[ckan-dev] Q&A for datacats installs?

Wed Jan 13 17:31:11 UTC 2016

Derek... I'm used to replying to you on the Geonode <http://geonode>
mailing list (small world)...

I recently joined this list as well as the data.gov team, and we've been
looking for a similar solution to datacats but our need requires us to
deploy CKAN using as little infrastructure as possible to scaffold out our
future deployments which will be docker based. Our plan is to use
http://bosh.io (an InfrastructureaaS agnostic
deployment/orchestration/health manager) to managed our future deployments
of docker/docker-swarm to handle the management of multiple CKANs as well
as load balancing...

Currently testing a docker based (alpha) repo that would then be deployed
onto the docker-swarm <https://github.com/GSA/catalog-app> (but this is
currently a rough cut at packaging CKAN with Docker - there is still ALOT
of work to be done to refactor the application to isolate
services/processes per container and more inline with http://12factor.net...
our current plan has use looking at our current production and test
environments to identify all our custom processes that tend to hide
themselves when any application that is running on a single virtual machine
along side the various services (like Solr/Postgres/Reddis/ApacheORNginx...

Our hope is to move fast but we'd also like to do so in the open and
hopefully within the existing CKAN community. Are there others out there
that would be interested in supporting a community repo for a docker-based
CKAN? I know there has been some work in the past on this (and I'm sure
there's more ongoing) - so this too could be an opportunity to consolidate?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Derek Hohls <dhohls at csir.co.za> wrote:

> Hi Ian
>
> Thanks for the info.  I see you refer to the datacats git site for issues;
> but I also see some issues that are outstanding.
>
> The specific issue I am interested in is the inclusion of CSW/pycsw into
> the datacats environment because that will be our primary source type for
> geospatial metadata.  I see there is one issue logged and one outstanding
> pull request (https://github.com/datacats/datacats/issues/301 and
> https://github.com/datacats/datacats/pull/303 ). Rather than reinvent any
> wheels; is there likely to be any movement on this in the near future
> (otherwise the only alternative seems to be to go back to a fully manual
> CKAN install process without all the benefits that Docker offers)?
>
> Derek
>
> >>> Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> 01/08/16 4:38 PM >>>
> Hi Derek,
>
> We don't have a mailing list, but feel free to use the issues on
> github for problems you run into.
>
> Installing most extensions in datacats just requires dropping the
> extension in your source directory and running "datacats install".
> Anything else you might need to do to get set up can usually be done
> with the "datacats paster" (run a paster command from the extension in
> the current directory) or "datacats shell" (open a shell inside the
> environment)
>
> Ian
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Derek Hohls <dhohls at csir.co.za> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'd like to know if this is the correct mailing list to post questions
> > around the usage of the datacats (Docker-based CKAN) software? I am
> > struggling with adapting the usual approach to CKAN extension
> installations
> > to the one used by datacats (e.g. adapting the
> > http://docs.ckan.org/projects/ckanext-spatial/en/latest/install.html ).
> >
> > If this is not the correct forum, please point me in the right direction.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Derek
> >
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