Welcome to the Private Cloud as a Service Platform Technical Documentation

Get started

Start here for the first steps on working in our OpenShift environment.

• Provision a new project in OpenShift
• User access in OpenShift
• Project resource quotas

Build, deploy and maintain apps

Best practices on the platform.

• Build an application
• Deploy an application
• Maintain an application
• Retire an application

Free OpenShift training

Read about the free training that is offered on the Platform and get access to other learning resources.

Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat will be your main communication channel for platform updates and support while you work in the B.C. Government Private Cloud PaaS. Read about the steps to join Rocket.Chat

Log in to Rocket.Chat

Platform community MeetUps

Every 3 weeks, we host a platform community MeetUp where product teams from across the B.C. government give technical demos of their application.

Learn how to register for this and other events.

Security and privacy compliance

• STRA and PIA requirements for applications
• Vault secrets management service
• Artifactory trusted repository service
• Security best practices for apps

Use GitHub in BC Gov

• B.C. government organizations in GitHub
• Common platform requests in the B.C. Government Private Cloud PaaS
• Start working in BCGov GitHub organization

Automation and resiliency

• App resiliency guidelines
• CI/CD pipeline automation

App monitoring

• Set up a team in Sysdig Monitor
• Set up advance functions in Sysdig Monitor
• Four gold signals for app monitoring (coming soon)
• App logging (coming soon)

Database and API management

• Open source database technologies
• High availability database clusters

Reusable code and services

• Pathfinder SSO Keycloak
• Reusable services list
• Project examples (coming soon)

Platform architecture reference

• Platform storage
• Platform architecture diagram
• OpenShift network policies
• Platform network topology
• Set up TCP connectivity on the Private cloud Openshift platform

Report a platform incident

If you think an incident has occurred with our services, you can report it by following these steps.

Get help or support

We follow a community-based support model. You can use our self-serve resources or ask for help from the platform community. Learn how to get help on the Platform.

DevOps requests

Not sure where to go to get things done on the platform? We've outlined common platform tasks and links to additional instructions. Learn how to get help with some of the most commonly searched-for tasks.