A Brand-New Way for Managing Data Portals

CKAN Pilot is a command-line interface (CLI) tool for CKAN. It simplifies the creation, configuration and management of CKAN projects. It removes the complexity of setting up local CKAN instances and streamlines the developer experience. With CKAN Pilot you can decrease the development time from hours to minutes!

This new approach to managing CKAN makes perfect sense — it is so convenient! Setting up local CKAN instances is a breeze, adding and configuring extensions — a delight! Updating configuration options — simple and predictable. Hot reload? Not a problem.

In a nutshell, CKAN Pilot can be used to:

Quickly initialize CKAN instances
Smoothly manage CKAN extensions
Easily change CKAN configuration
Manage a default catalog of CKAN extensions
Simplify local development
Leverage cloud-native technologies and services
Incorporate current CI/CD best practices
Modernize working with CKAN

Modern Architecture Based on Docker

CKAN itself, all of the necessary services and a bunch of workers, all reside within a Docker image,
set up through a Docker Compose.

You can run one on many CKAN instances on the same machine, each with their own set of extensions and configuration options. Extensions can be added from a catalog or any Git-based repository. There’s nothing special about configuring Solr, PostgreSQL or Redis in the containers. You can do it in the usual way of working with CKAN in a dockerized environment.

What’s special about this architecture is that it has almost everything you need to start using CKAN, without virtually any configuration.

Setting up a new local CKAN instance is as easy as running ckan-pilot init <project_dir> in your terminal of choice.