The geOrchestra SDI project report outlines its progress and enhancements since the last update, including the upgrade of core service providers like GeoServer and GeoNetwork. New features include deployment automation via Ansible, Docker integration for production, and improvements in user interface and functionalities across modules. The report also highlights the active community involvement and the company's ongoing efforts to enhance existing services and incorporate more industry-specific modules.

1. geOrchestra SDI
Project Status Report
François Van Der Biest
#FOSS4G2016
2016-08-25

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About ...
Camptocamp
○ Geo, Business, IT
○ 3 countries
○ 50+ employees
○ R&D, Support, Training
○ @camptocamp
Me
○ Geospatial Engineer
○ geOrchestra PSC
○ Father of 3
○ Chambéry, France
○ OSM contributor
○ @fvanderbiest

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SDI ?

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Spatial Data Infrastructure
Services
(OGC + REST)
Client ClientClientClient
Core
Modules

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Part I
geOrchestra ?

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https://github.com/georchestra/georchestra
An OpenSource project ...

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https://www.openhub.net/p/georchestra

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https://sdi.georchestra.org/mapfishapp/map/2d173366676bf584e0011c45e423c9dd
Many production instances ...

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A large, diverse and active community

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What's in the core ?
From a client-side POV,
it's the OGC servers*:
■ GeoServer – WMS, WFS(-T), WCS, WPS
■ GeoWebCache – WMTS, TMS, WMS-C
■ GeoNetwork – CSW
* you know, these things for INSPIRE ...

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From a software architect POV,
it's the security-proxy application:
■ It handles the user session
■ It routes requests to modules
■ It optionally logs requests

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What are the modules ?
For the end-user:
■ Metadata catalog (GeoNetwork)
■ Several viewers
■ Simple – « an easy-to-use & responsive viewer »
■ Intermediate – « handles multiple layers in a tree »
■ Advanced – « a feature-packed OGC viewer &
editor »
■ Extractor – « OGC services in, Geo Files out »
■ Simple catalog – « a simple CSW client »

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For the administrators:
■ Console
Manages users, groups & roles
■ Analytics
Displays stats on OGC Services usage

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Why would I choose
geOrchestra ?
■ Single Sign On for all your services
■ Easy-to-use web-based tools to manage users
■ Plenty of modules and extensions (GeoFence!)
■ Adding new modules is really easy
■ Streamlined installation process

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Part II

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What happened to
geOrchestra since Seoul ?

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We focused on :
■ Generic artifacts (.deb, .war, ...)
■ Deployment automation (Ansible)
■ Docker in production
We also upgraded our core service providers:
■ GeoServer from 2.5.x to 2.8.x
■ GeoFence from 2.x to 3.x
■ GeoNetwork from 2.x to 3.x

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GeoServer 2.5 → 2.8
So many improvements … but to name a few :
■ Performance
■ I18n
■ WPS production-ready
■ Styling & rendering improvements (color blending …)
Major bugfix :
■ WMS 1.3.0 failed to serve rasters in their native projection

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GeoFence 2 → 3
■ No more separate UI : integrated in GeoServer
■ Easier to reorder rules
■ Rules for delegated workspace admin

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GeoNetwork 2 → 3
Main improvements:
■ User Interface
■ Modern technologies
■ Better MD editor (incl. suggestions)
■ MD validation tool
■ Integrated viewer

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Generic Artifacts
■ Previously: we were building tainted wars
■ Now, if the georchestra.datadir system property is
defined (JAVA_OPTS), each webapp reads its config
from the « data dir » location + module name
■ Considering the number of modules, this was a
HUGE work !
■ As a result, we distribute a template « data dir » :
https://github.com/georchestra/datadir/
■ Debian packages contain the generic WAR +
associated datadir files

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Deployment automation
Ansible recipe: https://github.com/georchestra/ansible
geOrchestra VM cookbook:
■ sudo apt-get install vagrant virtualbox ansible
■ git clone https://github.com/georchestra/ansible.git
■ cd ansible
■ vagrant up

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How to generate Docker images?
■ Previous attempt: Dockerfile pulls generic webapp from
Continuous Integration
■ More interesting: docker images built directly from the
source code, using docker-maven-plugin by Spotify
mvn clean package docker:build -Pdocker proxy
→ It allows us to simultaneously address the dev + prod usecase

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So, what are the possibilities right now
to install geOrchestra ?

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Docker in production
■ Source code on public repo
■ Config on private repo
■ Internal CI (jenkins) builds* from source & config
■ Images are pushed to a private docker hub repo
■ Rancher pulls images* on production instances
■ Production instances on a public cloud provider
(OVH)
* still a manual step

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Did I mention Rancher ?

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Rancher may handle several environments

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In each environment, 1+ hosts are registered

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Rancher offers many « stacks »
(docker compositions)

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… that we pick & configure

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The geOrchestra stack as a graph

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What we're up to ?
■ As a company :
○ Migrating customer productions to Docker
○ Taking advantage of the ELK + Prometheus/Grafana stacks
○ Investigating HA / HP with Docker and Rancher
■ As a community-driven project:
○ Trying to have a proper CLA
○ We had roles, now we're adding groups
○ Defining a new, responsive, advanced viewer
○ More industry-specific modules (eg : cadastre ...)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hytam/24566832215

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Thanks !
Links
■ This presentation https://goo.gl/lN736Q
■ Website http://www.georchestra.org/
■ Github https://github.com/georchestra/georchestra
■ Demo https://sdi.georchestra.org/
Contacts
■ Email psc@georchestra.org
■ Twitter @georchestra