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Integration: Overview📜

The following documents should be followed, in order, to fully integrate a new package into Big Bang:

  1. Get BBTOC Approval: Follow the BBTOC Package Maintenance Tracks process to get approval for package integration
  2. Upstream Helm Chart: Initialize package workspace using an upstream Helm chart
  3. CICD Pipeline: Establish a baseline package pipeline for testing changes
  4. Flux Helm Chart: Create Flux compatible GitOps Helm chart required by Big Bang
  5. Service mesh: Integrate with service mesh for ingress/egress
  6. Monitoring: Enable metrics scraping on product
  7. Database: If required, add internal and external database support using Big Bang values
  8. Object Storage: If required, add internal or external object storage support using Big Bang values
  9. Single-Sign On: If available, add Single-Sign On (SSO) through internal or external identify provider
  10. Additional Tests: Add testing to validate basic functionality
  11. Network Policies: Add ingress/egress policies to restrict network traffic for security
  12. Policy Enforcement: Update package to comply with default security and governance policies in Big Bang
  13. Istio Hardening: Update package to comply with Istio hardening policies in Big Bang
  14. Supported Package: Migrate package into the Big Bang repo as a supported package
  15. Final Documentation: Add additional Big Bang documentation for final release
  16. Big Bang Merge Request: Create Big Bang Merge Request and run all packages pipeline