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Last updated: 18 May 2020
Learn how GOV.UK works
Welcome to GOV.UK! Let’s start off by saying that GOV.UK publishing system is quite complex. It can be daunting task to get to know the platform. This page is meant as a starter guide to learning about GOV.UK.
2nd line
- 2nd line
- Licensify - supporting licensing
- Out of hours support (on-call)
- PagerDuty
- Rules for getting production access
- Welcome to 2nd line
- Zendesk
A/B testing
Applications
- Architectural deep-dive of GOV.UK
- Architecture overview of GOV.UK applications
- Configure linting
- Conventions for Rails applications
- Node classes without redundancy
Assets
AWS
- AWS IAM Key Rotation
- Common AWS tasks for 2nd line support
- How to raise a support ticket with AWS
- Migration to AWS
Backups
CDN & Caching
Cookies
data.gov.uk
Dependencies
Deployment
Docker
Documentation
Emails
Frontend
- Analytics on GOV.UK
- Find a rails template based on a GOV.UK URL or vice verca
- Frontend architecture
- Local frontend development
- The component system
- Which browsers we support
GitHub
Incidents
Infrastructure
- app_domain handling in GOV.UK during migration to AWS
- Concourse
- Domain Name System (DNS) records
- GOV.UK and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- GOV.UK’s environments (integration, staging, production)
- Load Testing
- New instances fail to provision
- Upgrade Terraform
Knowledge Graph
Learning GOV.UK
Logging
Monitoring
- Environment data sync
- Grafana
- Graphite and deployment dashboards
- Icinga
- Metrics
- Pingdom Bouncer canary check
- Screens that we have in the office
- Sentry
- Sidekiq
- Tools: Icinga, Grafana and Graphite, Kibana, Fabric and friends
- Uptime Metrics
Notify Emergency Alerts
Publishing
- How the draft stack works
- How the topic taxonomy works
- How the world taxonomy works
- Related links
- What data we expose as schema.org structured data