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This is the pre-launch documentation for Cloud.gov Workshop, a new service coming soon!

Overview

This is the public documentation collection for Cloud.gov Workshop, which provides services, tools, and patterns to make it easier to create and maintain software in government.

Sections

Cloud.gov Workshop documentation is organized into the following main sections:

• Tutorials to learn how to use Workshop with step by step hands on activities.
• Guides for when you know what you want to do and you need to know how to do it using Workshop.
• Concepts to understand more about how Workshop works and why it works that way.
• Reference to lookup specific technical, security, and other Workshop related information.

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Use tags to find related documents grouped by topic.

In addition to sections, documents are also tagged by topic. These tags appear at the bottom of each document. See /tags/ for the full list of Cloud.gov topic tags. Workshop specific topics start with "Workshop".

Introduction

Workshop's SaaS service is FedRAMP Moderate authorized and hosted at workshop.cloud.gov. It provides:

• Source Code Management (SCM) - Collaborative git based source control with safe defaults like requiring change approvals. An in-browser IDE is included for editing code when you don't have tools on your workstation. (Topic: Workshop Source Code Management)
• Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) automation - CI/CD jobs are defined in code in the same place as your code. Job runners are included, executing steps on the Cloud.gov PaaS. Users can also bring their own runners. (Topic: Workshop CI/CD)
• Integrated secure software development tools - A full suite of built in software security features including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Software Bill of Material (SBOM) generation, and security vulnerability/tracking dashboards. (Topic: Workshop Security)
• Container image repositories, package repositories, and IaC state storage - Built artifacts can be stored and published from the Workshop system. Terraform can use Workshop to store state information. (Topic: Workshop Artifacts)
• Agile development planning tools - Project boards, issues, epics, and more for multi-disciplinary teams to continuously and collaboratively plan and track their work. (Topic: Workshop Planning)
• Single sign on (SSO) - Utilizes Cloud.gov's standard authentication which supports integrating with agency identity providers.

If you are not a Cloud.gov Workshop customer and would like to learn more see Cloud.gov Workshop.

Getting started with Workshop

If you are new to Workshop we suggest starting with the Getting started with Workshop tutorial.