Concepts and standards

Conventions specific to services on the Cloud Native Platform:

• Pipeline libraries
• Publishing libraries
• CNP Artifactory
• Use standardised environments
• Making a database schema change

HMCTS-wide standards that apply to CNP as well as every other platform — branching, pull requests, feature flags, API design, versioning, security and the rest — are in the standards section.

This page was last reviewed on 12 October 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 12 April 2027 by the page owner platops-build-notices .