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Updating the GOV.UK Continuous Integration environment

Posted by: Laura Martin, Posted on: 10 February 2017 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools, Transformation
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  Our team makes sure the GOV.UK infrastructure is up to date and maintained, while also providing infrastructure for new requirements. At the moment it’s our mission to “Upgrade the Things”, which involves a series of major updates to our …

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Our technology community away day

Posted by: David Heath, Posted on: 2 September 2016 - Categories: Chat, Digital Marketplace, GaaP, GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify

Over the past year at GDS, we’ve been working hard to create a strong technology community. Recently we took a day out of the office together. The GDS Technology community is pretty big – just over 90 civil servants and …

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How we used vCloud Tools to provision a new platform

Posted by: Matt Bostock, Posted on: 21 May 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Open Source, Tools

We recently moved GOV.UK to a new and improved platform. We used vCloud Tools, open source software developed in-house at GDS, to create the virtual machines and networks required as well as configure the firewall, NAT rules and load balancers. Why …

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Applying for a job at GDS

Posted by: Anna Shipman, Posted on: 24 December 2013 - Categories: Chat

This post is now outdated. For a more up-to-date explanation of applying to GDS please read Applying for a job at GDS: update. Over the next few months we will be recruiting for a number of roles, including developers and …

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