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Deployment and Licensing of WebApi running in Containers and Linux OS

#1

We are rewriting our map based application and updating our envrionments to run in Docker and Kubernetes. Do you have a deployement guide for deploying ThinkGeo v12 WebApi applications that run in containers like Docker and orchestrated by Kubernetes?

Our environment will…

  • Have multiple containers and/or servers spun up on demand
  • Be running in Linux/Ubuntu

Can you point me to existing documentation or provide information to the following questions:

  • Is a separate license required for each container?
  • How can the production (or dev/test) server license be “installed” in these containers as theyare created on demand?
  • Is there an alternative to ThinkGeo.ProductCenter.exe for setting up licenses in non-windows environments?
  • Are there any other considerations for running ThinkGeo v12 in a Linux environment and using containers?
#2

Hey @Greg2,

There is actually a Linux/Mac version of Product Center v12 that is a command line interface that you can use in your docker container’s startup script to register and activate that container. You can download it from https://helpdesk.thinkgeo.com/Home and just include it in your container’s manifest. You should only need to run the /activateproductiondeploymentlicense command to activate the container:

$ ThinkGeo.ProductCenter.CLI.exe /activateproductiondeploymentlicense /username:[name] /password:[password]

With [name] and [password] being your ThinkGeo login. You’ll need to do this for each container, but you have unlimited activations.

Oh, and for your pre production servers, you might want to use the /activatetestdeploymentlicense. There’s not much of a difference between the two. The test license just displays a watermark on the map so that you can have visual feedback that you are in the pre production environment.

Hope that helps answer your questions!

Thanks,
Kyle

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Modernizing our static map image service
#3

Thanks for the quick reply. This is very helpful!

#4

Hey @Greg2,

You’re welcome! Let me know if you have any issues setting it up and we’ll work through it.

Thanks,
Kyle