Iris Mobile Save

Introduction

Iris is an on-call escalation management system built by Linkedin and used in production today. This repo provides a mobile frontend for Iris, allowing engineers to access incident data off-premises. Iris is:

• Simple: This app gives its users a clean, focused UI for examining on-call alerts and their associated data.
• Customizable: The content of each incident is user-defined, as is the way that data is displayed. Iris exposes a templating system that allows each application to define layouts for its incidents, empowering users to decide what data is important and how they wish to see it.
• Scalable: Iris is used in production by Linkedin to handle all of its operational incidents (thousands per day).

This repo provides a mobile interface for Iris. The primary codebase is available at this repo

Getting Started

The Iris mobile app is built on the Ionic 3 platform (https://ionicframework.com/). As such, it's largely written in Typescript and HTML, then compiled to run in a WebView on Android and iOS. The app communicates with Iris API through Iris relay. Both of these components are necessary for the app to function. To check out how the app works:

• Set up Iris API and Iris relay: For an easy initial setup, see the Iris docker-compose repo here. Docs for more complicated setup can be found at https://iris.claims/docs.
• Install the Ionic CLI: Follow instructions here to download and install the Ionic CLI. This app is built on Ionic 3, so you may need to install a previous version.
• Run the app in-browser: Running "ionic serve" should build the app, connect it to the docker-compose containers, and allow you to see what the app looks like. Note that this is a debug-mode setup; production deployment will require some configuration changes.

Building native apps

To build the app for mobile devices, we leverage cordova through the Ionic platform. To do this:

• Set up Iris API and Iris relay: For an easy initial setup, see the Iris docker-compose repo here. Docs for more complicated setup can be found at https://iris.claims/docs.
• Configure .env.dev and .env.prod: In .env.dev and .env.prod (located in the repo root), set IRIS_BASE_URL and LOGIN_URL according to where Iris relay is hosted. For example, this may look like IRIS_BASE_URL=https://iris-relay.example.com and LOGIN_URL=https://iris-relay.example.com/saml/login/saml_idp
• Configure Firebase push notifications: After configuring the app with your Firebase project, you should be given the option to download a google-services.json or GoogleService-Info.plist file.
• Build using Ionic CLI: For development builds, run ionic cordova build $PLATFORM. Production builds use ionic cordova build --prod --release $PLATFORM
• Configure code signing for iOS/Android: For production builds, code signing is required to verify developer identity. The process for this differs depending on platform. See instructions for iOS and Android