Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by xd » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 8:33 AM UTC

Gov.uk Platform as a Service
cloud.service.gov.uk

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

#2

Post by buggeryorkshire » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:02 PM UTC

This is a good thing. But not for ukcloud, who are still the worst provider in this space.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

#3

Post by that_guy_iain » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:05 PM UTC

Looking at the fact it has S3 and SQS in the calculator this could just be hosted on AWS but with payment done via the internal budgeting stuff.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

#4

Post by guiriduro » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

Looks like a decent CloudFoundry implementation, doing what its good at: keeping developer teams abstracted from lower level cloud infrastructure and orchestration internals.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

#5

Post by ilikerashers » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:34 PM UTC

Very difficult to have a one size fits all unfortunately. There is a lot of variance around what a secure platform should do across government.

There are already a ton of snowflake "single platform for X department" deployments.

That said, I applaud the effort and hope it becomes the norm.

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by ollybee » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:40 PM UTC

that_guy_iain wrote: post #3

Looking at the fact it has S3 and SQS in the calculator this could just be hosted on AWS but with payment done via the internal budgeting stuff.

It is hosted on AWS, from the features page: "The platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services in the UK, "

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by ale42 » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:40 PM UTC

"The platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services in the UK"... (see the beginning at https://www.cloud.service.gov.uk/features/)

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by guiriduro » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

guiriduro wrote: post #4

Looks like a decent CloudFoundry implementation, doing what its good at: keeping developer teams abstracted from lower level cloud infrastructure and orchestration internals.

Which looks to be available here with a MIT license : https://github.com/alphagov/paas-cf

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by was_a_dev » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

Is the text rendering really poorly for anyone else? I've not had such issues on the goverment website before.

The issue seems to be with Firefox, there's no issue in Edge. I assume Chrome would be fine as well

Re: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

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Post by cassianoleal » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 12:55 PM UTC

was_a_dev wrote: post #9

Is the text rendering really poorly for anyone else? I've not had such issues on the goverment website before. The issue seems to be with Firefox, there's no issue in Edge. I assume Chrome would be fine as well

Looks fine for me. macOS Monterey 12.2, Firefox 96.0.2.