Building a PaaS for Government @ Cloud expo Europe
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Colin Saliceti outlines the Government Digital Service (GDS), which aims to simplify digital services for users, emphasizing a user-centric approach. GDS launched 'Government as a Platform' in 2015 to provide a shared infrastructure for developing government services, utilizing platform as a service (PaaS) technologies. The document details the selection process for PaaS solutions, the current cloud provider (AWS), and the use of tools like Terraform and BOSH for managing infrastructure and deployments.
Building a PaaS for Government @ Cloud expo Europe
- 1. Colin Saliceti Web operations engineer Government Digital Service [email protected]fice.gov.uk
- 2. Building a PaaS for Government
- 4. “We help government make digital services and information simpler, clearer and faster.” GDS
- 5. “We put users' needs before the needs of government.” GDS
- 7. 14m unique visitors a month more than 800 services GDS
- 10. How do we host these services? GDS
- 11. In 2015 GDS launched Government as a Platform GDS
- 12. “A common core infrastructure of shared digital systems, technology and processes on which it’s easy to build brilliant, user-centric government services.” GDSgovernmentasaplatform.blog.gov.uk
- 14. GaaP includes Platform as a Service for Government GDS
- 15. What is a Platform as a Service? GDS
- 17. GDS Controller CellCellCellCellCellAppsRouter CellCellCellCellCellServices Developer Users (you)
- 18. GDS
- 19. GDS tsuru
- 20. What did we do?
- 23. Must have: self service GDS
- 25. Must have: multi programming language GDS
- 26. Must have: add backend services GDS
- 27. Must have: resilient to failure GDS
- 28. 26 criteria and investigation points 27 solutions considered 13 solutions tested GDS
- 29. GDS tsuru
- 30. GDS tsuru
- 31. We built full scale prototypes GDS
- 32. We let the users deploy their apps GDS
- 33. We made our choice GDS
- 34. GDS tsuru
- 38. Our cloud provider is currently AWS GDSaws.amazon.com
- 39. We use Terraform to build low-level infra GDSwww.terraform.io
- 42. We use BOSH to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry GDSbosh.io
- 43. GDS BOSH bosh.io
- 45. GDS IaaS configuration Cloud Foundry servers Cloud Foundry processes BOSH bosh.io
- 46. We orchestrate the build with Concourse GDSconcourse.ci
- 47. GDSconcourse.ci
- 48. GDS IaaS configuration Cloud Foundry servers Cloud Foundry processes BOSH concourse.ci
- 49. GDS IaaS configuration Cloud Foundry servers Cloud Foundry processes BOSH concourse.ci
- 51. GDS IaaS configuration Cloud Foundry servers Cloud Foundry processes BOSH
- 52. GDS IaaS configuration Cloud Foundry servers Cloud Foundry processes BOSH User deployed applications
- 55. We’re hiring