Sunday, November 10, 2013

How long it takes You ?

How long it takes You to deploy complete solution of GIS office including operating systems and software of central server providing geodatabase and web server, centrally managed 8 GIS editor's desktop computers and create three nice GIS projects on three different computers and publish them on web ?

Few days ago I have bought new laptop (Lenovo E330 with Inter i5 and 8 GB RAM).  I have installed it with Xubuntu 12.04 and encrypted LVM and made a test to accomplish this task with a help of GIS.lab (GIS.lab is an Open Source solution to create fully equipped, easy-to-use, pre-configured, centrally managed portable and unbreakable GIS LAN). 

The results where impressive:

  • installation of GIS.lab software dependencies from internet (Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant) - 4 minutes
  • downloading base Vagrant image - 5 minutes
  • GIS.lab installation ($ vagrant up ) - 20 minutes !
  • connecting my laptop to my company's LAN and booting GIS.lab on 8 computers from LAN - 7 minutes
  • creating three nice GIS projects in QGIS (data where prepared before) and publishing them on web using GIS.lab WMS Viewer - 12 minutes !
  • TOTAL: 48 minutes


Here are the results:



Do You know something which can faster ? Do You want to try it ? Any questions and comments are welcome.

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