VANotify

VANotify is a notifications platform, allowing consumer services to send emails and texts to their users.

Overview and Terminology

Code and issues for the Notification API is stored in this repository.

The Notification API was forked from a repository belonging to the Canadian Digital Service, which in turn was forked from the original project by the British Government Digital Service.

The first use case for the platform is to send confirmation emails for the submission of Form 526ez, from vets-api.

Integration Endpoints

Environments

The Notification API is currently deployed to a development environment on ThoughtWorks' AWS instance, at http://dev-notification-load-balancer-1502931385.us-east-2.elb.amazonaws.com

A staging environment is in the process of being provisioned, and will also be hosted on ThoughtWorks' AWS instance.

The API will be deployed to the VA's infrastructure for production.

Required Configuration

Configuration for the API is stored in config.py, and set using environment variables.

These environment variables are stored in AWS SSM Parameter Store.

Known External Dependencies

The API currently depends on GovDelivery for sending emails, and Twilio for sending SMS.

Outage Status and Maintenance Windows

There are no standard maintenance windows.

Escalation Procedure

Notify the VANotify team using the #notifications-engine slack channel or the contacts below.

Contacts

Help and feedback

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• Get help from the Platform Support Team in Slack.

• Submit a feature idea to the Platform.