New Docker images for GRASS GIS
Moving GRASS GIS Docker Images to the OSGeo Repository
In the field of open source software development and deployment, the accessibility and maintenance of resources is of paramount importance. To this end, there has been a major change in the repository structure for the GRASS GIS Docker images.
In the past years, these Docker images have been maintained and hosted under the mundialis organisation’s repository. The company mundialis has played a crucial role in providing and maintaining these images, ensuring their availability and stability for the wider GIS community. The GRASS GIS development community extends its sincere appreciation to mundialis for their technical expertise and consistent support over the years.
In a strategic move, the GRASS GIS Docker images have now been shifted to the OSGeo organisation’s repository on Docker Hub. They can be accessed under OSGeo GRASS GIS on Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/r/osgeo/grass-gis/
This migration is not just a change of repository location. The move to the OSGeo repository has been accompanied by a systematic clean-up and reorganisation of the tags associated with the GRASS GIS Docker images. This restructuring is intended to improve clarity, streamline versioning and optimise the user experience when selecting appropriate image tags for deployment.
Migrating to the new structure
Now there are four different types of tags, while {{ os }} can be replaced
with “alpine”, “debian” or “ubuntu” (and for more recent versions also with
“ubuntu_wxgui”):
latestfor latest release (at this time 8.3) and with ubuntu operating systemcurrent-{{ os }}for current releasebranch (at this time 8.3), e.gcurrent-ubuntu{{ branch }}-{{ os }}for all configured branches, e.g.releasebranch_8_3-alpine,main-debian{{ tag }}-{{ os }}for all published releases. e.g.8.3.0-alpine
While naming of branches and tags is still the same, it adds current-{{ os }}
and abandons deprecated naming style latest-{{ os }} and stable-{{ os }}.
Also content of latest tag was changed from main branch to latest release.
If mundialis/grass-py3-pdal:latest-{{ os }} was used containing the latest
development version, it should now be replaced with osgeo/grass-gis:main-{{ os }}.
For mundialis/grass-py3-pdal:stable-{{ os }} (which was formerly build upon
releasebranch_7_8) a switch to the current stable releasebranch
osgeo/grass-gis:current-{{ os }} is recommended or the usage of a specific
releasebranch releasebranch_8_3-{{ os }}. Old GRASS GIS Docker images with
version 7.8 can still be found at mundialis/grass-py3-pdal.
In summary, as we moved the repository from mundialis to the OSGeo organisation, we took the opportunity to clean up the Docker tags.
Related docker build configuration changes can be found here:
Carmen Tawalika (mundialis), Markus Neteler and The GRASS Dev Team