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Initialise the processing environment

After the deployment of the platform, and for each new user group (each Prefect instance), the administrators initialise the shared processing environment. The rs-demo repository provides Jupyter notebooks for these tasks: clone it in your JupyterHub session and run them from there.

1. Prefect block env-vars

The env-vars Prefect secret block contains the environment variables shared by all the users of the Prefect instance. The flows read it at startup (see Authentication). Initialise it with the notebooks/init-prefect/env-vars.ipynb notebook, that copies the values of the JupyterHub environment and asks for the others:

Variable Description
RSPY_WEBSITE, RSPY_UAC_CHECK_URL, RSPY_PREFECT_URL URLs of the RS-Python services, of the API Key Manager and of Prefect (copied from JupyterHub).
DASK_GATEWAY_ADDRESS, DASK_GATEWAY_PUBLIC Internal and public addresses of the Dask Gateway (copied from JupyterHub).
JUPYTERHUB_API_TOKEN Token used by the flows and the services to connect to the Dask clusters (Dask Gateway uses the JupyterHub authentication).
TEMPO_ENDPOINT OpenTelemetry endpoint for the traces (copied from JupyterHub).
PREFECT_BUCKET_NAME, PREFECT_BUCKET_FOLDER Temporary bucket and folder used by the flows to share files, e.g. the payload files of the processors.
POSTGRES_HOST, POSTGRES_PORT, POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_PI_DB Connection to the performance indicators database (from the rs_performance_indicator inventory variables).
RSPY_HOST_OSAM Internal URL of the OSAM service.

Each user then creates their own env-vars-<login> block, see Set up your environment. The processing flows delivered by default run on behalf of a technical owner (e.g. copernicus): create its account and its block the same way.

2. Prefect variables

The Prefect variables contain the default settings of the flows:

Variable Content Documentation
processing-storage-configuration Where the processors read and write their inputs, outputs and auxiliary files (S3 buckets, shared disks...). Initialise it with the notebooks/init-prefect/processing-storage-configuration.ipynb notebook, from the template delivered with rs-client-libraries. Storage configuration
<processing_id>-default-setting Default parameters of the processing flows of a processing (s1l0, s1ard, s3l0, s3l1olci, s3l2olci): processor, pipeline, Dask cluster, input and target collections... They are checked against the ProcessorDefaultSettings.schema.json JSON schema. Customise the DPR processing

3. Dask clusters

Start the Dask clusters needed by the flows, see Add and delete Dask clusters. The staging Dask cluster is kept running automatically by the dask-cluster-staging application of rs-server-deployment.

4. Flows and automations

The flows and automations delivered by default are deployed by rs-workflow-deployment. Check that they are visible in the Deployments and Automations pages of the Prefect dashboard.

5. Users

Create the user accounts and assign their permissions, then run the OSAM synchronisation.