This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Enterprise (October 30, 2019)
Welcome back to This Week's Picks – ArcGIS Enterprise! This week we're going to focus on some content that'll make your life even easier with ArcGIS Enterprise. Here are the questions we'll be answering:
1. How do I deploy ArcGIS Enterprise in AWS? It seems rather intimidating.
2. Switching services to use the shared instance pool, simply with Python.
3. I need to make sure all feature classes in my enterprise geodatabase are available as feature layers for my users. Is there an easy way to make sure this happens?
1. How do I deploy ArcGIS Enterprise in AWS? It seems rather intimidating.
Deploying your first ArcGIS Enterprise instance in Amazon Web Services (AWS) may sound intimidating but it doesn't have to be. Using the ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for AWS provides an interface for you to deploy ArcGIS Enterprise so you don't need to use Command Prompt or a script (though that's always an option!). To learn more about this process, take a look at this blog.
2. How do I switch my services to use the shared instance pool without having to go through each individual service?
For those using ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 and later, shared instances can help alleviate some of the resource pressure in your ArcGIS Server environment. This is a setting that can be configured for each individual service through ArcGIS Server Manager. If you only have one compatible service that you want to use the shared instance pool, it isn't too much work to make the switch. But if you have tens or hundreds of compatible services, this can be potentially tedious. To avoid such tedium, consider using Python, as explained further here in this blog.
3. I need to make sure all feature classes in my enterprise geodatabase are available as feature layers for my users. Is there an easy way to make sure this happens?
If you're using ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1, you're in luck! This release introduced bulk publishing (sometimes referred to "batch publishing"), where you register your database as a data store item in the Enterprise portal. Map image layers and feature layers are published from this data store connection. You'll also find an option to sync the layers, meaning your existing services will be updated and new feature classes will be published as services. For more details on this new functionality, take a look at this blog.
Thanks for reading, fellow ArcGIS Enterprise groupies! Be sure to check out This Week's Picks - ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro - and stay tuned for the next ArcGIS Enterprise installment coming on Wednesday, November 13th.