1.0.0

Getting Started

Onboarding: Welcome to the SKA developer community
Contributing to the SKA
Configuring your development environment

Repositories

Projects by Area
List of projects and subgroups
Create a new project
Licensing a project

Development tools

Working with GitLab
Working with Jira
CI/CD
BDD testing guide
BDD Walkthrough
STFC: CI/CD & Testing Infrastructure
Containers: containerisation and deployment
BinderHub/JupyterHub
Documenting a project
Secret & Configuration Management
SKA Log Message Format
Centralised Monitoring, Logging & Debugging
Reporting and Management of Bugs
Coding guidelines
Frequently Asked Questions
SKAO Binary Artefacts Repository (BAR)
Feature Flags
Static analysis using SonarQube

Tutorials

Database Integration
MongoDB Database Integration
PostgreSQL Database Integration
Feature Flags Tutorials
Feature Flags with Unleash Python SDK
Feature Flags with Static Configuration
Feature Flags with Tango Framework
Feature Flagging with Unleash React Proxy Client
Building a OCI Image
Setup Minikube for local development
Use Vaults secrets in Kubernetes
GitLab CI/CD Vault Integration
Automate the Release Process Using Templates

How-To Guides

Linting Ansible Projects
Code Review
Git Configuration
GitLab Configuration
Analyse Core Dumps
Create work branch
Create merge request
Debugging with Coder
Deploying to Multiple SKAO Clusters
How to use VSCode Docker extension for Dockerfile development
Access and Browse Harbor
Linting Helm Charts
OCI Engine Installation Guide
Integrating CICD Makefile Submodule
Logging Solution
Monitoring Solution
Linting Notebooks
Linting OCI Projects
Building multiple OCI images
OCI Cache Priming - SKAO OCI Daemon
OCI Images Signature Management
Poetry to UV(+ Ruff) Migration
Push code and branch
Linting Python Projects
Enable and Customise CI/CD Security Scanning
Guide to Sharing Storage Between Namespaces in SKAO Clusters
Linting Terraform
How to rotate secrets with Vault Secrets Operator and Kubernetes
How to use Vault to supply Helm values in GitLab CI/CD pipelines

References

Feature Flags Reference
Deploy Minikube Reference
Software Package Release References
Vault

Explanations

Branching policy
Central Artefact Repository
Committing code
Containerization and OCI Engines
Continuous Integration
Feature Flags
Linting
Merge request
Merge Request Quality Checks
OCI Supply Chain
Optimize OCI Image Builds
Policy Agent
Software Supply Chain
Kubernetes based Runners Architecture
Vault Structure

Policies and Procedures

SKA Code of Conduct
Fundamental SKA Software Standards
Software Product Quality Assurance Plan
Software Development Security Policy
SKAO Compute Access Policy
Definition of Done
Software Testing Policy and Strategy
SKA developer community decision making process
Incident Management

Recommended Reading

System Design
Programming
Programming Languages

About the SKA

The SKA Organisation
SAFe® for SKA
Follow us on social media
Agile teams and responsibilities

Contribute to the Developer Portal

Contribute to the developer portal

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