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CloudTAK

Facilitate ETL operations to bring non-TAK sources into a TAK Server

Screenshot of CloudTAK

Installation

Local installation can take advantage of the docker-compose workflow.

docker-compose up --build

Once the database and API service have built, the server will start on port 5000. In your webbrowser visit http://localhost:5000 to view the ETL UI

For non-aws environments, the default username & password is admin, admin. This value can be customized via the TAK_USERNAME & TAK_PASSWORD env vars

Installation outside of the docker environment is also fairly straightforward. In the ./api, perform the following

npm install
echo "CREATE DATABASE tak_ps_etl" | psql
npx knex migrate:latest
cd web/
npm install
npm run build
cd ..
npm run dev

AWS Deployment

Pre-Reqs

The ETL service assumes several pre-requisite dependencies are deployed before initial ETL deployment. The following are dependencies which need to be created:

Name Notes
coe-vpc-<name> VPC & networking to place tasks in - repo
coe-ecs-<name> ECS Cluster for API Service - repo
coe-ecr-etl ECR Repository for storing API Images - repo
coe-ecr-etl-tasks ECR Repository for storing Task Images - repo
coe-elb-access Centralized ELB Logs - repo

An AWS ACM certificate must also be generated that covers the subdomain that CloudTAK is deployed to as well as the second level wildcard. Where in the example below CloudTAK is deployed to ie: map.example.com The second level wildcard will be used for serving tiles, currently configured to be tiles.map.example.com

IE:

*.example.com
*.map.example.com

Optional Dependencies that can be deployed at any time

Name Notes
coe-media-<name> Task Definitions for Media Server Support - repo

coe-ecr-etl

Can be created using the dfpc-coe/ecr repository.

From the ecr repo:

npm install
npx deploy create etl

coe-ecr-etl-tasks

Can be created using the dfpc-coe/ecr repository.

From the ecr repo:

npm install
npx deploy create etl-tasks

S3 Bucket Contents

An S3 bucket will be created as part of the CloudFormatiom stack that contains geospatial assets related to user files, missions, CoTs, etc. The following table is an overview of the prefixes in the bucket and their purpose

Prefix Description
attachment/{sha256}/{file.ext} CoT Attachments by Data Package reported SHA
data/{data sync id}/{file.ext} CloudTAK managed Data Sync file contents
import/{UUID}/{file.ext} User Imports
profile/{email}/{file.ext} User Files

ETL Deployment

From the root directory, install the deploy dependencies

npm install

Deployment to AWS is handled via AWS Cloudformation. The template can be found in the ./cloudformation directory. The deployment itself is performed by Deploy which was installed in the previous step.

The deploy tool can be run via the following

npx deploy

To install it globally - view the deploy README

Deploy uses your existing AWS credentials. Ensure that your ~/.aws/credentials has an entry like:

[coe]
aws_access_key_id = <redacted>
aws_secret_access_key = <redacted>

Deployment can then be performed via the following:

npx deploy create <stack>
npx deploy update <stack>
npx deploy info <stack> --outputs
npx deploy info <stack> --parameters

Stacks can be created, deleted, cancelled, etc all via the deploy tool. For further information information about deploy functionality run the following for help.

npx deploy

Further help about a specific command can be obtained via something like:

npx deploy info --help