ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure is an application you install on your local Microsoft Windows machine to deploy ArcGIS Enterprise and stand-alone ArcGIS Server sites on Microsoft Azure. It helps you to extend your Azure implementation to include ArcGIS.
You can download ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure and install it if you have an ArcGIS Enterprise license.
The following sections describe what items you can create on Azure using ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure.
ArcGIS Enterprise deployment items
When you create base ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure using Cloud Builder, you get the following components:
- Portal for ArcGIS
- A GIS Server site to act as the portal's hosting server.
- A relational data store created through ArcGIS Data Store.
- An Azure Application gateway.
The number of virtual machines in a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment on Azure varies based on choices you make when you create the deployment.
ArcGIS Server deployment items
Cloud Builder allows you to create single-machine ArcGIS Server sites or multiple-machine sites. You can also add machines to the sites you create using Cloud Builder.
You have several ArcGIS Server site options, depending on what role you require the site to fill. Any of the following types of ArcGIS Server sites can be added to an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment. A few can be created as a stand-alone site.
ArcGIS GeoEvent Server
You can create stand-alone ArcGIS GeoEvent Server sites or federate them with an ArcGIS Enterprise portal on Azure to use real-time data feeds in your organization.
Your ArcGIS GeoEvent Server sites on Azure can contain only one virtual machine.
ArcGIS GIS Server
When you deploy ArcGIS Enterprise, you automatically get an ArcGIS GIS Server site as the portal's hosting server. You can create additional GIS Server sites to be used as stand-alone sites, or federate them with an ArcGIS Enterprise portal on Azure.
You can register a Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, or SQL Server with the GIS Server site when you create the site. When added at site creation time, the database always contains a geodatabase.
Alternatively, you can add one or more registered databases to an existing GIS Server site. When you use this method, you choose whether the database contains a geodatabase.
ArcGIS Knowledge Server
An ArcGIS Knowledge Server site is a required component of ArcGIS Knowledge.
Cloud Builder federates the ArcGIS Knowledge Server site with the ArcGIS Enterprise portal on Azure that you specify.
The ArcGIS Enterprise deployment must include a graph store to use ArcGIS Knowledge Server.
ArcGIS Image Server
You can create a stand-alone ArcGIS Image Server site or federate it with an ArcGIS Enterprise portal on Azure to publish image services from mosaic datasets.
If you federate the ArcGIS Image Server site with a portal, you can set the site as the portal's raster analysis server or the portal's image hosting server.
You must specify an Azure Blob Storage location to use as a user-managed raster data store when you create an ArcGIS Image Server site using Cloud Builder.
ArcGIS Mission Server
An ArcGIS Mission Server site is a required component of ArcGIS Mission that facilitates communication between ArcGIS Mission Manager and ArcGIS Mission Responder.
Cloud Builder federates the ArcGIS Mission Server site with the ArcGIS Enterprise portal. You must have a spatiotemporal big data store in your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to use ArcGIS Mission Server.
ArcGIS Notebook Server
An ArcGIS Notebook Server site allows you to create ArcGIS Notebooks. Use Python with notebooks for spatial analysis and data science workflows and also to automate administrative tasks.
ArcGIS Notebook Server sites are always federated with an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, and require Docker on the ArcGIS Notebook Server instances.
ArcGIS Workflow Manager Server
An ArcGIS Workflow Manager Server site is a required component of ArcGIS Workflow Manager, which uses workflow diagrams and jobs to automate GIS workflows and manage GIS tasks.
Cloud Builder federates the ArcGIS Workflow Manager Server site with the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment on Azure that you specify.