Applications on GOV.UK
GOV.UK consists of at least 61 separate applications.
Most of them are built using Ruby on Rails, hosted on Kubernetes, configured using govuk-helm-charts and deployed using ArgoCD.
Each application should be owned by a team. What application ownership means in practice.
Apps can be loosely grouped into different types, including:
Apps by type
Type |
Count |
Applications |
AI apps |
1 |
govuk-chat |
APIs |
14 |
account-api, asset-manager, content-data-api, content-store, email-alert-api, hmrc-manuals-api, link-checker-api, locations-api, places-manager, publishing-api, router-api, search-api, search-api-v2, support-api
|
Data science |
2 |
govuk-knowledge-graph-gcp, govuk-knowledge-graph-search
|
Frontend apps |
8 |
collections, email-alert-frontend, feedback, finder-frontend, frontend, government-frontend, smart-answers, static
|
Licensing apps |
3 |
licensify-backend, licensify-frontend, licensify-feed
|
Publishing apps |
13 |
collections-publisher, contacts-admin, content-publisher, content-tagger, local-links-manager, manuals-publisher, maslow, publisher, service-manual-publisher, short-url-manager, specialist-publisher, travel-advice-publisher, whitehall
|
Services |
1 |
email-alert-service |
Supporting apps |
7 |
authenticating-proxy, content-data-admin, release, router, search-admin, signon, support
|
Transition apps |
2 |
bouncer, transition
|
Utilities |
7 |
github-trello-poster, govspeak-preview, govuk-dependency-checker, govuk-display-screen, govuk-e2e-tests, govuk-pact-broker, govuk-sli-collector
|
data.gov.uk apps |
3 |
ckanext-datagovuk, datagovuk_find, datagovuk_publish
|
Apps by team
Team |
Count |
Applications |
#data-engineering |
2 |
govuk-knowledge-graph-gcp, govuk-knowledge-graph-search
|
#dev-notifications-ai-govuk |
2 |
govuk-chat, search-api
|
#gds-apto-collaboration |
3 |
licensify-backend, licensify-frontend, licensify-feed
|
#govuk-datagovuk |
3 |
ckanext-datagovuk, datagovuk_find, datagovuk_publish
|
#govuk-insights-and-analytics |
1 |
govuk-display-screen |
#govuk-navigation-tech |
4 |
collections, frontend, government-frontend, static
|
#govuk-patterns-and-pages |
9 |
account-api, email-alert-api, email-alert-frontend, email-alert-service, feedback, finder-frontend, local-links-manager, locations-api, places-manager
|
#govuk-platform-engineering |
11 |
content-data-admin, content-data-api, github-trello-poster, govuk-dependency-checker, govuk-e2e-tests, govuk-pact-broker, release, router, router-api, support, support-api
|
#govuk-publishing-mainstream-experience-tech |
4 |
collections-publisher, content-tagger, publisher, smart-answers
|
#govuk-publishing-platform |
11 |
asset-manager, authenticating-proxy, bouncer, content-store, govspeak-preview, govuk-sli-collector, hmrc-manuals-api, link-checker-api, publishing-api, signon, transition
|
#govuk-search-improvement |
2 |
search-admin, search-api-v2
|
#govuk-whitehall-experience-tech |
9 |
contacts-admin, content-publisher, manuals-publisher, maslow, service-manual-publisher, short-url-manager, specialist-publisher, travel-advice-publisher, whitehall
|
Reuse this data
You can download this data as JSON or as CSV. It’s available for the hosted
applications (apps.json and apps.csv) or
all the repositories (repos.json and repos.csv).
In Google Spreadsheets, use the following formula to import all of the data:
=importData("https://docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/apps.csv")