A DevOps community for a whole province.
The BCDevExchange is a technology community inside the Government of British Columbia that helps teams control the deployment of their applications and deliver better digital services. Justin Hewitt leads DevOps Platform Services for the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Developers and vendors, working in silos.
The BCDevExchange brings government developers and outside vendors together. Without one secure place to talk, information stayed siloed and problems took longer to solve.
In 2016, cloud tools did not meet the Province’s legislative requirements. It needed a self-managed, open-source platform it controlled, built for working in the open rather than in closed teams.
“We couldn’t use a cloud-based solution because of legislative, policy, and security requirements we faced in 2016. We needed to find something else that was very similar, but more secure.”
Secure, open-source, and open to everyone who needs it.
The BCDevExchange runs Rocket.Chat self-managed on the Government of BC’s private cloud, with full control of where data sits at rest. Its API made integration with the rest of the private cloud seamless.
Government developers and external vendors now work together instantly. Anyone can flag a problem and bring the whole community to it.
“When you talk about Rocket.Chat’s ability to scale, the biggest selling point is its ease-of-use. Integrating it with the other products in our private cloud was seamless.”
Days, not weeks or months.
More than 2,000 developers use Rocket.Chat to share ideas and solve problems. Issues surface sooner and get fixed in days instead of weeks or months, in some cases up to 10x faster.
“We have a much shorter time to detection. When an issue comes up we can reach a solution much faster, because all of the external vendors and internal developers who are on those Rocket.Chat channels will already have seen it, and acted on it together.”
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