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Ownership

One of the most powerful features of Cortex is the ability to track ownership for services and resources. This powers many features, including automated notifications to owners when a new Initiative is created.

Catalog Descriptor

The x-cortex-owners field allows you to define a list of owners of type email, group, or slack.

x-cortex-owners:
  - type: email
    email: user@example.com
    description: This is a description for this owner # optional
  # Groups can be pulled from various integrations
  - type: group
    name: My Team
    provider: CORTEX
    description: This is a description for this owner # optional
  # List Slack channels, *without* the preceeding "#"
  - type: slack
    channel: team-engineering
    notificationsEnabled: true #optional
    description: This is a description for this slack channel # optional

For groups, we support the following integrations:

The value of provider is the name of the integration that the group is coming from. The available list is:

  • ACTIVE_DIRECTORY
  • BAMBOO_HR
  • CORTEX: Use when referring to a Cortex managed team
  • GITHUB
  • GOOGLE
  • OKTA
  • OPSGENIE
  • WORKDAY