[OSM-talk] Tile Server manual build 15.10 troubleshooting

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 04.01.2016 3:39, Joseph Reeves napisał(a):

> Qemu / KVM is pretty straightforward to get running, probably easier
> for a linux newbie than getting a tileserver built on 15.10, and
> you'll benefit from learning about virtualization under Ubuntu. You'll
> also be able to experiment with the virtual machine without messing up
> your usual work environment.
> 
> I've got a setup like this and am very happy with it.

I don't know how much slower is such virtualization and how important is 
this aspect for you, but I would definitely start with Docker 
containers, which are lightweight and allow having multiple such 
machines, which are separated from the rest and the main system. Docker 
is also available for Windows or OS X:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/

and while using it outside Linux makes virtualization necessary (which 
will be always slower than Linux native/containers), it brings other 
nice features, like having clean installation instructions in the form 
of Dockerfile (think of makefiles for compiling application code, but on 
the OS level). On Linux we have possibility of running Docker images 
based on other distributions, which is just great and makes a whole 
thing fast and versatile at the same time.

I have found some ready OSM-related Docker images here:

https://hub.docker.com/u/homme/

TileServer image from this repository is not so new (initial Dockerfile 
made 2 years ago, last successful update and build 8 months ago):

https://hub.docker.com/r/homme/openstreetmap-tiles/

but in Docker world it's easy to fork such recipe and tweak it to your 
taste. For example this fork uses newer PostgreSQL version and is based 
on newest Docker-friendly Ubuntu image:

https://hub.docker.com/r/xingfuryda/openstreetmap-tiles-docker/

It was created 4 months ago and the builds from last month produce some 
errors:

https://hub.docker.com/r/xingfuryda/openstreetmap-tiles-docker/builds/

but you can always grab the source:

https://github.com/xingfuryda/openstreetmap-tiles-docker

and fix it - or make any other modifications you like - without even 
messing with your operating system configuration!

Dockerfile instructions are rather easy to understand:

https://hub.docker.com/r/xingfuryda/openstreetmap-tiles-docker/~/dockerfile/
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/

and for me are almost self-explanatory, but it won't be hard to 
automatically convert it to a more human-friendly format. It would allow 
us to have up to date documentation for manual installation (for those 
who like the dirty job or have any issues with Docker) which is on par 
with the latest Docker image (for the rest of us, who are lazy, afraid 
of accidentally breaking their primary system and don't like the mess 
with removing stuff when not needed any more).

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