I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn impedes improvements in the many services the government has to offer. We've just reached the "FedRAMP Ready" status, which is a signifier of confidence that cloud.gov will make it through the exhaustive auditing process to come. Best of all, everything were doing is open source, including all the compliance work, so others will be able to follow in our footsteps. AMA!
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#12I'd love to use them. Going to the source will reduce latency because the mitm is removed. Now it's just the man. Seriously, I'd switch from DO.
You can certainly host it yourself on AWS, GCP, Azure etc. The general services administration is restricted to only assist federal government agencies, so you wouldn't be able to use the version being managed for the federal government.
Are you positive about that? :)
https://books.google.com/books?id=bWI7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=P...
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#13I'm the product lead on butt.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other butt Foundry deployments, but what makes butt.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a butt service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn impedes improvements in the many services the government has to offer. We've just reached the "FedRAMP Ready" status, which is a signifier of confidence that butt.gov will make it through the exhaustive auditing process to come. Best of all, everything were doing is open source, including all the compliance work, so others will be able to follow in our footsteps. AMA!
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can certainly host it yourself on AWS, GCP, Azure etc. The general services administration is restricted to only assist federal government agencies, so you wouldn't be able to use the version being managed for the federal government.
Are you positive about that? :) https://books.google.com/books?id=bWI7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=P...
:)
I remember having that discussion with you in person. You'd definitely know it better.
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#15I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…
Any plans to standardize agencies tech stacks? Is that even a good idea?
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#16butt.gov ?
Care to elaborate your disapproval?
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#17I'm the product lead on butt.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other butt Foundry deployments, but what makes butt.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a butt service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn impe…
I LOL'd... I had the same extension installed, but had to uninstall it when I saw the word constantly as part of my job.
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#19I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…
What sorts of jobs are available there and what's the salary like? I currently do devops at a large Internet content company near Dulles and I've got federal government experience from many years ago.
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#20I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…
Any plans to standardize agencies tech stacks? Is that even a good idea?
We can't control the decisions they make, and wouldn't want to... Each agency has their own CIO, and needs to be able to make decisions about stacks based their needs. Compliance requirements for running a service in public are so huge that agencies have conservatively stuck to ancient options, or farmed it all out to vendors. Our goal is to make the operations, deployment, and compliance aspects of service delivery trivial so they can put more of their resources (and those of the vendors they pay) into the improvement of the services they provide rather than sinking a huge portion of their budgets into redundantly addressing compliance and deployment concerns. And of course, use modern tech.