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Use Docker Container To Deploy GPlates Web Service

The GPlates team has prepared a Docker image for users to deploy the GPlates Web Service on their own servers/personal computers. Running the GPlates Web Service locally inside a Docker container is especially important in the following scenarios:

• User requires short response time and low latency.
• User has a large volume of data to process and can provide much more computational power than GPlates server.
• User has security concerns about sending their data to a remote server.
• User cannot access service via Internet or the quality of the Internet connection is very poor.

The GPlates Web Service Docker container can be downloaded from Docker Hub.

To start a GPlates Web Service server, it can be as simple as the one-line command below.

docker run -d --rm -p 18000:80 gplates/gws

Click this link to verify the service is working.

Details about the GPlates Web Service Docker image can be found at https://github.com/GPlates/gplates-web-service/tree/master/docker#readme.