Advanced course
Federation operator
Run the national hub and MDA nodes: understand what lives where, manage signing keys and the node registry, follow catalogue sync and relays, onboard a node under maker-checker, monitor node status and promote releases safely.
- Length
- 5 lessons, about 3.5 hours
- For
- developer, operator, government
- Prerequisites
- Pamodzi e-Services Foundations
- Certificate
- Pamodzi Certified Federation Operator, valid 24 months
- Assessment
- 10 questions, pass mark 80%
- Version
- 2026.1
You will be able to
- Explain the combined, hub and node roles and what data each may hold
- Read and verify signed /fed/v1 messages, JWKS and citizen assertions, and rotate a signing key without downtime
- Follow catalogue sync and the relay of applications, status, payments, documents and verification
- Onboard a new MDA node from paperwork to the first signed ping, under maker-checker
- Monitor node status and catalogue lag, handle outages and promote releases through the environments
- Make a federation contract change safely
Lessons
- Hub and nodes · 35 minutes
- Trust: signed messages, keys and JWKS · 45 minutes
- Catalogue sync and relaying applications, payments and documents · 45 minutes
- Onboarding a new MDA node · 40 minutes
- Monitoring nodes, environments and changing the contract · 45 minutes