MapProxy for Docker with MapServer support

This image extends the "justb4" Docker Image for MapProxy with MapServer binaries (no MapServer CGI). Reason is that MapProxy supports directly calling the MapServer executable mapserv, i.s.o. of accessing MapServer via OGC WMS. In my experience this is a huge performance gain in both MapProxy tile-seeding and tile-services.

Image Tags and Versions

Convention: <mapproxy-version>-<mapserver-version-<buildnr>, e.g. justb4/mapproxy-mapserver:1.12.0-7.2.2-1.

How to setup

The setup is similar as in the "justb4" Docker Image for MapProxy README. Only some extra config is needed for MapServer. Below an example for a docker-compose file.

services:

  mapproxy:

    image: justb4/mapproxy-mapserver:latest

    container_name: mapproxy

    environment:
      - MAPPROXY_PROCESSES=4
      - MAPPROXY_THREADS=2
      - UWSGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS=--disable-logging --max-worker-lifetime 30
      - DEBUG=0
      - MAPSERVER_CATCH_SEGV=1

    ports:
      - "8086:8080"

    volumes:
      - ./config/mapproxy:/mapproxy
      - ./config/mapserver:/mapserver
      - /var/mapproxy_cache:/mapproxy_cache

The in your MapProxy config YAML you can refer to the MapServer binary. First in the sources: section where you would normally configure backend WMS-es:

sources:
.
.

  labels_wms:
    type: mapserver
    req:
      map: /mapserver/mymapfile.map
      layers: labels
      format: image/png
      transparent: true
    coverage:
      bbox: [-20000.0,275000.0,300000.0,650000.0]
      srs: 'EPSG:28992'

And the under globals indicate the location of the MapServer executable:

globals:
  cache:
    base_dir: '/mapproxy_cache'

.
.
.
  # for calling MapServer directly
  mapserver:
    binary: /usr/bin/mapserv
    working_dir: /tmp

The Mapproxy Documention shows some alternative config options.