Identity

This sub-project used to handle some of the Guardian profile.theguardian.com functionality along with the now archived guardian/identity-frontend. The split over two projects was a cause of confusion and happened as part of an incomplete migration.

Functionality previously handled by this sub-project has moved over to gateway which is the frontend to sign-in and registration at Guardian profile and manage-frontend, the repo behind manage.theguardian.com (the 'Manage My Account'/MMA area for The Guardian).

However, this project is still:

Serving the healthcheck: https://profile.theguardian.com/_healthcheck
Serving the Comments & Replies page, e.g. https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/16290152
Redirecting to Manage My Account for certain functionality

Architecture

This service receives traffic from the profile.theguardian.com Fastly service and it is one of its three backends, the other two being Okta and Gateway.

mermaid

graph TD
    A(profile.theguardian.com - Fastly service)
    A --> B[Gateway]
    A --> C[Okta]
    A --> D[frontend/identity]

Here's the VCL that sends traffic to identity for CODE and PROD.