New Zealand Government Common Web Platform
A common platform as a service for New Zealand Government websites.
The Common Web Platform (CWP) provides a feature-rich content management system (CMS), hosting, back up, disaster recovery, an online code repository, Service Desk, cofunded development pool and proactive patching to keep your website secure. Read more about CWP features.
This website provides information about the CWP product, and guidance for those that are using it. The about section provides general information about CWP, its benefits and information to help build a financial case. The section also explains how CWP works and how an agency selects the CWP instance size they require. The features section explains the capabilities of the SilverStripe CMS and the features included in a default CWP website. The features section also explains CWP services and provides some technical information about CWP. The guides section has information about how CWP operates, including requesting a new instance and CWP roles and responsibilities. It also has guides for using the CMS, and developing CWP websites.
CWP was launched on 16 September 2013. Read the press release from Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain. (external link) CWP is part of the Government ICT Strategy and Action Plan to 2017, which is available at: www.ict.govt.nz/strategy. (external link)
If you are interested in how CWP is progressing, the DIA product manager is publishing blog posts on the Web Toolkit (external link) . For agency staff there is also a CWP discussion forum in Yammer (external link) in the GovtWeb group. If you aren't a member of the GovtWeb group, email online@dia.govt.nz. For developers there is a CWP community forum (external link) setup to discuss the SilverStripe open source code used on the Platform. It's an open space for developers to share ideas and help each other.
Recent Changes:
- Quarterly Software Recipe Release (v1.05, November 2014)
- Release Management guide (including security and standard details) updated (July 2014)
- Introduction of a Web Application Firewall, Content Delivery Network, and VPN End-Points (June 2014)
- Geographical Load Balancing now supported by Active DR Instances (June 2014)
- Automation of database and asset transfers now available (May 2014)
- Creation of Deployment Manager and Backups Roles (May 2014)
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