Infrastructure

Last updated: 17 Sep 2020

Load Testing

We sometimes need to run load tests against GOV.UK and for that we use a tool called Gatling. All the information on how to perform load testing is stored in the govuk-load-testing repository.

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Learn

• 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)
• Upgrade Terraform

How to...

• Add a disk to a vCloud machine (Carrenza only)
• Add a new Ruby version
• Connect to vCloud Director (Carrenza only)
• Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for GOV.UK
• Manage RabbitMQ
• Manually resize ASGs (auto scaling groups)
• Move apps between servers
• Patch Jenkins
• Provision machines for data science research
• Reboot a machine
• Remove a machine
• Renew a TLS certificate for GOV.UK
• Reprovision a machine