nowx/ldm repository overview

⁠ldm-dockerfile

Compiles and installs the Unidata LDM⁠, but does not configure anything except the hostname- LDM will start, but it will not do anything.

⁠Why the setup script?

I love RUN commands just like you. But, since we have to install a bunch of packages to compile software, we bloat up the image if we don't uninstall it in the same step. But since most of the heavy lifting happens between the install and the uninstall, it is cleaner and easier to read with it in a script.

Note that the setup script automagically fetches the latest version, which is then stored in the file /home/ldm/LDM_VERSION. If you want a different version, set the $LDM_VERSION variable.

⁠How do I use it?

You read the docs⁠ and configure it to do stuff! At the very least you need to regutil -s $(hostname --fqdn) /hostname (although keep in mind that does need to be a legit FQDN, not some hash thing from Docker).

Some good first steps would be:

• Get a data feed
• Add some entries to pqact.conf
• Configure scouring
• Add cron entries for log rotation, scouring, and metrics