{"id":23747,"date":"2021-04-07T04:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/esri-brings-its-flagship-arcgis-platform-to-kubernetes.html"},"modified":"2021-04-07T04:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T04:59:37","slug":"esri-brings-its-flagship-arcgis-platform-to-kubernetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/esri-brings-its-flagship-arcgis-platform-to-kubernetes.html","title":{"rendered":"Esri brings its flagship ArcGIS platform to Kubernetes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esri<\/a>, the geographic information system (GIS), mapping and spatial analytics company, is hosting its (virtual) developer summit today<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, it is making a couple of major announcements at the event that range from a new design system and improved JavaScript APIs to support for running ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a> in containers on Kubernetes.<\/p>\n

The Kubernetes project was a major undertaking for the company, Esri<\/span> Product Managers Trevor Seaton and Philip Heede told me. Traditionally, like so many similar products, ArcGIS was architected to be installed on physical boxes, virtual machines or cloud-hosted VMs. And while it doesn\u2019t really matter to end-users where the software runs, containerizing the application means that it is far easier for businesses to scale their systems up or down as needed.<\/p>\n

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Esri ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes deployment. Image Credits:<\/strong> Esri<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of customers \u2014 especially some of the larger customers \u2014 that run very complex questions,\u201d Seaton explained. \u201cAnd sometimes it\u2019s unpredictable. They might be responding to seasonal events or business events or economic events, and they need to understand not only what\u2019s going on in the world, but also respond to their many users from outside the organization coming in and asking questions of the systems that they put in place using ArcGIS. And that unpredictable demand is one of the key benefits of Kubernetes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Deploying Esri ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes. Image Credits:<\/strong> Esri<\/p>\n

The team could have chosen to go the easy route and put a wrapper around its existing tools to containerize them and call it a day, but as Seaton noted, Esri used this opportunity to re-architect its tools and break it down into microservices.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s taken us a while because we took three or four big applications that together make up [ArcGIS] Enterprise,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we broke those apart into a much larger set of microservices. That allows us to containerize specific services and add a lot of high availability and resilience to the system without adding a lot of complexity for the administrators \u2014 in fact, we\u2019re reducing the complexity as we do that and all of that gets installed in one single deployment script.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Kubernetes simplifies a lot of the management experience, a lot of companies that use ArcGIS aren\u2019t yet familiar with it. And as Seaton and Heede noted, the company isn\u2019t forcing anyone onto this platform. It will continue to support Windows and Linux just like before. Heede also stressed that it\u2019s still unusual \u2014 especially in this industry \u2014 to see a complex, fully integrated system like ArcGIS being delivered in the form of microservices and multiple containers that its customers then run on their own infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> Esri<\/p>\n

In addition to the Kubernetes announcement, Esri also today announced new JavaScript APIs that make it easier for developers to create applications that bring together Esri\u2019s server-side technology and the scalability of doing much of the analysis on the client-side. Back in the day, Esri would support tools like Microsoft\u2019s Silverlight and Adobe\/Apache Flex<\/a> for building rich web-based applications. \u201cNow, we\u2019re really focusing on a single web development technology and the toolset around that,\u201d Esri product manager Julie Powell told me.<\/p>\n

A bit later this month, Esri also plans to launch its new design system to make it easier and faster for developers to create clean and consistent user interfaces. This design system will launch April 22, but the company already provided a bit of a teaser today. As Powell noted, the challenge for Esri is that its design system has to help the company\u2019s partners put their own style and branding on top of the maps and data they get from the ArcGIS ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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