Studio Hosting user guide

Who is this user guide for?

This user guide is for service teams with applications deployed, or intending to deploy, to the Ministry of Justice’s Studio Hosting. The platform manages the infrastructure that your application runs on and provides tooling for teams to deploy and manage their applications on that infrastructure.

Alternative platforms

• Cloud Platform
• Modernisation Platform

Quickstart

• Overview of Studio Hosting
• Deploy your first Hello World application

How-to guides

• How to use kubectl to connect to the cluster
• Creating a Studio Hosting Environment
• Creating an DockerHub repository for your docker images
• Removing an unneeded namespace

Concepts

• Kubernetes
• Deploying to Studio Hosting
• OFFICIAL SENSITIVE - can my service be hosted on Studio Hosting?

Tutorials

• Deploying a Hello World application

Deploying with Helm and CircleCI

In Progress

Monitoring applications

• Application Monitoring
• Kubernetes Monitoring
• External Endpoint Monitoring

Application logging

In Progress

Other topics

• Adding a secret to an application
• Studio Hosting Support
• Time Zone Cronjobs
• Git-Crypt
• Kubernetes Cronjobs
• IP Filtering
• Kubectl quick reference
• Troubleshooting guide
• Secrets overview
• Namespace/Container Resource Limits

Reference

• Studio Hosting Operational Processes
• Studio Hosting Support
• Kubernetes resources

Getting help

• Ask Studio Hosting

Adding to the guide

If there’s something missing, please either let us know and we’ll add a new article, or if you’re comfortable writing one yourself, PRs will be gratefully received. Details on how to get in touch are in the “Getting Help” section above, and the “GithHub” link at the top right of this page will take you to the repository for this guide.