The Docker demon can use operating-system-level virtualization or a virtual machine. This helps enable flexibility and portability.
The software components running within containers are easy to setup and tear down individually. To simplify the related installation process, openstreetmap-carto comes with Docker files and documentation, which allow to build the image through simple commands.ĭocker allows packaging applications and dependencies in virtual containers that can run on a host server without altering it permanently. Kosmtik also includes node versions of further software like Mapnik and Carto and at the moment it supports Ubuntu Linux. Kosmtik is a node module needing a list of prerequisite software like PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Python, osm2pgsql and Node.js itself. The suggested tool to support the autohoring of OpenStreetMap stylesheets developed in CartoCSS is Kosmtik, a software to produce, browse and verify raster tile maps based on pre-processors like CartoCSS and rendered through Mapnik.
