Entrance Criteria
Requirements your application must meet before onboarding to Game Warden.
Before Game Warden accepts your application for onboarding, it must meet a set of entrance criteria that ensure the application is ready for a secure, production-grade deployment environment. Entrance criteria exist to protect the integrity of the platform and the other tenants sharing it, and to ensure that your onboarding experience is smooth.
Why entrance criteria exist
Game Warden hosts applications in highly regulated DOW and federal environments. Introducing an application with unresolved security issues, poor operational hygiene, or incompatible architecture may compromise the security posture of the entire platform. Entrance criteria act as a quality gate that ensures every application meets the requirements before it enters the environment.
Categories of requirements
The entrance criteria consist of four categories:
Basic organizational and operational requirements that apply to all vendors regardless of deployment path. These include having a designated point of contact, documented support SLAs, and a defined application boundary.
See General Requirements for the full list.
Basic organizational and operational requirements that apply to all vendors regardless of deployment path. These include having a designated point of contact, documented support SLAs, and a defined application boundary.
See General Requirements for the full list.
Build and package your application according to these requirements. Because Game Warden runs on Kubernetes, containerize your application before deploying it to Game Warden.
See Technical Requirements for the full list.
Requirements related to your application's architecture. Some design patterns are not supported on Game Warden (for example, privileged containers, host networking). This section helps you understand what is and is not supported.
See Supported Design Patterns for details.
Requirements for the base images your application uses. For IL4/IL5 deployments, containers must use Iron Bank-sourced base images.
See Recommended Containers for the full list.
If you're unsure whether your application meets any of the entrance criteria, your Second Front account representative will work with you to identify gaps, recommend next steps, and prepare your application for its target authorization.