The Axinom Mosaic platform includes the Image Service that allows to upload and manage images. Set up the ingest functionality or the option to upload images from a pre-defined blob storage.

Set up Image Service

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Introduction

By default, Image Service is already set up to allow uploading and managing images. However, an extra setup is needed if you wish to use the Ingest functionality with images or programmatically upload images from a pre-defined blob storage using the RabbitMQ EnsureImageExists command.

To configure the required acquisition settings in the Management System, open your Management System UI in a web browser. From the home screen, navigate to Settings and find this section:

Settings
Figure 1. Image acquisition under Settings

Acquisition Profile

These settings define how the Image Service can acquire the source image files when they are referenced by a relative path during Ingest or when using the EnsureImageExists command processing.

Image acquisition profile defines the following properties:

Table 1. Properties common for every storage provider
Property Description

Title

A human-readable profile identifier

Storage Provider

The storage provider type

Root Path

An optional value that is used to define some sub-folder from which the images should be downloaded. If no value is specified, the images are acquired from the root storage location. If a value is specified, it must be a single folder name or a path, e.g folderName/anotherFolder. In this example, the images are acquired relatively to this folder.

Table 2. Azure Storage specific properties
Property Description

Storage Account Name

The username/account name

Storage Account Key

The corresponding password/access key for the storage account above.

Container Name

Which storage container to use. A Storage Account can have multiple Containers used for different purpose, e.g. source-images

Acquisition Profile / Azure
Figure 2. Example Acquisition Profile / Azure
Table 3. AWS specific properties
Property Description

Access Key Id

Access Key Id

Access Key

The corresponding password/access key.

Bucket name

Which bucket to use. Multiple buckets can be accessible with the same access key for different purpose

Region

AWS Region to use for data storage.

Acquisition Profile / AWS
Figure 3. Example Acquisition Profile / AWS
Tip
We recommend to create your storage using Mosaic Hosting Service. Alternatively, you can create storage using Microsoft Azure or AWS.