Container Platform User Guide

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Welcome! We’re developing a new user guide for the Ministry of Justice’s Container Platform. We look forward to sharing it with you soon—please wait for confirmation before using it.

Overview

• What is the Container Platform?
• What Cluster Should I Use?

Getting started

• Deploying an application to the Container Platform
• Accessing the Container Platform

Networking

• Web Application Firewall (WAF) Overview
• Web Application Firewall Logging and Troubleshooting
• Web Application Firewall Rules and Exceptions
• Gateway API and Envoy Proxy
• Connecting to a Cloud Platform database
• Connecting to a Modernisation Platform database
• Connecting to a Remote Database From an Application
• Connecting to a Remote Database With A Port Forwarding Pod

Getting help

Please raise any issues in the #container-platform-alpha-users channel.

Adding to the guide

If there’s something missing, please either let us know and we’ll add a new article, or if you’re comfortable writing one yourself, PRs will be gratefully received. Details on how to get in touch are in the “Getting Help” section above, and the “GitHub” link at the top right of this page will take you to the repository for this guide.

This page was last reviewed on 11 September 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 11 March 2027 by the page owner #cloud-platform-notify .