CKAN Deployments

CKAN can be deployed in several ways, depending on your needs and resources. Here are some of the available deployments:

Docker

Docker Compose Deployment

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and managing multi-container Docker applications. This deployment is ideal if you want a quick and easy-to-configure development environment.

Ansible

Ansible Deployment

Ansible is a free software platform for configuring and managing computers. It combines multi-node deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management. This deployment is ideal if you're looking for an automated and reproducible setup.

CKAN-Official

Official CKAN Source Install

This is the official CKAN deployment, which involves installing CKAN from source. This deployment is ideal if you want to customize CKAN at a deeper level.

CKAN-Others

Other CKAN Installs

Here you'll find other ways to install CKAN that have been documented and shared by the CKAN community.

💾Custom deployments...

The docker and ansible deployments utilize a custom installation. This setup includes specific extensions for handling spatial data and for implementing the GeoDCAT-AP and INSPIRE metadata profiles. These profiles are standards for the representation of geospatial metadata.

CKAN Deployment roadmap

Information about extensions installed in the custom deployments.

Element	Description	version	Status	Remarks
Core	CKAN	2.9.11	Completed	Stable installation for version 2.9.11 (Production & Dev images) via Docker Compose based on official images). Initial configuration, basic customisation and operation guide.
Core +	Datastore	2.9.11	Completed	Stable installation (Production & Dev images) via Docker Compose.
Core +	Datapusher	0.0.19	Deprecated	Updated to xloader, an express Loader - quickly load data into DataStore.
Extension	ckanext-xloader	1.0.1	Completed	Stable installation, a replacement for DataPusher because it offers ten times the speed and more robustness
Extension	ckanext-harvest	v1.5.6	Completed	Stable installation, necessary for the implementation of the Collector (ogc_ckan)
Extension	ckanext-geoview	0.0.20	Completed	Stable installation.
Extension	ckanext-spatial	2.0.0	Completed	Stable installation, necessary for the implementation of the Collector (ogc_ckan)
Extension	ckanext-dcat	1.1.0	Completed	Stable installation, include DCAT-AP 2.1 profile compatible with GeoDCAT-AP.
Extension	ckanext-scheming	3.0.0	WIP	Stable installation. Customised ckanext schema[^5] based on the Spanish Metadata Core with the aim of completing the minimum metadata elements included in the current datasets in accordance with GeoDCAT-AP and INSPIRE.
Extension	ckanext-resourcedictionary	v1.0.1	Completed	Stable installation. This extension extends the default CKAN Data Dictionary functionality by adding possibility to create data dictionary before actual data is uploaded to datastore.
Extension	ckanext-pages	0.5.2	Completed	Stable installation. This extension gives you an easy way to add simple pages to CKAN.
Extension	ckanext-pdfview	0.0.8	Completed	Stable installation. This extension provides a view plugin for PDF files using an html object tag.
Extension	ckanext-schemingdcat	2.0.0	Completed	Stable installation for version 1.2.0, provides functions and templates specifically designed to extend ckanext-scheming and includes DCAT enhancements to adapt CKAN schema to GeoDCAT-AP and several improvements such as multilang for datasets, orgs and groups or new theming.
Extension	ckanext-fluent	1.0.1	Completed	Multilingual fields for CKAN, stable version.
Software	ckan-pycsw	main	Completed	Stable installation. PyCSW Endpoint of Open Data Portal with docker compose config. Harvest the CKAN catalogue in a CSW endpoint based on existing spatial datasets in the open data portal.