Find teacher training - GOV.UK PaaS

Our application is hosted on GOV.UK PaaS in the London region. It is a service built and managed by a team in GDS.

It uses the open source Cloud Foundry platform and run on AWS.

Getting a PaaS account

You can get an account by requesting in the #digital-tools-support channel. Request for an account with a SpaceDeveloper role to be created under your @digital.education.gov.uk email address and access to the dfe organisation and the below spaces:

Spaces
bat-qa
bat-staging
bat-prod

Using the Cloud Foundry CLI

The cloud foundry cli is used to manage and view apps and services hosted on PaaS. Download

Logging into a space

Use the below command to login for the first time

cf login -a https://api.london.cloud.service.gov.uk --sso

Once you enter the correct authentication code from https://login.london.cloud.service.gov.uk/passcode , you'll be prompted to select a space from a list of spaces.

Targeted org dfe-teacher-services

Select a space:
1. bat-qa
2. bat-staging
3. bat-prod

Space (enter to skip):

Enter a number from the list and all your subsequent commands will be run under the context of that space.

To change to a different space, run the below:

cf target -s [SPACE_NAME]

Useful cf commands

View all applications in a space

cf apps

View all backing services in a space

cf services

View information of a particular app

cf app [APP_NAME]

Tail logs in the command line

cf logs [APP_NAME]

View recent logs

cf logs [APP_NAME] --recent

View app environment variables

cf env [APP_NAME]

Shell into an application container

cf v3-ssh [APP_NAME]

Accessing Rails Console

cf v3-ssh [APP_NAME]
cd /app
/usr/local/bin/bundle exec rails console