Tools & comms channels

Tools we use

Most tools require individual accounts for each user. Contact tech lead to get accounts. For tools with shared accounts, credentials are stored and shared securely via 1Password.

Tool	Purpose	Individual or shared account?
AWS	Infrastructure	Individual
Github	Version control, CI/CD (Actions)	Both - ror-bot for automated tasks; Note: ROR org is a sub-org of DataCite
Terraform cloud	Infrastructure provisioning/management	Individual
Docker	Container publishing	Both - ror-bot for automated tasks
1Password	Secure password storage and sharing	Individual
Readme.io	Documentation publishing	Individual
Datadog	Log/metric aggregation	Individual; Note: we use the EU instance, datadog.eu
Pingdom	Uptime monitoring
LanchDarkly	Feature flag management	Individual
Zenodo	Data dump publication	Shared

ROR communication channels

Tool	Purpose	Individual or shared account?
Google groups ror-tech	Tech-related announcements and discussion	Individual
Slack ror-community.slack.com	Internal team communication, public channels for external announcements	Individual
Gmail ror-bot@gmail.com	Tech alerts, login related emails for ror-bot accounts	Shared