SRE creation

Purpose

A secure research environment (SRE) is needed for each project. This is the compute environment that the project team use to carry out the work. The purpose of this document is to define how and when SREs should be created.

Scope

This procedure covers SRE creation for all projects running in the Turing TRE.

Responsibilities

Role	Responsibility
🧑‍🔧 Trusted research system administrator	Deploying and testing the DSH SRE
🧑‍💻 Trusted research data manager	Logging the SRE creation

Procedure

           flowchart TD
      shm(🧑‍🔧 Confirm SHM)
      sre(🧑‍🔧 Deploy SRE)
      test(🧑‍🔧 Test SRE)
      log(🧑‍💻 Log SRE creation)
      shm-->sre
      sre-->test
      test-->log

      classDef trusted_research_sysadmin fill:#f8cecc,stroke:#b85450;
      classDef trusted_research_data_manager fill:#dae8fc,stroke:#6c8ebf;

      class shm,sre,test trusted_research_sysadmin;
      class log trusted_research_data_manager;
    

1. Confirm DSH management environment is set up:

   • Responsible: 🧑‍🔧 Trusted research system administrator

   • If an existing DSH management environment exists:

     • Confirm that you are able to access it.

     • Ask other system administrators for help if needed.

   • If there is no DSH management environment:

     • Follow the SHM deployment guidance.

2. Deploy a DSH SRE:

   • Responsible: 🧑‍🔧 Trusted research system administrator

   • Follow the SRE deployment guidance.

   • Add the deployment logs to the logging folder in the Sharepoint folder for this project

3. Test the DSH SRE:

   • Responsible: 🧑‍🔧 Trusted research system administrator

   • Confirm that SRE passes the DSH security evaluation checklist.

   • Tell the data managers that SRE creation is finished.

4. Log SRE creation:

   • Responsible: 🧑‍💻 Trusted research data manager

   • Move the GitHub issue tracking this SRE into the Active long-term SREs and SHMs column of the TRESA - SRE board

   • Ensure that deployment logs are present in the logging folder on Sharepoint

   • Update the all_users_and_projects.xlsx spreadsheet in the information_governance folder on Sharepoint