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Release 2.0⚓︎

Release 2.0 is the first formal release of EOEPCA+, since the last EOEPCA release 1.4 - representing a full refresh of the EOEPCA+ building blocks. EOEPCA+ 2.0 provides many new capabilities, with improved stability - ready for production deployment.

The release is additionally accompanied by supporting materials - including, for each Building Block:

  • Notebooks - that provide a quick demonstration of core capabilities
  • Tutorials - that showcase the building block and its basic installation in a generic reproducible environment

The following table summarises the evolution that EOEPCA+ Release 2.0 represents compared to EOEPCA 1.4.

Note that all EOEPCA+ 2.0 building blocks are integrated with the authentication and authorization approach of the IAM building block

Building Block EOEPCA 1.4 EOEPCA+ 2.0 Migration Strategy
Resource Discovery pycsw (all resource types) pycsw (resource discovery)
Catalogue for all resource types supporting Open Science
Key enhancements:
- Latest OGC API Records, incl. transactions
- Latest STAC API, incl. transactions, CEOS best practice
eoAPI (data discovery)
Data discovery, access and visualisation (see also Data Access)
Key capabilities:
- Latest STAC API, incl. transactions, CEOS best practice
pycsw
Upgrade

eoAPI
New installation
Data Access EOxServer eoAPI
Data discovery, access and visualisation (see also Data Discovery)
Key capabilities:
- Latest STAC API
- TiTiler-PgSTAC raster tiling service (XYZ/OGC-WMTS, OGC API Tiles, COG dynamic tiling, Virtual mosaics)
- TiPg vector tiling service (OGC Features and Tiles)
- MultiDimensional dataset support via Xarray
- Scalable in production
Additional
- STAC Browser for data discovery and visualisation
- STAC Manager for metadata management
New installation
Resource Registration Registration API (bespoke) Registration API
API for registration of resources into discovery and access services.
- API via pygeoapi (OGC API Processes) for resource register and deregister
- Integrates with Resource Discovery and Data Access
- Resource types for reproducible science

Registration Harvester
Automated harvesting of datasets (and other resources) from external providers into discovery and access services.
- Flowable BPMN Engine - extensible workflows for harvesting
Example workflows…
- Harvest Landsat data from USGS
- Harvest Sentinel data from CDSE
Generic workflows…
- Harvest from static STAC catalog
- Harvest from STAC API
New installation
Workspace Workspace API (bespoke)

Workspace Provisioning
Helm templates for workspace definitions
Isolated environments for users/teams providing storage/compute for data management, processing and collaboration.
Key capabilities:
- Workspace API preserved for workspace management
- Alternative declarative approach using Kubernetes custom resources
- Workspace provisioning via declarative Crossplane pipelines
- Object storage provisioning (declarative and via UI), with multiple buckets per workspace
- Workspace UI providing users an interactive web interface with: Terminal, Code Editor, Storage Browser
- Workspace UI provides user-controlled management of permissions and sharing, with RBAC approach
- Automated rollover of bucket credentials
- vCluster providing dedicated, isolated Kubernetes cluster for workspace user service provisioning
Workspace hibernate and auto-suspend
New installation
Datacube Access n/a Ensuring support for datacube semantics in EOEPCA+ BBs.
Key Capabilities:
- Filtered discovery and access to multi-dimensional datasets
- STAC Best Practice for Datacubes
New installation
Processing
OGC API Processes
ZOO-Project with Calrissian - Kubernetes Runner User-defined processing following OGC API Processes standard
ZOO-Project (common)
Key enhancements:
- Improved job log management
- OGC types in CWL for inputs/outputs (cwl2ogc)
- Zoo pod auto-scaling
- New Zoo web UI
- Many stability, efficiency and maintainability improvements
- Unit tests for OGC-AP Patterns (see below)

Kubernetes Runner (Calrissian)
Key enhancements:
- GPU resource requirements in CWL and node selectors
- Jobs can use existing namespace
- Fully reworked Calrissian integration (new eoap-cwlwrap)

HPC Runner (Toil)
- Zoo integration with Toil for HPC CWL execution

Additional
- Resources & Guides for Application Packages
- Documented Application Package patterns, including datacubes
- OGC API Processes python client
Zoo-Calrissian
Upgrade

Zoo-Toil
New Installation
Processing
openEO
n/a API providing a simple/unified approach for connection to Earth Observation platforms
openeo-geotrellis
Key capabilities:
- openEO API
- Predefined processing specifications for portable applications
- Dataset load via STAC - with many enhancements for compatibility and datacube support
- Support for running CWL/OGC-App-Package
- Many process improvements: geojson, spatial aggregation, bbox filter, …
- Improvements for federation

openEO Client / Web Editor
Key enhancements:
- Support for running CWL/OGC-App-Package
New Installation
Application Hub JupyterHub-based Web-based tooling for interactive analysis and development
JupyterHub-based
Key enhancements:
- Support for init containers, and user image pull secrets
- Configuration generator tool - to tailor available applications
- Dask Gateway support
- Optional harbor for image proxy cache
- CSI annotations for persistent volume claims
Upgrade
IAM Keycloak with gogatekeeper and Identity API Authenticated user identity, and authorisation of access to platform resources
Keycloak with APISIX, Open Policy Agent and Crossplane
Key enhancements:
- Keycloak as for EOEPCA 1.4, with upgraded version
- Identity API deprecated in favour of Crossplane CRDs
- Crossplane Keycloak Provider for declarative configuration of Keycloak
- Open Policy Agent as policy engine
- APISIX (ingress) for policy enforcement - with plugins for Authn (OIDC) and Authz (UMA and OPA)
- Integration with other EOEPCA+ BBs for policy enforcement and resource sharing
New Installation
Data Gateway n/a EODAG
Capability for accessing the data offering of an extensible set of data providers and datasets
Key enhancements:
- STAC-formatted metadata representation
- Integrate FedEO CEOS STAC for CCI data
- Support STAC serialise/deserialise
- STAC metadata augmentation via xarray
n/a
Application Quality n/a Application Quality supports the transition of scientific algorithms to production-grade workflows. This is achieved through automated pipelines that execute tooling which verifies workflow quality against industry best practices for coding and security.
- Python code quality checks
- Best practices for Jupyter Notebooks
- OGC Application Package validation
- Trivy vulerability scanning
- Grafan dashboards and reports for quality outcomes
New Installation

For more details please refer to the documentation for each component, or ask the EOEPCA team for support - in particular if you are migrating an existing deployment to EOEPCA+ 2.0.