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Setting up geogig in a production environment

Posted by: Admire Nyakudya | in Docker, GeoServer, PostGIS | 6 years, 4 months ago | 0 comments

GIS practitioners and developers have long been interested in versioning spatial data. Luckily the folk at LocationTech have enabled us to do so through the provision of GeoGig (formerly geogit). Moreover, Geogig can interact with GeoServer seamlessly. At Kartoza we use Docker for orchestration of our services and as such it will form the backbone of this article.

How to run a Linux GUI application on OSX using Docker

Posted by: Gavin Fleming | in Docker, QGIS | 9 years, 6 months ago | 15 comments

Ok so here is the scenario:

7 tips for making productive use of docker

Posted by: Gavin Fleming | in Docker | 9 years, 7 months ago | 4 comments
I have been using and learning docker since the early days after it was announced. I really love using docker but there are some things I just wish I had cottoned onto at the start. Here are my top 7 tips to help new users to docker avoid making the same mistakes I did.

Kartoza docker-helpers for lazy sysadmins

Posted by: Gavin Fleming | in Docker | 9 years, 10 months ago | 0 comments

Docker is really awesome but typing out all those commands can get tedious. I wanted to quickly share a small project on github I made some time back that tries to make your life easier when working with docker. The project is called docker-helpers. It is a collection of bash scripts that give you short cuts to various 'every day' docker commands. Here is a quick listing of the different commands:

Orchestrating GeoServer with Docker and Fig

Posted by: Gavin Fleming | in Docker, FOSSGIS, GeoServer, PostGIS | 9 years, 10 months ago | 3 comments

In this article I will detail how to set up a simple orchestrated system of docker containers using:

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