Overview

The Mobile-ID service provides a global mobile number validation system that can be used to authenticate a user's device. It interacts with SMS gateways to send and receive SMS messages.

More Info:

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop/Architecture#MSISDN_.28Phone_Number.29_Verification
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988469#c5

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Contacts

• Dev Team
  • Tarek Ziadé <tarek@mozilla.com>
  • Alexis Metaireau <alexis@mozilla.com>
  • Rémy Hubscher <natim@mozilla.com>
• Ops
  • Dean Wilson <dwilson@mozilla.com>
  • Bob Micheletto <bobm@mozilla.com>
• QA
  • Richard Pappalardo <rpappalardo@mozilla.com>
  • Karl Thiessen <kthiessen@mozilla.com

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Deployment Environments

Summary

There are 4 deployed environments.

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DEV

Description

• Host: https://msisdn-dev.stage.mozaws.net/
• Maintainer: Dev Team
• SMS Gateway: Nexmo
• Usage: Development and integration

Notes

• This environment is updated with the master branch by devs on a regular basis - or upon request.
• you can get the version by displaying the root URL of the server.
• This environment provides a Mobile number validation for the countries listed below

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STAGE (E2E-TEST)

Description

• Host: https://msisdn.stage.mozaws.net/
• Maintainer: Ops Team
• SMS Gateway: NEXMO (feal endpoint)
• Usage: End-2-End Test (client-side testing against a real endpoint: Nexmo)

Notes

• This environment is used for end-to-end testing of the service once it hits the stable channel.
• This server is a perfect mirror of the production environment, updated with the tag of the upcoming release
• ATTENTION!: - This uses is a real endpoint!
  • We pay for each text message so DO NOT loadtest against it!!

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STAGE (LOADTEST)

Description

• Host: https://msisdn-loadtest.stage.mozaws.net/
• Maintainer: Ops Team
• SMS Gateway: OMXEN (fake endpoint)
• Usage: Loadtesting (server-side and testing)

Notes

• This environment is used by QA and dev teams for load tests.
• The goal is to measure how many connections can be handled by the server and anticipate errors that might happen on high load.
• SMS are not sent for real - they are collected by a fake SMS Gateway: OMXEN.
• Load tests can interact with OMXEN to check what SMS messages are sent out of the system.
• You can verify that an SMS message has been received by OMXEN through your browser:
  
  • http://omxen.dev.mozaws.net/receive?to=<DEVICE PHONE NUMBER>

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PRODUCTION

Description

• Host: https://msisdn.services.mozilla.com/
• Maintainer: Ops Team
• SMS Gateway: Nexmo
• Usage: Production apps

Notes

• This environment is used for production and is the default server for Firefox Nightly.
• The prod environment provide a Mobile number validation for the countries listed below

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Release Cycle

• The service is continuously pushed into the DEV server where client developers can test it.
• The service is released in: STAGE, STAGE-LOADTEST then PRODUCTION every other week (or asap if we discover a security breach)

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Branches and bugfix deployments

In case of a bugfix:

• A commit will with the fix will be pushed to master.
• A new branch will be created on the github repository with the versions that needs the patch, and the fixes will be applied there (backported).
• A new tag will be created with the new version (the patch version will be updated) and a deployment request will be filled.

For instance, in case the 0.9.0 release contains a bug that needs to be fixed:

1. Fix the code in master;
2. Backport (cherrypick) the commit in the 0.9.x branch (create it if needed);
3. Tag a new minor release: 0.9.1 and fill a new deployment request.

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Reference

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop/Architecture/ID
• https://github.com/mozilla-services/msisdn-gateway

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