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Overview

Flux is a feature of the Earthmover platform which makes it easy to query your Arraylake data and integrate it into downstream applications via standards-compliant API endpoints. This page describes the administration and management aspects of Flux. For details on the APIs and protocols, see the following pages.

  • Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) - allows you to extract points or areas of interest from gridded datasets and return results in JSON, CSV, or NetCDF. Ideal for simple timeseries extraction.
  • Web Map Service (WMS) - dynamically serves map tiles suitable for use in web-based slippy maps or GIS applications.
  • DAP2 - query datasets using the widely supported DAP2 protocol.
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Flux is currently in private beta. Features and capabilities may change with time.

In the following

  • {org} is the name of your Arraylake organization
  • {repo} is the name of the Repo
  • {branch|commit|tag} is the branch, commit, or tag within the Repo to use to fulfill the request
  • {path/to/group} is the path to group within the Repo that contains an xarray Dataset
  • {protocol} is one of the supported protocols (e.g. edr, wms, dap).

Turning on a service​

Flux is based on the concept of services. No services are enabled automatically; they must be explicitly turned on before use:

al compute enable {org} {protocol}

By default the service is only accessible to those with access to the Repo being queried. Provide the --is-public flag to open access to all users without authentication. For more information, see the Authentication page

Turning off a service​

al compute disable {org} {service_name}

Choose the appropriate service_name from the output of al compute list {org}.

Status of Services​

al compute list {org}