Gov.uk Platform as a Service

Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by 46Bit on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:18AM (#30101544)

I worked on this for nearly four years. It’s a great fit for a lot of government needs: they need a stable, reasonably secure platform that helps them build medium-complexity websites.

It’s based on Cloud Foundry, a “run your own Heroku”-type project. That’s starting to show it’s age now but it’s been a great model and had major benefits in government.

Happy to answer more questions.

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by denysvitali on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:24PM (#30106936)

Also interesting to mention: if you use gov.uk's PaaS, then you can use the Hashicorp Waypoint [0] plugin for Cloud Foundry [1] :)

[0]: https://www.waypointproject.io/

[1]: https://github.com/swisscom/waypoint-plugin-cloudfoundry

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by severalbadgers on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:01AM (#30112697)

Yaknow, I was expecting somebody would make a CF plugin for Waypoint. I just didn't expect it'd be before 1.0! I'm going to take a look at this, thanks.

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by regularfry on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:56AM (#30102057)

When you say "based on", how much is layered on top?

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by severalbadgers on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:02AM (#30102134)

(current PaaS person here)

We've maintained the core Cloud Foundry experience, and added value around the edge with service brokers, good documentation, support, app autoscaling (using the CF-blessed autoscaler, which doesn't come "in the box"), some additional metrics, and a couple other bits.

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by regularfry on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:52AM (#30113507)

That's interesting. Where I work we've got an in-house deployment of a CF fork (public, not ours) which... yeah, nobody likes, and AWS and GCP are getting more of our money every year as we shift stuff off.

Just the autoscaling wouldn't be enough to keep us on it, but running it on someone-else's-infrastructure with a proper support model might.

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by kingcharles on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:49PM (#30107232)

Slightly OT: but how many badgers are we talking about here? This many? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

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Re:Gov.uk Platform as a Service by severalbadgers on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:00AM (#30112685)

At least 4, but varying based on badger availability and amount of work needing to be done

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