My Talk at the SF Geomeetup meeting. I didin't get through all the slides but they are here.

1. Platform as a Service
(OpenShift PaaS) for
Geospatial Applications
Steven Citron-Pousty
PaaS Dust Spreader, Red Hat
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2. Agenda
• Learn a little about Cloud and PaaS
• See some spatial running on PaaS
• Let you ask questions
• Set you up to ROCK!
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3. Assumptions
1) You can use the command line
2) You know some spatial
3) You prefer to write code and apps over managing
servers
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4. What is OpenShift?
Red Hat's free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for
applications in the cloud.
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Dalbera on Flickr

6. Kind of like Amazon, right? Nope.
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7. What’s supported?
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8. Cook24v on Flickr
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10. Looks great, but what’s the catch?
• OpenShift is free-as-in-beer & free-as-in-freedom
• Three gears – 512mb RAM, 1 gig Disk (always free)
• Need more resources, just ask!
• The Catch is we are in developer preview right now
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11. Crsan on flickr
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12. Let’s do some spatial
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13. What do you need first – A spatial datastore
Let’s start with PostGIS
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14. 14 New Jersey Bird on flickr

15. Demo (PostGIS) *-domain.rhcloud.com
1. Sign up
2. Install the command line tools (you can use the web for
some but not all)
3. Create a domain
4. Create a Java application (will put GeoServer here
later)
5. Add PostgreSQL cartridge
6. Make changes in your git repo this once
7. SCP and SSH into your “server” to
1. Create postgis DB
2. load the data
3. Make a query or two
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16. But since we all like to be cutting edge – time for
NoSQL with MongoDB!
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17. Brief Facts about MongoDB
1) Document Store – stores in JSON (really BSON)
2) FOSS – written by the people at 10gen
3) Has very limited spatial
4) Good Enough for FourSquare, Craig’s List, and
OpenShift Service
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18. Demo (MongoDB)
1. Create a Java application
2. Add MongoDB cartridge
3. SCP and SSH into your “server” to
1. load the data
2. Make a query or two
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19. But what if you don’t want to write your own code
Time to deploy GeoServer and hook it up to PostGIS
Demo
4)Download the war file
5)Insert the jboss file
6)Add to local git repo
7)Deploy to OpenShift
8)Configure
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20. Conclusion
1. All the spatial parts are ready to use today
2. OpenShift makes life great for devs
3. The tools are easy to use
4. Almost anything you need on a server
5. Did I mention – Free (as in Beer and FREEDOM!)
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21. Password: storekbuilding
Aps:
CodeForAmerica-Guest
CodeForAmerica-Guest 5Ghz
Tamara.colby@gmail.com
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