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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 med

by 46Bit 5y ago

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.

regularfry 5y ago
When you say "based on", how much is layered on top?
- severalbadgers 5y ago
  (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.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Slightly OT: but how many badgers are we talking about here? This many? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
    - severalbadgers 5y ago
      At least 4, but varying based on badger availability and amount of work needing to be done
  - regularfry 5y ago
    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.
denysvitali 5y ago
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/ https://www.waypointproject.io/ [1]: https://github.com/swisscom/waypoint-plugin-cloudfoundry https://github.com/swisscom/waypoint-plugin-cloudfoundry
- severalbadgers 5y ago
  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.

by 46Bit 5y ago

regularfry 5y ago

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

severalbadgers 5y ago
(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.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Slightly OT: but how many badgers are we talking about here? This many? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
  - severalbadgers 5y ago
    At least 4, but varying based on badger availability and amount of work needing to be done
- regularfry 5y ago
  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.

denysvitali 5y ago

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

severalbadgers 5y ago
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.