ArcGIS Enterprise: DevOpsPhilip Heede

What is DevOps

• DevOps (a portmanteau of "development" and "operations") is a software development method that stresses

communication, collaboration (information sharing and web service usage), integration,

automation and measurement cooperation between software developers and other information-

technology (IT) professionals. DevOps acknowledges the interdependence of

software development and IT operations.

-Wikipedia

Agenda

• Deployment automation

• Scripting administrative workflows

• Scripting GIS workflows

Agenda

• Deployment automation

- Chef

• Scripting administrative workflows

- ArcGIS API for Python

• Scripting GIS workflows

- ArcGIS API for Python

Agenda

• Deployment automation

- Chef

• Scripting administrative workflows

- ArcGIS API for Python

• Scripting GIS workflows

- ArcGIS API for Python

Who I imagine you are

• ArcGIS Enterprise (ArcGIS Server and Portal for ArcGIS) administrators with a

programming interest or background

• Maybe you do Python scripting already because of a GIS analyst background

• Maybe you’ve done .NET development with C# in the past

• Maybe you’re already automating things using Scala, Ruby, …

Deployment automation

Deployment automation - Why

Desktop Web Device

Server Online Content

and Services

Portal

Chef

• One of the fast growing IT automation platforms

• Supported on Windows and Linux

• Open source

Chef

• Recipes

• Cookbook

• Attributes, resources, providers……

• Chef-server, client, solo

• Test Kitchen

Chef – Where to get it

Deployment automation - Why

Desktop Web Device

Server Online Content

and Services

Portal

Deployment automation – lots of options depending on environment

• On-premises (physical or virtual machines)

- Chef

• Public cloud

- AWS: use CloudFormation templates

- Azure: use Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure

• Other cloud environments

- Chef

• Coming soon: ArcGIS Enterprise Builder

- Planned for ArcGIS 10.5.1 release later this year

Scripting administrative workflows

ArcGIS API for Python

• Python API for your Web GIS

- ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online

• Powerful, modern, and easy to use

- Pythonic!

• Built on top of ArcGIS REST APIs

Spatial Analysis & Geoprocessing

Big Data GeoAnalytics

Interactive Exploration

GIS Analysis

ContentPublishing

Desktop Apps

Org administration

Automate management

• Populate portal with users, groups

• Clone portals

• Re-assign user content

• Perform comprehensive content search

• Determine item relationship

• Create reports of users, their items

Automate content creation

• Automate content publishing during off peak hours

• Update tiles and features from a known database

• Replicate development environment content to production

• Inspect and update items with broken service links

ArcGIS API for Python

ArcGIS API for Python – How to install it

Distributed via CondaSimplifies installs & updatesInstalls dependenciesAvoids conflicts

Install steps:Download Anaconda

conda install –c esri arcgis

orInstall from ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS API for Python

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