README.md

Gender Recognition Certificate service > Developer documentation

Developer documentation

Information for new developers:

• Accounts you will need to develop the service
• Software to install
• Getting the code running

Environments and deployments:

• Our environments
• Hosting and live databases
• Deployments
• HTTP Basic Authentication
• Domain names and IP restrictions

Database:

• TODO Database migrations

Other:

• Backing up the database and files externally to Gov.UK PaaS
• ClamAV virus scanning on Gov.UK PaaS
• Rotating encryption keys
• Useful commands

How-to:

• How to put the service into Maintenance Mode / "Service unavailable"

Miscellaneous documentation

Note: If we have time, we could put the following documentation into other sub-files.

Technical diagnostic pages

The Admin portal contains some technical diagnostic pages.
You will need to have an account on the Admin portal and have your IP address added to the allow list.
Once you have access, you can find the diagnostic pages here

Help Section

. venv/bin/activate

pip3 install Flask pip3 freeze | grep Flask >> requirements.txt pip3 freeze >> requirements.txt

pip list --format=freeze

pip3 freeze requirements.txt

https://docs.cloud.service.gov.uk/deploying_services/s3/#connect-to-an-s3-bucket-from-outside-of-the-gov-uk-paas cf service-key grc-s3-dev grc-s3-dev-key