[mapserver-users] Gallery: running mapserver in docker on kubernetes

Wouter Visscher wouter.visscher at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 04:38:26 PDT 2019


On our github.com/PDOK is information/README.md on the Dockerfiles we run
(also on docker hub https://hub.docker.com/u/pdok) we run a mapserver setup
with lighttpd, we made this setup with deployment to kubernetes in mind. So
we can interact with configmaps, secrets, env variables and so on..

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 14:10 Jan Hartmann, <j.l.h.hartmann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wouter, I am definitely interested in your setups, especially the
> docker containers with mapserver. I've also a lot of separate mapserver
> applications that I would like to manage more as a whole. Although not with
> 12 billion requests a year . An example is the complete population
> administration of Friesland on historical and modern maps (mostly PDOK)
> from 1750 to 1890:
>
> https://maps.hisgis.nl/fr/fs/
>
> Please let me know what is already available  from PDOK; if possible and
> useful, I would very much like to participate in the pilot, e.g. concerning
> the MapServer Wiki part. I've been using MapServer since 2000
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan Hartmann
> University of Amsterdam
> https://www.uva.nl/profiel/h/a/j.l.h.hartmann/j.l.h.hartmann.html
>
> On 8/29/2019 12:54 PM, Wouter Visscher wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I will get on to that and put something on
> github.
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 12:24 Jeff McKenna, <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for wanting to share this; the best way is to create a new wiki
>> page on the MapServer wiki (https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki)
>> and there you can outline all of your infrastructure tricks, then you
>> can come back here and paste your link to your MapServer magic :)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2019-08-29 4:55 AM, Wouter Visscher wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm working for the Dutch NSDI www.pdok.nl <http://www.pdok.nl/>,
>> where
>> > we have around 200 datasets ranging from the larger ones like address,
>> > buildings, cadastral parcels and smaller ones like hikingtrails,
>> > natura2000, and so on. Our platform is used a lot in the Netherlands,
>> > both by the public and private sector, last year we hit 12 billion
>> > requests. To be able to handle that amount of traffic we are now in a
>> > transition, moving from a private cloud solution to the public cloud.
>> > With this change, we needed to refactor our software stack.
>> >
>> > Through some experimentation, and on the job 'training' we are now
>> > running the following setup:
>> > A minio.io <http://minio.io/> (S3) blobstore, containing geopackages
>> > with the vector data and geotiff's for the rasters.
>> > Our mapserver configurations connects to these files with /vsicurl/.
>> Our
>> > mapservers are in docker containers that we run on kubernetes.
>> > With this setup we are able to create a scalable infrastructure from
>> > which we can push WMS/WFS/WMTS interfaces to the web.
>> >
>> > If people are interested in how we deploy our mapserver software stacks
>> > I would be happy to share our k8s deployment setup/configurations.
>> >
>> > Wouter Visscher
>> >
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>>
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>> Jeff McKenna
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>> https://gatewaygeomatics.com/
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