Container technology (FOI211039)

This Freedom of Information request asks information and our plans relating to container technology

Request for information - Ref no: FOI211039

October 12, 2021

Information request

Thank you for your email of 23/09/2021, requesting information from Ordnance Survey in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, as set out in the extract below:

“I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with the following response to my questions.

Does your organisation current have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the Kubernetes container technology?
Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the Docker or Docker SWARM technology platform?
Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the Rancher technology platform?
Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the IBM Open Shift technology platform?
Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the VMware Tanzu technology platform?”

Our response

I confirm that Ordnance Survey does hold information you have requested. Taking each request in turn, I confirm the following:

1. Does your organisation current have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the Kubernetes container technology?

Yes, OS currently has deployed Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

2. Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the Docker or Docker SWARM technology platform?

Yes, OS currently has deployed Docker Desktop.

No, OS does not currently have deployed Docker SWARM and do not have plans to deploy this in the next 6 months.

3. Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the Rancher technology platform?

4. Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the IBM Open Shift technology platform?

5. Does you organisations currently have deployed or plan to deploy in the next 6 months the VMware Tanzu technology platform

I confirm there are no current plans to incorporate any more containerisation technologies than those listed at questions 1 and 2 at this stage, although should the need arise, we will consider the most appropriate tooling at that time.

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