Docker for Geoprocessing

I am trying to get Geoprocessing jobs to run inside Docker so that they are more portable and easier to reuse across different machines.

COVID19 and WFH

COVID19 hit so I had to get set up to work at home. I had already been using git so my code was up there.

On my home computer Murre which runs Windows 10, I needed to install

• Visual Studio Code for Windows with the extensions listed below
• Docker Desktop for Windows
• git for windows because Visual Studio Code uses it
• cygwin so I'd have bash, maybe you don't care about bash and use Powershell instead?

What else? I'll add as I think of it.

VSCode extensions that I currently have installed

• Debugger for Chrome
• Docker
• Python
• Remote Development pack (includes Remote-Containers and Remote-SSH extensions)

The story so far

The big picture is to create an elevation surface and then contours for Clatsop County from LiDAR data provided by DOGAMI.

I've created a Github project called Wildsong/geoprocessing.

Then I created another called Wildsong/lidar_downloader and got it working. This does no geoprocessing, it just grabs files from a remote server using a CSV full of URLs. Now I have data at home to work with.

Still thinking about how to organize this.