[ckan-dev] Docker (Was ckanext-spatial deploy to production environment (datacats))

Fri Jun 3 11:18:30 UTC 2016

Hi John,

On 2 June 2016 at 15:28, John Jediny - XAAB <john.jediny at gsa.gov> wrote:

> It seems there have been a few attempts now at creating a docker based
> CKAN...
>
>    1. Datacat being the best example - but I've heard the core
>    contributors have more or less moved on/away, can anyone confirm status?
>    While we assessed the use of Datacats, one of the issues we foresaw was
>    that it was using python wrappers for the management of docker on a single
>    host (which is completely valid for most use-cases). But we needed to be
>    able to scale out across multiple hosts to pool those resources to truly
>    get a benefit in using docker. This however comes with its own issues as
>    managing shared volumes, queues, ips, port mapping, cron jobs, etc, etc are
>    "Platform" problems that Docker alone doesn't solve (hence the python
>    management of Datacats)...
>
> Deployment of multiple CKAN instances to a cloud it's a use case that
probably isn't relevant to most users of CKAN. I know that Viderum and Link
Digital have worked on their own cloud platforms for CKAN so perhaps they
can share more details about their own experiences. These are of course
CKAN vendors deploying multiple sites, so again not the most common use
case.

>
>    1. I know the docker repo on the CKAN github org has been deprecated,
>    but there was recently a minimal version added within the main repo -
>    https://github.com/ckan/ckan/tree/master/contrib/docker. Can anyone
>    comment on  this (is it only intended for dev/test)? If there are those
>    interested we at Data.gov would like to contribute/collaborate on our
>    docker CKAN work with the community. Any ideas/suggests how best to
>    collaborate on this moving forward would be appreciated:
>    - https://hub.docker.com/u/datagov/
>       - https://github.com/GSA/catalog-app
>
>
Ian will know more about this but my understanding is that the Docker and
Docker cloud files on the main repo are being updated and that they should
form the basis for ongoing Docker support in CKAN. It would be awesome if
you could contribute any feedback or patches you have for these!

See

https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/3029
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/3075

Best,

Adrià
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