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Maps
This page describes the technical aspects of deploying Maps service on Wikimedia Foundation infrastructure.
Intro
The maps service consists of Kartotherian - a nodejs service to serve map tiles, Tilerator - a non-public service to prepare vector tiles (data blobs) from OSM database into Cassandra storage, and TileratorUI - an interface to manage Tilerator jobs. There are four servers in the maps
group: maps-test200{1,2,3,4}.codfw.wmnet
that run Kartotherian (port 6533, NCPU instances), Tilerator (port 6534, half of NCPU instance), TileratorUI (port 6535, 1 instance). Also, there are two Varnish servers in the cache_maps
group: cp104{3,4}.eqiad.wmnet
.
Monitoring
- Usage dashboard
- Usage - varnish
- Kartotherian - Grafana
- Kartotherian - Logstash
- Maps Cassandra - Logstash
- Tilerator - Grafana
- Tilerator - Logstash
- Ganglia - Maps Varnish cluster (eqiad)
- Ganglia - Maps cluster (codfw)
- Free disk space
Importing database
maps2001 is actually not the best server for this - we should switch it around with maps2002, as it has 12 cores and 96GB RAM.
- From http://planet.osm.org/pbf/ - find the file with the latest available date, but do NOT use "latest", as that might change at any moment.
- curl -x webproxy.eqiad.wmnet:8080 -O http://planet.osm.org/pbf/planet-151214.osm.pbf.md5
- curl -x webproxy.eqiad.wmnet:8080 -O http://planet.osm.org/pbf/planet-151214.osm.pbf
- md5sum -c planet-151214.osm.pbf.md5
- PGPASSWORD="$(< ~/osmimporter_pass)" osm2pgsql --create --slim --flat-nodes nodes.bin -C 40000 --number-processes 8 --hstore planet-151214.osm.pbf -H maps-test2001 -U osmimporter -d gis
- additional steps to import shapes and create some indexes / functions / ... are documented in Kartotherian sources.
Notes
- Tables are created by osm2pgsql, no need for an initial DDL script.
Kartotherian
Kartotherian servers map tiles by getting vector data from Cassandra, applying the style to it, and returning raster images. It is also capable of serving a "static image" - a map with a given width/height/scaling/zoom, and can server vector tiles directly for on-the-client rendering (WebGL maps).
To see the tiles without Varnish cache, connect to Kartotherian using an ssh tunnel, e.g. ssh -L 6533:localhost:6533 maps-test2001.codfw.wmnet
and browse to http://localhost:6533
Tilerator
Tilerator is a backend vector tile pre-generation service that picks up jobs from a Redis job que, copying tiles from a Postgres DB, using sql queries into vector tiles stored in Cassandra. Postgres DBs are set up on each of the maps hosts, one master and 3 slaves. Technically, Tilerator is not even a generator, but rather a "batch copying" service, which takes tiles from one configured source (e.g. a tile generator from SQL), and puts it into another source (e.g. Cassandra tile store).
TileratorUI
TileratorUI is used to add jobs to the Tilerator job queue. Actually, TileratorUI is the same code as Tilerator, but started with a different configuration. Connect to TileratorUI using an ssh tunnel, e.g. ssh -L 6535:localhost:6535 maps-test2001.codfw.wmnet
and navigating to http://localhost:6535. There, you can view any style (use set style to change it), or to schedule a job by setting all relevant fields and Control+Clicking the tile you want to schedule.
See full Tilerator documentation for all commands & parameters.
Dynamic Tile Sources
Cassandra
To create a new Cassandra data source, post something like this to the /sources as a text body. Default table name is tiles
. If table or keyspace is not there, you have to use createIfMissing
parameter.
v2a:
uri: cassandra://
params:
keyspace: v2
table: tiles2a
cp: [maps-test2001.codfw.wmnet, maps-test2002.codfw.wmnet, maps-test2003.codfw.wmnet, maps-test2004.codfw.wmnet]
username: {var: cassandra-user}
password: {var: cassandra-pswd}
# repfactor: 4
# durablewrite: 0
# createIfMissing: true
Dynamic Layer Generator
To generate just a few layers from database, create a layer filter and a layer mixer:
gentmp:
uri: bridge://
xml:
npm: ["osm-bright-source", "data.xml"]
xmlSetDataSource:
if:
dbname: gis
host: ""
type: postgis
set:
host: localhost
user: {var: osmdb-user}
password: {var: osmdb-pswd}
xmlLayers: [admin, road]
mixtmp:
uri: layermixer://
params:
sources: [{ref: v2}, {ref: gentmp}]
Once set, POST a job to copy mixtmp
into the storage v2
e.g.
src=mixtmp dst=v2 baseZoom=0 fromZoom=5 beforeZoom=6 parts=10
Generating Tiles
Generate all tiles for zooms 0..7
, using generator gen
, saving into v3
everything including the solid tiles, up to 4 jobs per zoom.
src=gen dst=v3 parts=4 baseZoom=0 fromZoom=0 beforeZoom=8 saveSolid=1
Generated tiles only if they already exist in v2
source, and save them into v3
, on zooms 8..15
, 60 jobs per zoom.
src=gen dst=v3 parts=60 baseZoom=0 fromZoom=8 beforeZoom=16 sourceId=v2
Bulk Copying
The fastest way to copy a large number of tiles from one source to another is to use a large number of parts and specify saveSolid=true
(skips solid tile detection). E.g. to copy all z16 tiles from v2 to v3, use
src=v2 dst=v3 zoom=16 parts=60 saveSolid=true
Postgres
- Clear the Postgres data directory and init the database from backup (replace
maps2001.codfw.wmnet
by the postgres master):
rm -rf /srv/postgresql/9.4/main/* && sudo -u postgres pg_basebackup -X stream -D /srv/postgresql/9.4/main/ -h maps2001.codfw.wmnet -U replication -W
Puppetization and Automation
Prerequisites
- passwords and postgres replication configuration is set in Ops private repo (
root@palladium:~/private/hieradata/role/(codfw|eqiad)/maps/server.yaml
) - other configuration in
puppet/hieradata/role/(codfw|common|eqiad)/maps/*.yaml
cassandra::rack
is defined inpuppet/hieradata/maps*.yaml
- the
maps::server, maps::master
roles are associated to the maps master node (site.pp) - the
maps::server, maps::slave
roles are associated to the maps slaves node (site.pp)
Manual steps
- To initialize the first Cassandra node, we need to add the local node to the list of seeds by manually editing
/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
and restarting cassandra:
seed_provider:
# Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points.
# Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn
# the topology of the ring. You must change this if you are running
# multiple nodes!
- class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
parameters:
# seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.
# Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"
# Omit own host name / IP in multi-node clusters (see
# https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91617).
- seeds: 10.64.16.42,10.64.32.117,10.64.48.154 # '''add local node here to initialize the first Cassandra node'''
- change the cassandra super user password to match the one configured in private repo using cqlsh:
cqlsh <maps1001.eqiad.wmnet> -u cassandra ALTER USER cassandra WITH PASSWORD '<password>';
- Setup of user access / rights for cassandra
cat /usr/local/bin/maps-grants.cql | cqlsh <maps1001.eqiad.wmnet> -u cassandra
- Initial data load of OSM into postgresql is done by running
/usr/local/bin/osm-initial-import
on the postgresql master node.
osm-initial-import \
-d <date_of_import> \
-p <password_file> \
-s <state_file_url> \
-x webproxy.eqiad.wmnet:8080
- date_of_import: find the latest dump at https://planet.osm.org/pbf/. Example:
160530
. - password_file: A file containing the postgresql password of the osmimporter user.
- state_file_url: The URL to the state file corresponding to the dump, find the correct one at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/ (the state file must be older than the dump). Example:
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/replication/day/000/001/355.state.txt
.
- date_of_import: find the latest dump at https://planet.osm.org/pbf/. Example:
- If the postgresql master already has data, the slave initialization will timeout in puppet. It then needs to be run manually:
service postgresql@9.4-main stop
rm -rf /srv/postgresql/9.4/main
mkdir /srv/postgresql/9.4/main
chown postgres: /srv/postgresql/9.4/main/
chmod 700 /srv/postgresql/9.4/main/
sudo -u postgres pg_basebackup \
--xlog-method=stream \
--pgdata=/srv/postgresql/9.4/main/ \
--host='''<postgres_master>''' \
--username=replication \
--write-recovery-conf \
--password
service postgresql@9.4-main start
- Initial creation of cassandra keyspace: To prevent accidental modification of schema, Tilerator source configuration does not allow to create schema by default. The sources file used by tilerator / kartotherian is configured in
/etc/(kartotherian|tilerator|tileratorui)/config.yaml
, look for thesources:
key. This is a reference to a sources file in the kartotherian / tilerator source directory. For example/srv/deployment/tilerator/deploy/src/sources.prod.yaml
.
The easiest way to create a new keyspace is to run Tilerator with a custom sources file, which instructs tilerator to create the missing keyspace. For example, create a temporary file, e.g. /home/yurik/my-source-file
with the following configuration:
v5:
uri: cassandra://
params:
keyspace: v5
cp: {var: cassandra-servers}
username: {var: cassandra-user}
password: {var: cassandra-pswd}
# These parameters are only used if keyspace needs to be created:
repfactor: 4
durablewrite: 0
createIfMissing: true
And run this bash script:
node /srv/deployment/tilerator/deploy/src/scripts/tileshell.js \
# Use TileratorUI configuration (including password variables)
--config /etc/tileratorui/config.yaml \
# Use this sources file instead of the one in the config file
--source /home/yurik/my-source-file
- On existing server, record all existing tiles as a list of tile indexes
node /srv/deployment/tilerator/deploy/src/scripts/tileshell.js \
--config /etc/tileratorui/config.yaml \
# List all tiles in the "v5" source
-j.generatorId v5 \
# Which zoom to enumerate
-j.zoom 14 \
# File to write indexes to
--dumptiles /home/yurik/all-tiles-14.txt \
# Instead of dumping indexes in "zoom/x/y" format, write one number indexes (0..4^zoom-1)
--dumprawidx \
# If dumptiles file already exists, override it
--dumpoverride
- Instead of generating the entire zoom level, you may want to generate just the tiles in a list
node /srv/deployment/tilerator/deploy/src/scripts/tileshell.js \
--config /etc/tileratorui/config.yaml \
# List of tile indexes, unique and sorted, one per line.
# Indexes can be 0..4^zoom-1
-j.filepath /home/yurik/all-tiles-14.txt \
# All tile indexes in the file belong to zoom 14
# Without this parameter, the file must contain zoom/x/y triplets
-j.fileZoomOverride 14 \
# generate zoom levels 10 <= zoom < 16
-j.fromZoom 10 -j.beforeZoom 16 \
# Copy tiles from "gen" source to "v3" source
-j.generatorId gen -j.storageId v3 \
# If tile already exists in "v3", but "gen" produces an empty tile, delete it in v3
-j.deleteEmpty