Governance, Risk and Compliance (GGRC)

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance are activities necessary for any organization with regulatory or contractual obligations.

Governance refers to management structure, policies, procedures, shareholder relations, etc.

Risk Management is a process to identify business and technical risks as well as means to mitigate those.

Compliance refers to processes necessary to meet applicable regulations and communicate to stakeholders about it.

Many organizations operate in multiple jurisdictions worldwide, each of which has its own and often overlapping laws and regulations. Organizational functions and information relating to risk management and compliance often tend to be managed in silos reflecting the multiple jurisdictions, scope, stakeholder diversity and historical basis. This leads to inefficiency.

The GGRC project intends to provide an open source solution for managing some of these common problems. The application provides a common system of record for information in this domain. It provides the ability to capture the relationships and to understand how the pieces fit together. It also provides workflow capability to manage processes in this domain.

Migrated from Google Code.

Requirements

The following software is required to stand up a GGRC-Core development environment:

Prerequisite	Description
Docker	Container management tool
Docker compose	A tool for defining multi-container apps

NOTE for Windows/OSX users: The easiest way of getting Docker is by installing the docker toolbox.

Quick Start

Getting started with GGRC-Core development should be fast and easy once you have Docker up and running. Here are the steps:

NOTE for Windows/OSX users: Make sure docker is up and running by following the windows guide / osx guide.

clone the repo
cd to the project directory
Run the following:
```
./bin/containers setup dev
```

To log into the container, run the following:

    docker exec -it ggrccore_cleandev_1 su

If you see download errors during the docker-compose up -d stage, or if any subsequent step fails, try running docker-compose build (See Reprovisioning a Docker container below for more).

If apt-get fails to install anything (for example Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'), try this.

NOTE: Because Docker shared volumes do not have permission mappings, you should not use git and other file-creating commands from inside the container, as these files will be owned by root and may disrupt future git usage on the host machine.

Launching GGRC as Stand-alone Flask

Most development is done in a stand-alone flask. We strive to make getting up and running as simple as possible; to that end, launching the application is simple:

launch_ggrc

Launching GGRC in Google App Engine SDK

We strive to make getting up and running as simple as possible; to that end, launching the application in the Google App Engine SDK environment is simple:

launch_gae_ggrc

This requires src/app.yaml with settings and src/packages with requirements. You can generate the YAML file with:

deploy_appengine extras/deploy_settings_local.sh

To (re-)generate the requirements, you can run:

make clean_appengine && make appengine

Accessing the Application

The application will be accessible via this URL: http://localhost:8080/

If you're running the Google App Engine SDK, the App Engine management console will be available via this URL: http://localhost:8000/. You can log in as user@example.com with admin rights and setup other users later.

Accessing MySQL query logs

If using the docker-compose-clean.yml file, the myqsl query logs are enabled by default and can be monitored with:

docker exec ggrccore_db_1 tail -f /tmp/mysql.log

Or slow queries, that take more than 0.5s, with:

docker exec ggrccore_db_1 tail -f /tmp/slow_query.log

Running Tests

Tests are your friend! Keep them running, keep them updated.

For JavaScript tests:

run_karma # To run karma with PhantomJS
run_karma_chrome # To run karma in host browser (open http://localhost:9876)

run_karma is the default way of running tests as it automatically builds the javascript assets on file changes. Use run_karma_chrome if you need to debug an issue in the Chrome browser. For performance reasons run_karma_chrome does not automatically build assets, so make sure you do it manually by running build_assets.

For Python tests:

run_pytests

The script will run unit tests and integration tests.

For better usage of unit tests, you can use sniffer inside the test/unit folder. This will run the tests on each file update.

cd test/unit; sniffer

You can drop into the ipdb debugger on failures by running:

run_pytests --ipdb-failures

For Selenium tests:

On the host machine in the root of the repository run:

./bin/jenkins/run_selenium

Manually running selenium tests

For Selenium tests, you must use the docker environment. There are two containers needed for running selenium tests ggrccore_dev_1 and ggrccore_selenium_1. Due to a bug in the selenium container, you must start the containers with:

docker-compose  up -d --force-recreate

After that, you can make sure that both containers are running with docker ps -a.

To run the Selenium tests, you must login into your dev container, and run the server:

docker exec -it ggrccore_dev_1 su vagrant
make bower_components
build_css
build_assets
db_reset
launch_ggrc

Then you can login into the selenium container and run the tests:

docker exec -it ggrccore_selenium_1 bash
python /selenium/src/run_selenium.py

You should also feel free to check how the ./bin/jenkins/run_selenium script works.

NOTE: that the "ggrccore" part of the name is due to the repository parent folder name. if you have your repo in a different folder, change the first part accordingly.

Quickstart Breakdown

The quick start above gives a glimpse into the GGRC development environment. It's worth noting where there is automation in GGRC, and where there isn't. Often the lack of automation support for a step is intentional. Let's explore each step in detail.

Git Submodules in GGRC

GGRC makes use of some external tools for Sass templates and JavaScript form handling. In order to have the relevant repositories checked out as Git sub modules the following command must be issued in the project directory:

git submodule update --init

Reprovisioning a Docker container

To reprovision a docker container run the following:

Remove files that are not in the repository e.g. Python cache:

git clean -df

Start re-provisioning:

docker-compose build --pull --no-cache

Because Docker provisioning is done with Dockerfile which can not modify content of a shared volume, you need to enter the container and run one more step to finish the provisioning

docker-compose up -d --force-recreate
docker exec -it ggrccore_dev_1 su vagrant
make bower_components

Compiling Sass Templates

Since GGRC uses Sass for CSS templating, the templates need to be compiled. This has been automated via a script available in $PATH in the virtual machine:

build_css

To have a process watch the Sass resources and compile them as they are changed you could use this command:

watch_css

Compiling Assets

For other asset bundling required, there is the following command:

build_assets

As for CSS, there is an asset builder that can watch for changes and update files as they change:

watch_assets

Importing Example Data

Example test data can be loaded with the following command:

db_reset backup-file.sql

Gotchas

After syncing your local clone of GGRC-Core you may experience a failure when trying to run the application due to a change (usually an addition) to the prerequisites.

There are three primary classes of requirements for GGRC-Core: Submodules, Python requirements and other provision steps

There are two pip requirements files: a runtime requirements file, src/requirements.txt, for application package dependencies and a development requirements file, src/requirements-dev.txt, for additional development-time package dependencies. The runtime requirements are deployed with the application while the development requirements are only used in the development environment (largely for testing purposes).

Most requirements changes should be in either src/requirements.txt or src/requirements-dev.txt and would manifest as module import failures.

DNS issues

Sometimes build fails due to Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'.

Solution 1:

On the host find out the primary and secondary DNS server addresses:

$ nmcli dev show | grep 'IP4.DNS'
IP4.DNS[1]:              10.0.0.2
IP4.DNS[2]:              10.0.0.3

NOTE: For older versions of nmcli, one should replace the first part of the command above with nmcli device list (tested with nmcli version 0.9.8.8).

Using these addresses, create a file /etc/docker/daemon.json:

$ sudo su root
# cd /etc/docker
# touch daemon.json

Put this in /etc/docker/daemon.json:

{
   "dns": ["10.0.0.2", "10.0.0.3"]
}

Exit from root:

# exit

Now restart docker:

$ sudo service docker restart

Solution 2:

Uncomment the following line in /etc/default/docker: DOCKER_OPTS="--dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4"
Restart the Docker service $ sudo service docker restart
Delete any images which have cached the invalid DNS settings.
Build again and the problem should be solved.

Environment Variables

GGRC_SETTINGS_MODULE:

GGRC uses this environment variable to define which module(s) within ggrc.settings to use during the bootstrap phase. The value can be one or more space-separated module names, which will be applied in the same order they are specified. source bin/init_env will set this value to development.

Details About VM File Structure

docker-compose build installs several Debian packages globally within the VM. All other project data is contained within two directories, specified by environment variables (and defined in /home/vagrant/.bashrc).

PREFIX:

Points at root directory of the Git repository, and is automatically detected if not present.

DEV_PREFIX:

Points at a directory containing tmp and opt directories. If not defined, DEV_PREFIX defaults to the value of PREFIX. (In the VM, it is defined to /vagrant-dev to avoid slowdown caused by the shared filesystem at /vagrant.)

Changes to Requirements Files

The first thing to try to resolve issues due to missing prerequisites is to run the following command from within the project directory in the host operating system:

docker-compose build

command should be an update Python virtualenv containing the Python packages required by the application as well as any new development package requirements.

To Manually update the requirements, you can log in to docker container and run

pip install -r src/requirements-dev.txt
pip install --no-deps -r src/requirements.txt

Note that if you're using launch_gae_ggrc, then changes to src/requirements.txt will require rebuilding the src/packages via

make appengine_packages

Git Submodule Changes

A change in the git sub modules required by the project could also lead to errors, particularly in the front-end HTML portion of the application. The solution is to update the submodules:

git submodule update

Given that Sass and Javascript related projects are included in the submodule requirements of GGRC, it may also be necessary to rebuild the Sass and other web assets:

build_css
build_assets

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