with your delivery manager and DSIT colleges first.

Once you get an account you will have:

  • username
  • password
  • MFA
  • signin url

Once signed in you will need to assume a role for each environment, see below.

Region

All services are in the 'London (eu-west-2)' region.

Services

A brief overview of the AWS services used:

  • Elastic Container Service (ECS)
  • EC2
  • Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • CodeBuild
  • CodeDeploy
  • CodePipeline
  • CloudWatch

For details on how deployments work, see the deployment documentation.

For details of how to get a console in an environment, see the console access documentation.

Assuming roles

Each environment has its own role that you will need to assume in order to interact with it.

The role variables are stored in the RODA vault in the dxw 1Password, you need access to it first.

Once you have a digital-paas-production-account account and 1Password vault access, sign into AWS and assume the role for the appropriate environment:

  • From the user menu, top right of the window, click on the Switch role button
  • Locate the RODA 1Password vault and the AWS environment roles note
  • copy and paste the values from the note to the Switch Role form
  • click on the 'Switch role' button

You will see that your role has changed in the top right of the window, you can now view the environment, check deploys, connect to the console, etc.