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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