Core Portal Lifecycle Procedures

Documentation for the TACC ACI-WMA Core v2 Portal codebases.

Documentation Goals

To provide adequate information for project stakeholders to make decisions regarding the use and funding of the portal in their research.
To provide a roadmap for TACC WMA developers and contributing partners who need to support, extend, customize or administrate the portal codebase.
To codify best-practices and procedures used by portal codebases and related projects at TACC.
To aggregate and maintain a list of all resources, systems and points of contact relevant to the portal codebases.

What’s Included

A detailed explanation of the Core Portal Ecosystem, including the design decisions and goals driving the evolution of the portal codebase.
The DevOps Lifecycle procedures for planning, resourcing, provisioning, configuring and deploying the portal codebase on TACC infrastructure.
An explanation of how the Portal Branding is implemented in the portal and CMS.
Customization instructions on extending the portal architecture with published TAPIS applications or additional containers.
A strategy for converting discrete actions into JIRA Tickets in order to track progress during the phases of the portal lifecycle.
The Operations procedures used for bug reporting, portal maintenance, content backups, and data archiving.
Information about the portal Licensing model.
Instructions on how to How to Contribute to the codebase, and the list of current Contributors.
Versioning Information about this documentation and how it relates to the various codebases.
Additional information relating to development Resources, and primary Points of Contact.

Note: This is living documentation and will be updated periodically to reflect changes and updates to TACC workflows, operations and best practices.

Core Portal Lifecycle Procedures

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Documentation Goals

What’s Included