See the full presentation video and read the post on Acquia.com at: https://www.acquia.com/podcast/resources/podcasts/government-service-architecting-govcms-australia/23/10/2015/3289371 govCMS: Government as a Service - Adam Malone, Acquia Solutions Architect APJ The Australian Federal Government has taken the revolutionary step of standardising on Drupal in public cloud. govCMS is a 'Whole of Government' solution that any federal or state level agency can join, leveraging the infrastructure, knowledge and experience of the collective government. By pioneering this solution, the Australian Government are putting a stake in the ground and challenging the traditional private, proprietary, closed source approaches taken in the past. This opens up new possibilities for governments around the World in their search for an ideal platform to interact with their citizens. In Adam's session, he covers the process of taking govCMS from an idea to a platform capable of delivering the government as a service. Topics include: - Lessons learned along the way - How broad solutions can be engineered - The decisions needed to keep govCMS from bloating - The benefits this entire project brings to the Drupal community, to Australia, and to governments globally - How you can contribute

1. Government as a Service
Architecting govCMS
Adam Malone
@adammalone
Solutions Architect APJ, Acquia

2. About me
→Solutions Architect @ Acquia
→Drupal age: 4 and a bit
→Trivial patch of the month winner
→Emoji adept 👸 👷
→typhonius most places online
→Didn't realise typhonius was a species of toad

3. What is govCMS
Why Drupal + Public Cloud
What has been learned
How we're off the Island
Future

4. In the beginning

5. A modern approach to technology
→ Policy for eGovernment and the Digital Economy [let’s go online]
→ AU gov’s Open Source Policy [share code and functionality]
→ AU gov’s Cloud Computing Policy (v3) [save costs, ensure security]
→ Best practise service design — DTO [accessibility & easier to use]

6. govCMS is a whole of gov re-think about online, agile,
accessibility, procurement, security, support and open
source.
Not just code.

7. Criteria for govCMS

8. What is govCMS

9. govCMS OOTB
→ Drupal
→ Security
→ Public Cloud
→ Deed
→ Agile
→ Design Standards / Accessibility
→ Services

10. Open Source
→ Security
→ Reuse
→ Rich pool of resources
→ Off the Island
→ No vendor lock in

11. Security
→ HTTPS everywhere
→ IP Whitelisting by default
→ No PII (yet)
→ Secure by default
→ Packaged DDOS / CDN
→ Compliant (AWS -> Acquia -> ACE -> ACSF -> govCMS)
→ IRAP assessed against the ISM

12. Reuse before buy before build
Principle 3 of the Australian Government Open Source Software Policy:
“Australian Government agencies will actively participate
in open source software communities and contribute back
where appropriate”
Functionality created by one agency can be made available for all

13. Distribution Governance
→ Governance is key
→ gOps
→ CAB
→ Requirements driven platform evolution
→ Documented procedures for:
→ Codebase additions
→ Platform deployment
→ Security audits

14. The problem

15. Leapfrogging giants

16. Many departments, one govCMS
Agency
govCMS
Platform
govCMS
Core

17. Patterns

18. govCMS Patterns
→Pattern 1
→govCMS OOTB
→Pattern 2
→Transitionary state
→Platform evolves to
meet requirements
→Pattern 3
→Custom

19. Architecture

20. Platform build

21. Patch workflow
→Regularly scheduled releases
→Prepared for hotfixes
→Distribution
→Feature branch workflow

22. There's a module for that!
→Critically define requirements
→Solve the unspoken question
→Consider the platform, not just the site
→Module/requirement review
→Problem rather than module

23. Keeping the codebase lean
→No need to recreate the wheel
→Change management becomes easier
→Leveraging the community
→Remember what brought us here

24. The technical bits

25. Cloud
→AWS Sydney
→Constant 24/7 operational monitoring
→Disaster Recovery
→7 years of:
→Offsite site archival
→Offsite log storage

26. Acquia Cloud Site Factory
→SaaS application for Drupal
→Simplifies multisite management and operation
→Granular access per site/group
→Many sites, one codebase
→Site duplication
→Theming flexibility

27. Tooling
→Drupal
→Drush Make
→Phing
→Composer
→PhantomJS
→PHPCS
→Behat
→Git
→Travis CI
→Autodeploy

28. Building
Dependancies: git & composer
$ git clone git@github.com:govCMS/govCMS.git
$ cd govCMS
$ composer install --prefer-dist --working-dir=build
$ build/bin/phing -f build/phing/build.xml build

29. Testing
→Code
→Syntactically correct
→Drupal coding standards
→Cyclometric complexity
→Functional/Behavioural
→Behat
→Automated deployments

30. Behavioural testing
Feature: govCMS Google Analytics
Ensure the govCMS Google Analytics account is added.
Scenario: Check that the GA markup appears
Given I go to the homepage
Then the response should contain "UA-12312312-1"

31. The benefits

32. Benefits to agencies
→Setup cost drastically reduced
→Elimination of lengthy procurement/tendering
process
→Security/IRAP assessment completed
→Increase agility
→24/7 Support
→Pro-active alerting
→Security updates

33. Benefits to Australian residents
→Familiarity
→Rapid iteration and development
→Savings passed on

34. Benefits to government employees
→Freedom to contribute
→Agile process
→Modern tools
→Transferable skills
→Contributing to Open Source

35. Benefits to the Drupal community
→Flagship Drupal exemplar
→Mandate to contribute enhancements
→Increasing skills in Australia
→A stake in the ground worldwide

36. Future

37. Extending govCMS
→Expanded functionality
→Further interdepartmental sharing
→DTO
→Government as an API
→Services

38. govCMS Worldwide
→Wider impact on Open Source as an example
→KiwiCMS?
→SgCMS?
→UniCMS?

39. Try govCMS
→Fork us on GitHub
→https://github.com/govCMS
→Download from drupal.org
→https://www.drupal.org/project/govcms

40. Resources
→ http://www.communications.gov.au/
digital_economy
→ http://www.finance.gov.au/policy-guides-
procurement/open-source-software
→ http://www.finance.gov.au/policy-guides-
procurement/cloud

41. Questions?
@adammalone
typhonius
adam.malone@acquia.com
https://www.adammalone.net
https://www.acquia.com