About VLab - My VLab
VLab Vision
“Provide the tools and services to foster innovation and streamline R2O”
VLab's goals are:
- Provide excellent customer service
- Embrace emerging technologies, like the use of Git repositories and a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) software development strategy.
- Cater VLab services to key programs like AWIPS and GOES-R.
- Leverage VLab infrastructure for establishing STI’s cloud development and testing environment
VLab Services
Cloud
VLab Cloud Service provides:
- Infrastructure support (managed through VLab)
- Monitoring costs - you pay for what you use (compute, storage, egress)
- Tagging of resources to track costs at project level and responding to cost requests
- Cloud design and creation of cloud resources
- Managing AWS Account permissions and users via AWS Roles, Policies, and Groups
- Administrative support within EC2 instances (VMs)
VLCS as Modern Intranet Portal
VLab Collaborative Service keep everyone in your organization productive, self-sufficient, and connected with a modern intranet.
With Liferay DXP, you can Increase productivity by organizing and sharing training materials, support resources, and best practice information in one place.
Foster collaboration through employee online forums, blogs.
Code Repository
GIT is a revision control and source code management system. It allows developers to establish a common code baseline from which they make and merge updates. In conjunction with Redmine, GIT works to control what updates get integrated into the baseline and when that happens.
Subversion (SVN) SVN is a revision control and source code management system. It allows developers to establish a common code baseline from which they make and merge updates. In conjunction with Redmine, SVN works to control what updates get integrated into the baseline and when that happens.
Code Development: Continuous Integration Continuous Develivery
VLab GitLab Community is a one stop shop for the software development lifecycle. It has code repository and collaborative software development platform for large DevOps and DevSecOps projects.
Gerrit is a web-based team software code review tool. Software developers in a team can review each other's source code modifications using a Web browser and approve or reject those changes. Working with Git and Redmine, Gerrit helps control project software changes.
Jenkins is a continuous integration tool for software developers. It allows for the automated building of a software application resident in GIT and SVN repositories.
Project Management
VLab GitLab provides issue tracking, issue board, wikis to manage Agile portfolio planning and project management.
Redmine is project management web application. It provides Gantt charts allowing project managers to visualize task dependencies and timelines. Flexible role based access controls enables teams of developers to work efficiently together. It also provide wiki, forum and issue tracking functionality to enhance the development process.
External Websites
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