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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