Deploy Tileserver

Deploy Tileserver (Snowflake vector-tile demo)

One command stands up a three-arm vector-tile demo over a single dataset and is the primary installation path for it. It is idempotent and self-owning: it detect-reuse-else-creates the Snowflake Postgres + PostGIS instance, the SPCS infrastructure, and the Martin service, so the stack installs and runs without any other skill.

Scope: the three arms

The viewer is Martin's built-in Web UI (--webui enable-for-all) on the public ingress - its Inspect Tile Source page renders arms 1 and 2 over a basemap.

Execution Rules

1. All relative paths are relative to this skill's directory (.cortex/skills/deploy-tileserver/).
2. Replace <connection> with the active Snowflake CLI connection (snow connection list).
3. The installer is idempotent: re-running detects existing objects and reuses them. Use SKIP_* env vars only to shorten re-runs.
4. Every session sets the query_tag and every object created carries the oss-deploy-tileserver COMMENT tag (see references/conventions.md).
5. After a run the installer writes a friction log to logs/.

Prerequisites

• Container runtime (Docker or Podman) with its daemon running (preflight fails fast, before any billable infra, if the daemon is down); Python 3 with snowflake-connector-python, psycopg2, and pmtiles; Snowflake CLI (snow).
  • The installer's preflight auto-installs any missing Python deps (psycopg2-binary, pmtiles, snowflake-connector-python). Set SKIP_DEP_INSTALL=1 to only verify and fail fast instead. To install by hand: pip install snowflake-connector-python psycopg2-binary pmtiles.
• export SNOWFLAKE_CLI_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=true.
• An active connection whose role can create Postgres instances, databases, schemas, image repositories, compute pools, network rules, external access integrations, secrets, and services (see ## Required Privileges).
• A polygon source dataset in core Snowflake. By default the installer auto-detects the first accessible of its known free datasets (Overture Maps - Divisions, then CARTO Academy US States) and snapshots it into an owned TILESERVER.CORE.SOURCE_FEATURES table early, so a Marketplace share that is missing or lapses mid-run cannot break the install. Preflight fails fast (before any billable infra) if none is reachable. Override with --source-table <fqn> / SOURCE_PROFILE.

One-command install

bash .cortex/skills/deploy-tileserver/scripts/install_tileserver.sh --connection <connection>

The orchestrator runs these layers in order (detect-and-reuse-else-create throughout):

0. Preflight - tools, container runtime, connection, account.
1. Postgres + PostGIS - scripts/provision_pg.py reuses an instance (or CREATEs one - billable), installs PostGIS, wires the SPCS egress allowlist, and emits the DATABASE_URL. See references/postgres.md.
2. SPCS infra - references/infra.sql creates TILESERVER.CORE + image repo, compute pool, spec/tiles stages, and the basemap EAI; the orchestrator then creates the PG_URL secret and the TILESERVER_PG_EAI egress integration for the resolved host.
3. Data - scripts/build_source_snapshot.py resolves + CTASs the source into the owned TILESERVER.CORE.SOURCE_FEATURES snapshot, then scripts/sync_to_pg.py loads it into public.features with a GiST index.
4. MVT function - applies sql/features_mvt.sql (the arm-1 function source).
5. Martin image - scripts/build_push_martin.sh publishes the Martin image to the SPCS repo.
6. PMTiles bake (default on) - scripts/bake_pmtiles.sh exports GeoJSONL, builds tippecanoe, bakes, converts to PMTiles, and uploads to the TILES stage. Skip with --no-pmtiles. See references/pmtiles-bake.md.
7. Service - renders spcs/martin_service.yaml.tmpl, uploads it, and CREATE/ALTERs TILESERVER.CORE.MARTIN with both EAIs and the Web UI. See references/viewer.md.
8. Verify - checks features_mvt(0,0,0) length and prints the public ingress URL.

After a successful install (what to hand the user)

The installer ends with a ==== banner containing the App URL (the public ingress) and numbered next steps. Always relay that to the user - lead with the URL, then the steps. If running this skill for someone, your closing message should mirror the banner:

1. App URL - the https://<host>.snowflakecomputing.app ingress the installer printed. Open it and sign in with Snowflake credentials (the endpoint is auth-gated).
2. In Martin's Web UI, open Inspect Tile Source and pick features_mvt (arm 1, live ST_AsMVT) or features_pmt (arm 2, precomputed PMTiles); pan/zoom over the US.
3. Tiles are served at /catalog, /features_mvt/{z}/{x}/{y}, /features_pmt/{z}/{x}/{y}.
4. Arm 3 (H3, no server): SNOWFLAKE_CONNECTION=<conn> python3 scripts/export_h3.py, then open viewer/index.html locally for the deck.gl H3 layer.
5. Remind them to tear down when done (billing): teardown_tileserver.sh --connection <conn> --drop-pg.

If the banner shows the URL as "not resolved yet", the endpoint is still provisioning (a few minutes after RUNNING); tell the user to re-fetch it with SHOW ENDPOINTS IN SERVICE TILESERVER.CORE.MARTIN; and then follow the same steps.

Configuration

Required Privileges

ACCOUNTADMIN satisfies all of the above but is not required if the above are granted to a custom role.

Cleanup

Use the teardown script - it drops objects in the correct dependency order (service -> optional PG instance -> network policy -> EAIs -> compute pool -> database), which hand SQL gets wrong (see references/troubleshooting.md):

# Keep the (billable) Postgres instance for fast re-installs:
bash .cortex/skills/deploy-tileserver/scripts/teardown_tileserver.sh --connection <connection>

# Full teardown, including the Postgres instance:
bash .cortex/skills/deploy-tileserver/scripts/teardown_tileserver.sh --connection <connection> --drop-pg

Equivalent manual SQL (ordering matters - the in-schema PG_INGRESS rule stays bound to TILESERVER_PG_POLICY until the policy is emptied/dropped, so DROP DATABASE fails otherwise):

ALTER SESSION SET query_tag = '{"origin":"sf_sit-is","name":"oss-deploy-tileserver","version":{"major":1,"minor":0},"attributes":{"is_quickstart":1,"source":"sql"}}';

DROP SERVICE IF EXISTS TILESERVER.CORE.MARTIN;
-- The Postgres instance is billable and may be shared; drop only on a full teardown.
-- Quote the name if it was created as a lowercase identifier:
-- DROP POSTGRES INSTANCE IF EXISTS TILESERVER_PG;
ALTER NETWORK POLICY TILESERVER_PG_POLICY SET ALLOWED_NETWORK_RULE_LIST=();
DROP NETWORK POLICY IF EXISTS TILESERVER_PG_POLICY;
DROP EXTERNAL ACCESS INTEGRATION IF EXISTS TILESERVER_PG_EAI;
DROP EXTERNAL ACCESS INTEGRATION IF EXISTS TILESERVER_BASEMAP_EAI;
DROP COMPUTE POOL IF EXISTS TILESERVER_POOL;
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS TILESERVER;   -- image repo, stages, secret, network rules, MVT metadata

All objects carry the oss-deploy-tileserver COMMENT tag for discovery (see references/conventions.md).

References

• references/conventions.md - query_tag + COMMENT tracking literals.
• references/infra.sql - detect-reuse-else-create SPCS infra DDL.
• references/postgres.md - PG instance + PostGIS + the SPCS egress /24 fix.
• references/pmtiles-bake.md - the tippecanoe bake pipeline and its gotchas.
• references/viewer.md - Martin Web UI + the basemap CSP/EAI fix.
• references/troubleshooting.md - crash-loops, bad-PMTiles magic, flaky reconnects, image-push hangs.