Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Ahmon

This is your primary onboarding document for the team. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256074

You

•  Done Get access to your `@wikimedia.org` email (should happen before your first day).
•  Done IRC
  •  Done Follow the IRC guide on meta wiki
  •  Done If you choose to use IRCCloud (recommended if you are unfamiliar with IRC), get added to the Wikimedia group account by emailing techsupport@wikimedia.org with the email you used to register (your `@wikimedia.org` email).
  •  Done Join public IRC channels (`#wikimedia-releng`, `#wikimedia-operations`, `#wikimedia-pipeline`, `#wikimedia-cloud`, `#wikimedia-cloud-admin` ).
  •  Done Note the channel descriptions.
  •  Done Skim the full list of Wikimedia channels
  •  Done Private message `thcipriani` when the above is complete.
•  Done Mailing lists and Google Groups (descriptions of the lists)
  •  Done Subscribe to ops@
  •  Done Subscribe to wikitech-l@
  •  Done Verify you are subscribed to Foundation Official and tech-all Google Groups. You may need to ask for assistance from Tyler for Foundation Official, or verify with someone in Office IT when you talk to them about comms.
•  Done Development accounts
  •  Done If you do not yet have one, request a YubiKey from Office IT.
  •  Done Create a Wikimedia developer account (aka: "LDAP account" or "wikitech account"). Follow the "VPS and General users" process.
  •  Done Add 2factor to your Wikimedia developer account
  •  Done Generate two ssh keys. One for production and one for your Wikimedia developer account.
  •  Done Ensure your "~/.ssh/config" is setup correctly
  •  Done Add the "wmfdev" ssh public key to your Wikimedia developer account.
  •  Done Register in Phabricator using your Wikimedia developer account.
  •  Done Associate your Wikimedia wiki account (created by OIT at https://meta.wikimedia.org/) with your Phabricator user account on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/external/
  •  Done Add 2factor to Phabricator login at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/multifactor/
  •  Done Add the `wmfdev` ssh public key to Phabricator.
  •  Done Follow the Gerrit tutorial. Add your `wmfdev` ssh key in Gerrit.
  •  Done If you have a GitHub user, request access to the Release Engineering team in the Wikimedia Foundation organization.
•  Done Server access
  •  Done Request access to production servers in these groups: `deployment`, `contint-admins`, and `contint-docker`. Use your `wmfprod` ssh public key.
  •  Done Add that request task as a subtask to this one.
•  Done Shared password management
  •  Done Create GPG key for use with our pwstore (if you don't already have one).
    •  Done https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/pgp-public-keys/+/608436
  • Ask Tyler to setup a team signing party.
•  Done Monitoring
  •  Done Once added to `wmf` LDAP group, make sure you can access Logstash.
  •  Done Bookmark: logstash, grafana, icinga, SAL
•  Done Add yourself to the Contact List on officewiki.
•  Done Bookmark the contact List on officewiki — you'll use it a whole lot
•  Done Understand that you will be asked in the first team meeting (and, likely, other subsequent meetings) to "tell us a bit about yourself" and prepare mentally and emotionally for that
•  Done Read the readings.
•  Done Meet the rest of the team individually.

Somebody else (default: Tyler)

•  Done Add to weekly team meeting as soon as the Google account is created
•  Done Have first day meeting with Tyler
•  Done Schedule weekly 1:1 with Tyler
•  Done Add to releng@ private team mailing list
•  Done Add to engprod@ private team mailing list
• IRC
  •  Done Add to team related IRC access lists.
  •  Done Request addition to the other private IRC channels (#wikimedia-staff, #mediawiki_security)
•  Done Tyler schedules 1:1s with everyone on the team.
•  Done Add to relevant Team Drives in Google Drive: RelEng , Pipeline, Code Health
•  Done File an LDAP-Access-Requests for wmf, releng, ciadmin (link as subtask)
•  Done Add to RelEng's Gerrit group (which gives Administrator and wmf-deployments by inheritance)
•  Done Phabricator
  •  Done Add to Phabricator groups: #WMF-NDA, #trusted-contributors, #acl_releng, #acl_repository-admins, #acl_project-admins, #acl_phabricator
  • Add to the kanban board's sidebar
  • Add to kanban Herald rule: H229
  • In progress Request addition to #Security phabricator group (link as subtask)
•  Done Add to our Cloud VPS projects: deployment-prep and integration
• Setup a keysigning party
• Add GPG key to our pwstore
•  Done Add to team page on mediawiki.org (team members and timezone).
•  Done Add to https://time.releng.team/