Technology Services
This repository provides guidance and information on the services which make up Technology Services.
Who is this user guide for?
This documentation is for anyone interested in the Technology Services we run for staff and the teams who operate them.
Ministry of Justice Official
To provide staff across the MoJ with modern technology services that are a pleasure to use and which make their duties easier to perform
The following teams within Technology Operations run the Ministry of Justice Official services
Popular Services
- MoJO DHCP Overview - automatic device configuration of MoJO DNS. This service helps devices when connected at sites reach the internet.
- MoJO DNS Overview - public name resolution for staff devices when local and remote. This service protects user traffic by forwarding queries to Protective DNS.
- All MoJ Official Technical Documentation
Adding new guidance
Other MoJ Guidance
Acronyms
- Acronyms - a useful list of acronyms within the MoJ
Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform manages the infrastructure that your application runs on and provides tooling for teams to deploy and manage their applications on that infrastructure. By default, you must use the Cloud Platform unless you’re advised otherwise by a member of the Hosting team. If your team needs to host legacy services, you should plan to use see modernisation platform below.
Modernisation Platform
The Modernisation Platform is generally for applications that don’t fit into the Cloud Platform, which tend to be legacy applications.
Operations Engineering
The Operations Engineering team as a team the tools and standards we create will be made readily available across multiple platforms and hosting services across the organisation. Services include
- I want to access LastPass, in order to securely store and retrieve credentials.
- I want to add external partners to MoJ Github Org](https://github.com/ministryofjustice/github-collaborators) so they can contribute to code repositories.
- Sentry.io
- SSL Certificate Management
- Domain Management (Justice.gov.uk)
- MoJ Dockerhub Account
Security Guidance
The Security Guidance should be read together with the technical guidance below.
Technical Guidance
The Technical Guidance documents some of the technical decisions that the (MOJ) has made for the products we operate.
- I want to request a domain name for my service
- I want to use Git to maintain my service and documentation
- I want to share and version any knowledge that is unique to me
The service manual has some useful information on learning about and writing user needs.