It gets messy when you want to do the same thing repeatedly - so I want
encapsulate things in to a recipe but there is no way to (easily) inject
variables into the recipe. I suspect that if I persevere with it I'll work
it out but it seems clunky currently.
Ian
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:17 AM Tobias Reinicke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Ian,
>
> Out of interest - why have you fallen out of love with it all?
>
> Toby
>
> On 20 April 2015 at 13:35, Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> For example to set up a workspace (ian) you can GET
>> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces/ian.xml and then when
>> setting up a new one POST that xm l to
>> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/workspaces
>>
>> The same follows for the other resources - I haven't yet found out how to
>> create a new grid set for GWC but I suspect that I need to change my
>> endpoint.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:07 PM Tobias Reinicke <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Ian, good to know.
>>> When you say grab the REST output - from where would I theoretically be
>>> grabbing this? The logs?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Toby
>>>
>>> On 20 April 2015 at 12:57, Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been doing something similar with Chef, though I'm falling out of
>>>> love with it. I went with the configuring with REST - once you have the
>>>> data loaded the first time you can grab the REST output and then edit as
>>>> needed and store it for upload later.
>>>>
>>>> Ian
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:53 AM Tobias Reinicke <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am working on a new project and part of it is to use Puppet for
>>>>> deploying machines, some of which are to have geoserver on them.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not that complex, basically puppet allows you to provision hosts
>>>>> with files / data / packages etc - whatever you want.
>>>>>
>>>>> When it comes to geoserver, I am just getting to a point where I need
>>>>> to basically tackle configuration. What I am doing at the moment is
>>>>> building a machine (linux) and installing the pre-reqs (tomcat etc) and
>>>>> then installing geoserver (all via aptitude). Once that is all up and
>>>>> running I need to configure it with the data and layers I want. Data isn't
>>>>> an issue - it's how the config works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently I am building up my required layers manually via the gui the
>>>>> way I want, and then take a copy of the 'workspaces' folder which I then
>>>>> want to inject into any new build of my geoserver machine. (as well as the
>>>>> data source obviously, local tiff files for now).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this something that might theoretically work?
>>>>>
>>>>> What I have found is that my workspace is created as required - as
>>>>> long as I have;
>>>>> /workspaces/default.xml
>>>>> /workspaces/[myworkspace]/namespace.xml
>>>>> /workspaces/[myworkspace]/workspace.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> But continuing down this route, and adding my layers and coverages in
>>>>> the same way doesn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm aware I could do all this with REST API commands (as well as with
>>>>> GUI) - and the REST interface is my next port of call, but I'd be
>>>>> interested in any insights to the above.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Toby
>>>>>
>>>>>
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