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

Jan Hartmann j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl
Thu Aug 29 04:46:50 PDT 2019


Thanks, this is a nice example to build a MapServer Docker container 
with. I need PHP-MapScript and an Apache and a PostgreSQL server with 
PostGIS and PLR, so there still are a few things to figure out. But this 
is a very handy starting point.

Jan

On 8/29/2019 1:38 PM, Wouter Visscher wrote:
> On our github.com/PDOK <http://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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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> <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> <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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>>
>>         -- 
>>         Jeff McKenna
>>         MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>>         https://gatewaygeomatics.com/
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