Add alpha integration environment workflow

[neil-sproston]

Description

Initial workflow to provide alpha-integration environment

Context

The alpha-integration environment will point to external services integration environment as opposed to internal stub/mock endpoints. This workflow is to support that environment.

Type of changes

• Refactoring (non-breaking change)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would change existing functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Checklist

• I have followed the code style of the project
• I have added tests to cover my changes
• I have updated the documentation accordingly
• This PR is a result of pair or mob programming
• Exceptions/Exclusions to coding standards (e.g. #noqa or #NOSONAR) are included within this Pull Request.

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[github-actions]

Deployment Complete

• Preview URL: https://gpcapim-194alphaint.dev.endpoints.clinical-data-gateway.national.nhs.uk — Health endpoint
  • Smoke Test: ✅ Passed (HTTP 200)
• Proxy URL: https://internal-dev.api.service.nhs.uk/clinical-data-gateway-api-poc-pr-123
• ECS Cluster: ecs-cluster
• ECS Service: pr-gpcapim-194alphaint
• ALB Target: arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:eu-west-2:900119715266:targetgroup/gpcapim-194alphaint/cc24e5fac8316179

[github-actions]

✅ Trivy gate: no Critical/High issues.

Trivy IaC (Terraform) Summary

Severity	Count
CRITICAL	0
HIGH	0
MEDIUM	0
LOW	0
UNKNOWN	0

Findings (top 50)

Severity	ID	Title	File

[github-actions]

✅ Trivy gate: no Critical/High vulnerabilities.

Trivy Image Scan Summary

Image: 900119715266.dkr.ecr.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/whoami:gpcapim-194alphaint

Severity	Count
CRITICAL	0
HIGH	0
MEDIUM	0
LOW	0
UNKNOWN	0

✅ No vulnerabilities found.

[github-actions]

✅ Trivy gate: no Critical/High vulnerabilities.

Trivy Image Scan Summary

Image: 900119715266.dkr.ecr.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/whoami:gpcapim-194alphaint

Severity	Count
CRITICAL	0
HIGH	0
MEDIUM	0
LOW	0
UNKNOWN	0

✅ No vulnerabilities found.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

See analysis details on SonarQube Cloud

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a dedicated GitHub Actions workflow and Terraform var-file to stand up an “alpha-integration” preview-style environment intended to use external integration services rather than stubs.

Changes:

• Introduces a new GitHub Actions workflow to build/push an image, apply Terraform, deploy an Apigee proxy, and run test suites for the alpha-integration environment.
• Adds a new alpha-int.tfvars var-file for the preview Terraform environment.
• Updates infrastructure/.gitignore to allow the new var-file to be checked in.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
infrastructure/environments/preview/alpha-int.tfvars	Adds alpha-integration-specific Terraform inputs (currently stubbed).
infrastructure/.gitignore	Un-ignores alpha-int.tfvars so it can be committed.
.github/workflows/alpha-integration-env.yml	New workflow to deploy and test the alpha-integration environment.

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