In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

From the blog Mr. Lancer 987's Blog by Mr. Lancer 987 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

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In this post, I’ll be reflecting on our third and final sprint towards developing and implementing an Identity and Access Management system for Thea’s Pantry. Coming out of Sprint 2, we had an almost-fully-functional proof of concept which integrated a mock frontend capable of calling out to Keycloak to require authentication, getting an access token, and passing that token to the backend for authentication and validation. Our goal for sprint 3 was to fully implement production microservices for Keycloak, the IAMBackend, and the IAMFrontend. These goals may not have been explicitly defined like that at the beginning of the sprint, but that ended up being our objective. We also wanted to have finalized documentation that explains our implementation and design choices.

Some of my personal work towards that goal was as follows:

GitLab

• Documenting our low-level issues in GitLab and assigning them accordingly. I put additional focus/effort this sprint into properly linking related issues, blockers, and tracking various key information in comments, as opposed to just using issues as a task list. Epic

• Document and ticket/issue any outstanding work that is necessary but out of the time constraints of this sprint / the semester. Approaching the end of the semester, there is still some necessary work to fully implement our microservices, but there is not enough time to complete it all. I have gone through and added any issues I can think of.

Backend

• Fully implement an IAMBackend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoBackend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMBackend instead of GuestInfoBackend

• Removing files and code that does not apply to IAMBackend, such as messageBroker.js

• Modifying backend endpoint code to finalize it

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMBackend before “finishing” the semester.

Frontend

• Fully implement an IAMFrontend that mirrors the structure of the GuestInfoFrontend. It is not yet merged, as it is not yet a fully functional MVP. That branch is here. This has included but was not limited to work such as:

• Refactoring comments and text to apply to an IAMFrontend instead of GuestInfoFrontend

• Updating dependencies

• Ensuring the GitLab build processes function as expected

• Adding and reconfiguring bin scripts as necessary

• Doing frontend Vue work to actually create a redirect page

• I will be tying up some loose ends and hopefully merging IAMFrontend before “finishing” the semester.

PantryKeycloak

Just providing a link to the repository because I am the only one that has touched it, all work in there was done by me. PantryKeycloak

• Fully configure and implement a production Keycloak repository

• Add all custom settings for the TheasPantry Realm

• Create an entrypoint script that automatically exports and saves all changes to the realm

Documentation

Documentation Repository

• Finalize and write a lot of documentation

I feel like this sprint was a rough one across the board. I could definitely tell people were on the home stretch and sliding towards the end of the semester. I think people did good work, and our class meetings worked well for us; we always came to agreements and had purpose. I feel like we were working very slowly though, and at times, I felt like I was taking the bulk of the issues on myself. I think I could work on that as an individual, and understand that it is not necessarily my job to make sure every single thing gets done. I am very mission-oriented, so I naturally do that, despite the cost to myself. I feel like as a team, we could have paid more attention to each other and what people’s workloads looked like. That might have allowed us to work better together and be more mindful of our own deadlines and how we can help each other.

The pattern I have chosen for this sprint is Dig Deeper. This pattern describes learning things at a level where you truly understand why they are the way they are, how they work, and how to use them. I think it is relevant because the more I tried to learn how the different services and Docker interact, the better I was able to understand and implement solutions. If I had read this prior, I may have focused more on understanding before trying to implement, as opposed to while.

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Sprint 2 really changed the way I see collaboration. As an introvert, I used to be scared of team projects and working with others. But during this sprint, that mindset shifted completely. It turned out to be fun and rewarding to collaborate with a team where everyone was understanding, supportive, and eager to learn together. After receiving helpful feedback at the end of Sprint 1, we had a much clearer understanding of what needed to be done. In Sprint 1, we struggled a lot with confusion and having different views, but this time around, we had a shared direction that made a big difference.

Throughout Sprint 2, we faced more complex problems than before. My partner and I worked on several issues based on the feedback we received, as well as on things we identified as a team. Our main priorities were fixing the camera mirroring issue on the UPC scanner, updating the frontend’s visual identity, and adjusting the layout for mobile and tablet devices.

We successfully fixed the mirroring issue, which felt like a big win. However, aligning our frontend designs with the other teams was much more difficult than we anticipated. Initially, we had decided on a color palette, fonts, logos, and design styles that we thought represented the project well. Midway through the sprint, though, we were given Worcester State University’s Visual Identity Guidelines, and suddenly, everything we had designed had to be reworked. It was frustrating to undo what we had already built, but it taught us the importance of flexibility and communication.

Another major challenge we encountered  and that we had to push into Sprint 3, was getting our web app running on a server rather than just locally. We started working on it, but deployment turned out to be trickier than we expected.

Here’s a look at some of the issue we were working on:

• Issue 13: Get website running not just on local server – Worked on deployment strategies for moving our app beyond local environments.
• Issue 15: Fix mirroring issue on front facing camera – Solved the problem with the mirrored display when using the front-facing camera.
• Issue 16: Modify page layout for different screen sizes – Improved the page layout to make it responsive on mobile and tablet screens.
• Issue 20: Modify layout to implement WSU Visual Identity Guidelines – Updated frontend designs to match the WSU branding requirements.

Overall, I think our team worked really well together this sprint. Despite the technical obstacles, especially around connecting the frontend and backend, we stayed positive and pushed through. We were eventually able to connect both parts and present a working version of the app to the customer, which was a great feeling. As a team, one area we could improve on is making sure everyone is on the same page and updated about what the different sub-teams are working on. Sometimes there were minor moments of confusion because different people had slightly different ideas of where each group was at. It wasn’t a major issue this sprint, but better communication would definitely help prevent misunderstandings and keep us even more organized. On a personal level, I realized that learning never really stops when you’re working in the tech industry or when you’re a developer. If there’s something I want to improve on, it’s learning new concepts more quickly. Being able to pick up new ideas faster would help me feel more confident during team discussions and allow me to contribute more effectively.

 In the Apprenticeship Patterns book by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye, one pattern really stood out to me this sprint: “Rubbing Elbows.” It talks about the importance of working closely with more experienced peers and teammates. Instead of trying to learn everything on your own, this pattern encourages you to learn through collaboration, by watching how others work and asking questions. I chose this pattern because it perfectly describes what changed for me. This sprint  working side-by-side with my teammate helped me learn so much faster than I could have on my own. If I had read about “Rubbing Elbows” earlier, I think I would have embraced collaboration a lot sooner instead of seeing it as something intimidating. It would have reminded me that it’s okay and even expected  to learn through other people, not just through personal effort.

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