ERDDAP 2.30.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

ERDDAP on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

ERDDAP is a scientific data server from NOAA's NMFS SWFSC Environmental Research Division. It sits in front of heterogeneous gridded and tabular datasets and gives all of them one consistent web interface and REST API, so a user or a script can request any subset of any dataset and get it back as CSV, JSON, netCDF, an HTML table, an image, a graph or a map. It is the de facto standard data server in oceanography, used by NOAA, IOOS, EMODnet, CSIRO and IFREMER to publish their data.

This image runs ERDDAP 2.30.0 from the official upstream release on Apache Tomcat 10.1 under OpenJDK 25, both taken from Ubuntu's own package archive so they keep receiving security updates on your VM. Upstream's instructions ask administrators to unpack a vendor JRE tarball; this image deliberately does not, because a hand-unpacked runtime is never patched again. Tomcat is bound to loopback and fronted by nginx on port 80.

The catalogue works the moment the VM boots, with no external service involved. Upstream's example configuration points at datasets that live on other people's servers, so a stock install shows an empty or broken list whenever those hosts are unreachable. This image instead ships datasets whose data is already on the VM: the ETOPO1 global relief grid that is bundled inside ERDDAP itself, in both longitude conventions, plus a small sample time series so the tabular half of the server is demonstrated too.

What is included

• ERDDAP 2.30.0 on Apache Tomcat 10.1 under OpenJDK 25, both from Ubuntu's archive so security updates keep flowing to the whole stack
• A working catalogue on first boot, with no dependency on any third-party server
• The ETOPO1 one arc-minute global relief grid from NOAA NCEI, ready to subset and map
• Tomcat bound to loopback behind nginx on port 80, with unauthenticated health and readiness probes for load balancer checks
• The administrative pages - status, Prometheus metrics, dataset reload and subscriptions - behind a password generated uniquely for every VM
• A per-VM dataset flag key replacing the placeholder published in ERDDAP's distribution
• ERDDAP's subscription system, remote dataset subscription, data provider form and diagnostic phone-home all switched off by default
• Configuration, cache and served data on a dedicated 32 GiB Azure data disk
• A JVM heap sized from the VM's own memory on every first boot, so one image is correct on whatever size you launch
• Fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with unattended security updates enabled
• 24/7 cloudimg support

Licensing

ERDDAP is a work of the United States Government released into the public domain under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal dedication. No licence key, subscription or registration is required. The cloudimg charge covers packaging, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 support.

This image is produced by cloudimg and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by NOAA.