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Developing GOV.UK with Docker

Posted by: Ben Thorner, Developer, GDS, Posted on: 25 February 2020 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools
Members of the GOV.UK team attend a training session on using Docker

We’ve switched to using Docker ‘containers’ for our local development environment, which has made it simpler to use and less error-prone.

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Cutting the maintenance strings on Puppet::Syntax

Posted by: Bob Walker, Posted on: 9 January 2017 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source, Tools

Today we’re handing over the maintenance of our Puppet::Syntax tool to an open source community group.

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Opening GOV.UK's Puppet repository

Posted by: Alex Muller, Posted on: 19 January 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source
Make things open it makes things better

Point 8 of the Digital by Default Service Standard that we publish on GOV.UK says that source code for government services should be open and reusable, and our 10th design principle is "Make things open: it makes things better". We …

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