building a paas for government @ cloud expo europe
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Colin Saliceti Web operations engineer Government Digital Service [email protected]
Building a PaaS for Government
What is GDS?
GDS
“We help government make digital services and information simpler, clearer and faster.”
GDS
“We put users' needs before the needs of government.”
GDS
GDSwww.gov.uk
14m unique visitors a month more than 800 services
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GOV.UK unique visitors
GDSwww.gov.uk/service-manual
GDS Service manual
How do we host these services?
GDS
In 2015 GDS launched Government as a Platform
GDS
“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
GaaP includes Platform as a Service for Government
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What is a Platform as a Service?
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Users(you)
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tsuru
What did we do?
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Selection process
Must have: multi-tenant
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Must have: self service
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Must have: multi-vendor
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Must have: multi programming language
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Must have: add backend services
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Must have: resilient to failure
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26 criteria and investigation points 27 solutions considered 13 solutions tested
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tsuru
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We built full scale prototypes
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We let the users deploy their apps
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We made our choice
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Going a bit deeper
Our cloud provider is currently AWS
GDSaws.amazon.com
We use Terraform to build low-level infra
GDSwww.terraform.io
GDSwww.terraform.io
GDS
IaaS configuration
www.terraform.io
We use BOSH to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry
GDSbosh.io
GDS
BOSH
bosh.io
GDS
IaaS configuration
bosh.io
GDS
IaaS configuration
Cloud Foundry servers
Cloud Foundry processesBOSH
bosh.io
We orchestrate the build with Concourse
GDSconcourse.ci
GDSconcourse.ci
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IaaS configuration
Cloud Foundry servers
Cloud Foundry processesBOSH
concourse.ci
GDS
IaaS configuration
Cloud Foundry servers
Cloud Foundry processesBOSH
concourse.ci
And finally…
GDSconcourse.ci
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IaaS configuration
Cloud Foundry servers
Cloud Foundry processesBOSH
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IaaS configuration
Cloud Foundry servers
Cloud Foundry processesBOSH
User deployed applications
We’re hiring
gds.blog.gov.uk/jobs