Modernisation Platform

The Modernisation Platform is a hosting platform where Ministry of Justice teams can host and modernise applications which are not suitable for the Cloud Platform.

This repository holds the Ministry of Justice’s Modernisation Platform concepts, team information, team guide, and user guide to help onboard and support the users of our service.

Who is this for?

This documentation is for anyone interested in the Modernisation Platform and its core concepts; for users of the Modernisation Platform; and for the team.

User guide

• Should I use the Cloud Platform, or the Modernisation Platform?
• Our offer to you
• Sustainability

Getting started

• Creating environments (aka AWS accounts)
• Creating networking resources
• Accessing the AWS Console
• Getting AWS Credentials
• Creating resources
• Deploying your infrastructure
• Deploying your application
• Standard environment diagram
• Working as a Collaborator

How to guides

• Running Terraform plan locally
• Accessing EC2s
• Wider MoJ Connectivity
• How to configure DNS for public services
• How to import a public SSL certificate into AWS Certificate Manager

Concepts

Environments (AWS Accounts)

• The problem and our solution
• Environment Architecture
• Security
• Single Sign On
• Backups
• Auto-nuke

Networking

• Networking approach
• Networking Architecture Diagram
• Subnet CIDR Allocation
• Bastions and Instance Access
• DNS
• Certificate Services

Software Development Lifecycle

• Repositories
• Core Workflow (CI/CD)
• User Workflow (CI/CD)

Modernisation Platform Team information

• Our alliance
• Our roadmap
• Our team
• Our vision

Runbooks

• Main Platform Runbook
• Disaster recovery
• How to deal with an incident
• DoS Attack
• Joining the team
• Terraform
• Useful scripts
• Adding a new team member to the Modernisation Platform
• Accessing AWS accounts
• Deleting an environment (AWS account)
• Modifying Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• Changing environment (AWS account) details
• Adding collaborators
• Adding wider connectivity
• Removing a team member from the Modernisation Platform
• Querying VPC flow logs
• Creating Automated Terraform Documentation
• Enabling AWS Shield Advanced

Getting help

• Ask for help

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